IAESTE Switzerland

IAESTE Switzerland


Weinbergstrasse 41
8006 Zürich

Phone: +41 43 244 93 13
Fax: +41 43 244 93 39


Bd de Grancy 37
1006 Lausanne

Phone: +41 21 601 79 93
Fax: +41 21 617 87 79

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Internship placements worldwide

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IAESTE Switzerland administers the search for qualified foreign trainees for about 100 companies and universities in Switzerland each year. A service which is free of charge for the employers.

You as a company can benefit from our worldwide network, as our trainees

  • are students studying at technical or natural science faculties from more than 80 countries
  • are at the cutting edge of science
  • carry the name of your company out into the world and can become important business partners in the future
  • have the neccessary qualifications to fulfil challenging tasks or to take part in advanced research projects
  • enable your employees to use their foreign language skills and offer an intercultural exchange
  • are taken care of by our local committees

For every internship we can offer to a foreign trainee, a Swiss student has the possibility to do an internship abroad. By offering one internship you enable two students to gain valuable practical experience abroad and broaden their horizons.

Open Offers

Open Offers are internships that the Swiss employers offer for the IAESTE exchange and for which we place a suitable student from another IAESTE member country.  The administrative work is handled by IAESTE free of charge.

Reserved Offers

Reserved Offers are internships that have not been placed by IAESTE as part of a 1:1 exchange. Swiss migration law stipulates that trainees from Non-European countries, Bulgaria, Romania as well the EU-8 states, who have applied for an internship directly at a company, must apply for the visa/work permit through an exchange organisation such as IAESTE.