Internships

For students: The list below shows all the internship offers that have been posted on the RISC platform. The offers are not reserved for cog-SUP students. Also, cog-SUP students are not restricted to this list when it comes to chosing an internship topic. Thus, in addition to consulting this list, please consider spontaneously contacting the members of the pedagogical team with whom you share scientific interests.

For researchers: To publish your internship proposal, please go to this webpage: https://risc.cnrs.fr/deposer-un-echo and post your internship proposition. Be careful to include the etiquettes « stage » and « master ». It will then automatically become available on our internships webpage.

Before the beginning of a Master 2^nd year internship: for all cog-SUP tracks, we ask M2 candidates to submit a short description (half a page) of their planned M2 internship before the summer, as a condition to enter the M2 level. This enables students to avoid loosing a few weeks searching for their research topic and question during the internship itself, which is in the end rather short (5 months from February to June). This also permits to spend 1 day per week during the 1st semester dedicated to the bibliograhical preparation of the internship, and the clarification of the research question and forseen methods and statistical tests. At the end of 1st semester of M2, the required exercise for the students is to submit a preregistration document to the directors, and present for 8 min in front of a jury at the end of January. This helps student learn more about the reproducibility crisis, and good practices to overcome it. An exception is for industrial internships, since we know that companies and start-ups prefer most of the time not to agree to hire interns many months in advance.

Specific to philosophy students: M2 philosophy students can either do a classic internship or a Master’s dissertation. In the latter case, students will be asked to write a 40-80 page dissertation on a research question that has first been identified and specified with the help of the supervisor. The dissertation includes the state of the art and suggestions of possible answers to the research question. It may count as a preliminary work for a PhD thesis.