Meredith Arterburn '24, biology major and finance minor, spent the summer of 2022 interning at Twelve Bio, a biotech startup based in the BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Danmarks førerpositioner på blandt andet bæredygtighed, bioteknologi og work-life balance tiltrækker et stigende antal studerende fra Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) i Boston.
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Students at the leading university MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) can find internships at just about any company almost anywhere in the world. Engineering intern Amber Velez wanted to work for a green energy company, and she wanted to work in Denmark.
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For Roar Bovim, CEO and founder of LIvingroom Analytics, connecting with an MIT intern has been a perfect way to expand Artificial Intelligence capabilities of their platform. After being matched with Brian Li through MIT-Denmark, Roar quickly found that the MIT sophomore had insight, work ethics and problem-solving skills comparable to PHD-level Danes he was used to working with.
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We are very proud to share the new digital folder, created with our partner the Confederation of Danish Industry (Dansk Industri) showcasing the MIT-Denmark collaboration. Here, you can learn more about hosting an MIT student for an internship and hear from some of the Danish companies who have joined the program in the past.
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What can you do when a global pandemic halts travel and MIT students can no longer join companies for internships in Denmark? Develop an innovative solution to bring internships online, of course!
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How might we empower health analytics for sustainable aquaculture with sensor networks and Artificial Intelligence? Our MISTI program intern Yujie Wang has been working with this exact question through January 2021, contacting and interviewing stakeholders within the aquaculture industry.
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This past Thursday marked the end of the Green Campus Challenge, hosted by MIT-Denmark and the Confederation of Danish Industry (Dansk Industri).
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During the fall semester of 2020, Caleb Harris, a Junior in Course 6-9, Computation and Cognition, participated in a remote internship with Mindpool, a startup based in Copenhagen. He and his internship supervisor, Christian Charity, answered a few questions about the experience.
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The MISTI Career Conversations: Energy program serves as an innovative pivot from international internships to a virtual seminar series.
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Over the last month and a half, I’ve interned remotely for the Danish green industrial park (“industrial symbiosis”) startup, GreenLab. GreenLab is developing a localized industrial park that utilizes clean energy (wind and solar power) as well as waste streams (e.g. local biomass and plastic waste) to produce useful products such as animal feed, synthetic fuels, and other to-be-unveiled products while promoting growth in more rural and undeveloped areas.
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It’s been almost a year since I first started thinking about going to Denmark. I was excited by the learning opportunity that conducting research abroad posed and thought it would be a fun and memorable way to complete my MIT experience. These thoughts turned out to be true—although I didn’t anticipate that my half-way point would almost perfectly coincide with the beginning of COVID-19 shutdowns.
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2020 did not go as planned.
While the whole world panicked over the highly contagious coronavirus and countries shut down their borders, it was only to be expected that my plans for the year would fall apart. Within a span of two days, my meticulously planned daily schedule flew out the window.
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Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Share ideas early and often, and surround yourself with people willing to help you take chances.
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I see Danish design everywhere I go in Copenhagen: women wear minimalist, flowy dresses paired with comfortable sneakers; the metro involves a simple tap in and tap out system with stands placed strategically all along the platforms to avoid traffic at entrances and exits; my engineering team uses an organized online task management board to streamline operations.
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