Connecting academic excellence with industry ambition to empower innovation.
MatchMinds connects ETH Zurich’s talented students with forward-thinking companies and organisations, offering internships, master thesis projects with hands-on work experiences.
These collaborations spark fresh ideas, impact, and mutual success while helping companies drive innovation and giving students valuable, real-world experience
Why join?
Benefits for companies
Collaborate with top talent to drive your innovations forward
Access Switzerland's bright talents
Solve your challenges with our students
Accelerate innovation by bringing in fresh ideas and minds
Benefits for students
Partner with the right company to bring your learning to life.
Gain real-world industry experience
Expand your professional network
Enrich your studies through practical innovation
Opportunities examples
Software Engineering Internship
Join UBS for a summer internship in software engineering.
Electrical Engineering Internship
Join ABB for a hands-on internship in electrical engineering.
Sustainability Research Project
Collaborate with planted on a research project focused on sustainable food systems.
Register to see all opportunities
Success story
«Working with ETH Zurich talent brought fresh ideas and delivered real innovation – exactly what our business needed.»
Anna Keller
Project Owner at Swiss Tech AG
Frequently asked questions
MatchMinds is for companies and organisations that wish to collaborate with ETH Zurich students. The term "company" includes companies, organization, spin-offs, start-ups etc in the private and public sector.
Note: It does not include other universities. If you are from another university and wish to collaborate with ETH Zurich please access this website
As a Company: Use MatchMinds to advertise open internship or project ideas and find matching students an or ETH Zurich researchers.
As an ETH Zurich Student: Use MatchMinds to access adverts for internships and thesis, which take place in collaboration with companies.
As an ETH Zurich researcher: Use MatchMinds to support a student and get inspired by the available opportunities.
MatchMinds offers a place to advertise internship and thesis opportunities. The advertisements will be shown to suitable ETH Zurich students and researchers who are on the platform.
Students will be able to apply to advertisements. The company can choose to handle the application process in their own application tool or on MatchMinds.
Once the final participant are matched, the contractual details can be handled on the platform. A contract template with certain options is available for each collaboration type, where download and upload are easy to use.
ETH Zurich students and researchers can sign-in with their ETH-Login credentials.
As a Company: Companies must first register their company. Once the company is listed (this might take some time) company members can add their profile and create a log-in using their company's E-Mail address. They also create a password with which they can enter the MatchMinds platform.
MatchMinds offers the collaboration on the basis of internships and theses. These can be Master's, Bachelor's or Semester's theses.