Research Grants AI Internship (100%, 4-6 months)

Join our AI team as a **Research Grants AI Intern** and contribute to building intelligent systems that connect grant data, research publications, and researcher profiles. This internship offers hands-on experience in real-world data acquisition, NLP-driven entity matching, and research intelligence workflows within academic publishing. **As part of our commitment to fostering a collaborative team environment, this role requires working fully on-site.** **Tasks \& Responsibilities** * Build workflows for crawling, extracting, and indexing grant information from public sources; * Normalize and structure grant metadata (e.g., funding agency, grant IDs, investigators, timelines, keywords); * Develop and implement text-mining and metadata-matching methods to link grants with publications; * Integrate grant data into internal databases and graph-based systems; * Support the exploration of predictive models to identify research trends and funding opportunities; * Contribute to potential integrations with internal analytics and editorial tools. **Requirements** * Currently pursuing or recently completed a BSc or MSc in Data Science, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, or a related field; * Initial practical experience in data acquisition, data processing, AI, or related areas; * Basic knowledge of web scraping, API integration, and Python for data-intensive applications; * Understanding of AI principles and interest in NLP or text mining; * Familiarity with databases and data modeling concepts; * Fluent in English (minimum B2\); * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; * Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders; * Comfortable working both independently and in an agile team environment; * Curiosity about academic publishing and research ecosystems; * Proactive mindset and adaptability in a dynamic setting. **What We Offer** * The opportunity to contribute to the academic/scientific community; * Flexible working hours; * Team bond strengthening through team-building events; * Professional growth opportunities with our global training system; * Working in a collaborative and socially responsible team; * Company retreat facility; * Full-coverage insurance for accidents/daily sickness; * Prime location near Basel train station and city center; * And more... **If you are interested in this position, we look forward to receiving:** * A motivational letter (EN) that briefly describes your motivations for joining MDPI * A resume (EN) including personal information, past \& current education, * Copy of ID and Diplomas * If available: reference letters and certificates. **About MDPI** A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities **since 1996** . Our mission is to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. We operate more than **400 diverse, peer-reviewed** , open access journals supported by over **66,000 academic editors** . We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is openly and broadly available. **MDPI is headquartered in Switzerland with additional offices in Europe, Asia and North America** . We are committed to ensuring that high quality research is made available as quickly as possible. We also support sustainability projects, with sustainability as a key theme in many journals and through the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. **Initiatives** At MDPI, we develop and maintain various platforms in order to better serve the scientific community. Please find here-below a list of our main platforms: https://www.mdpi.com https://www.mdpi.com/books/ https://sciprofiles.com https://sciforum.net https://www.scilit.net https://www.preprints.org https://encyclopedia.pub