Opportunities for young scientists

Learning in a playful way
Understanding the basic principles of current research is best done in a playful way. Here, children are dancing with a robot that they have programmed themselves.
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Girls’ Day
School classes visit the DLR_School_Labs every day. In addition, many of the DLR sites open their doors on Girls’ Day, giving girls and young women an insight into technical professions.
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Fascinated by research
Experiencing the fascination of research for yourself, while learning a lot of new things and maybe even discovering possibilities for your own future career – that is what the DLR_School_Labs are all about.
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Are we alone in the universe? Or is there intelligent life on other planets as well? What will the aeroplanes and cars of the future look like? What forms of energy will we use in the future when the oil runs out? DLR is working on these and many other exciting questions in its focus areas aeronautics, space, transportation, and energy research. DLR's research institutes are spread across all parts of Germany. They operate wind tunnels and solar installations, control centres, simulators, and large test stands for rocket engines.

DLR's research institutes are spread all over Germany. They operate wind tunnels and solar power plants, control centres, simulators and large test stands for rocket engines. The expertise of the approximately 11,000 employees is varied: they deal with engineering sciences, biology and medicine, or work at DLR as experts in climate research, propulsion technology, robotics and more.

DLR is committed to promoting young talent in many ways:In order to make the fascinating research projects and interesting job descriptions known to young people, DLR has a variety of offers for schools. For example, school classes can visit DLR's school laboratories, the DLR_School_Labs, and carry out experiments themselves. The DLR_School_Labs have now introduced more than 450,000 children and young people to the 'fascinating world of research'.

DLR also offers the possibility to apply for a career-oriented school internship. DLR also regularly organises competitions for schoolchildren and produces didactic resources for exciting lessons. Our youth portal DLR_next invites children and young people on a virtual journey into the world of research: with easy-to-understand information, inspiring pictures and videos, and lots of fun! DLR is also involved in many campaigns such as Jugend forscht (Youth Research) or Girls' Day.

But DLR is not only a large research institution with exciting projects in the fields of aeronautics, space, energy and transport research, as well as digitalisation and security. It is also active as a space agency - in this capacity it also organises a number of other activities for schools.

DLR_School_Labs

In our DLR_School_Labs, sec­ondary and high school pupils can get to grips with the prac­ti­cal side of sci­ence and en­gi­neer­ing through in­ter­est­ing ex­per­i­ments - mo­ti­vat­ing them to take these sub­jects fur­ther.

Traineeships

In­for­ma­tion about trainee­ship ap­pli­ca­tions - We are pleased about your in­ter­est in our work. Please send us your ap­pli­ca­tion doc­u­ments and keep the fol­low­ing in mind.

Student and youth projects

The 'stu­dent and youth projects' part of Ger­many’s Na­tion­al Space Pro­gramme aims to in­tro­duce stu­dents and young peo­ple to the re­sults of space re­search and, more im­por­tant­ly, to their ap­pli­ca­tion to im­por­tant gov­ern­men­tal, sci­en­tif­ic, and eco­nom­ic prob­lems, us­ing specif­i­cal­ly se­lect­ed ex­am­ples and ar­eas of in­ter­est.

Types of entry

Classical training

What's special about an apprenticeship at DLR? That you can develop and try things out.

Dual study programme

Combining theory and practice - and experiencing cutting-edge research at first hand? DLR offers dual study programmes!

Multimedia

Fascinating world of research
This video refers to children and young people: The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is one of Europe's largest and most modern research institutions. Here is where the aircraft of the future are being developed and pilots trained, rocket engines tested and images of distant planets analysed. In addition, ca. 8,000 DLR staff members are investigating next-generation high-speed trains, environmentally responsible methods of generating enery, and much more. We are happy to pass on to young people our enthusiasm for all these fascinating topics.

Fascinating world of research

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Fascinating world of research
This video refers to children and young people: The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is one of Europe's largest and most modern research institutions. Here is where the aircraft of the future are being developed and pilots trained, rocket engines tested and images of distant planets analysed. In addition, ca. 8,000 DLR staff members are investigating next-generation high-speed trains, environmentally responsible methods of generating enery, and much more. We are happy to pass on to young people our enthusiasm for all these fascinating topics.
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Links

Jugend foscht

Ju­gend forscht en­cour­ages and sup­ports tal­ent­ed achiev­ers in the ar­eas of sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, en­gi­neer­ing and math­e­mat­ics (STEM). It seeks to in­spire young peo­ple to be­come in­volved for the long term, and, af­ter the con­test, to help them with their ca­reers.

space­club_Berlin

The space­club_berlin is a place for and by young peo­ple at or­bitall, of the FEZ Berlin, in co­op­er­a­tion with DLR, sev­er­al points as aerospace, as­tron­o­my and nat­u­ral sci­ence are just some which we are deal­ing with.

Skyfuture

sky­fu­ture.de is the on­line por­tal for young tal­ents in the avi­a­tion and aerospace in­dus­try of Ger­many. Here, a net­work of com­pa­nies and or­ga­ni­za­tions in­forms about pos­si­ble op­por­tu­ni­ties of vo­ca­tion­al train­ings or cours­es of stud­ies with­in the sec­tor.

Ger­man As­tro­nom­i­cal So­ci­ety

The Ger­man As­tro­nom­i­cal So­ci­ety (As­tronomis­che Gesellschaft, or AG for short) is the pro­fes­sion­al Ger­man na­tion­al as­so­ci­a­tion for as­tron­o­my and as­tro­physics.

Re­mote sens­ing in Schools

The project 'Re­mote Sens­ing in Schools' (FIS = Ger­man acronym) is run by the Re­mote Sens­ing Re­search Group of the De­part­ment of Ge­og­ra­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bonn.

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Contact

Christoph Pawek

Ed­u­ca­tion, Out­reach
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Rutherfordstraße 2, 12489 Berlin