Connecting academic excellence with industry ambition to empower innovation.
MatchMinds connects ETH Zurich’s talented students with forward-thinking companies and organisations, offering internships and 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
Start your journey today and forge meaningful connections that propel you forward.
Why join?
Access Switzerland's bright talents
Solve your challenges with our students
Accelerate innovation by bringing in fresh ideas and minds
Gain real-world industry experience
Expand your professional network
Enrich your studies through practical innovation
Opportunities examples
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Success story
From a behavioral economics perspective, the main barriers between industry and academia are operational, not substantive. MatchMinds reduces exactly those barriers and makes access to ETH talent structured and low-threshold for Swiss companies for the first time.
Gerhard Fehr
Managing Partner, FehrAdvice & Partners 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.
For internships, for example, students can apply directly to the 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 thesis. These can be a Master's, Bachelor's or semester thesis.