Internships

Since 2017 ECCI and SAGES facilitated 13 student internships.

100% of students learned beneficial new skills during the SAGES Innovation programme.

100% found the internship useful for future career prospects.

‘A great process to integrate academic and private business insights.’ Industry placement

‘The interns skill-set and previous experience was very well suited to our business activities and became a great asset to the company.’ Industry placement

‘This has made me think differently about how I should and will present my research.’ SAGES PhD student

Industry placements

2019/20
• Futures Forum
• Geospatial Data
• Landscapes as Carbon Sinks
• Plant Sutherland
• Argyll & the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust

2018/19

• ECCi
• ClimateXChange
• One Cherry
• Trade in Space
• SPICe
• ClimateXChange
• Comrie Croft
• RESAS

2017/18

• Space Intelligence – provides satellite data analysis and maps of forests, deforestation and forest degradation
• WHRL – Highly efficient waste heat recovery technology that recovers heat energy lost by industrial refrigeration systems
• East Africa Sisal Company – Innovative ethical business using sisal fibre to develop sustainable materials
• Carbomap – forest mapping specialists that apply state-of-the-art science to the problem of measuring and mapping the world’s forest carbon
• ClimateXChange – Scotland’s centre of expertise connecting climate change research and policy

Could you take part in an industry placement? Contact Rosanna Crawford Harvey, ECCI Project Officer.