Momentum – internship for students
The aim of the internship programme is to introduce students to alternative career paths where they can utilise their knowledge and competence. Companies get access to smart, hard-working students who are interested in learning and contributing.
What is Momentum?
Momentum is a student internship program created by students for students at the UiO Growth House UiO's innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology.
The Growth House has a strategy to create a robust and sustainable engagement around student innovation for all students at UiO. Momentum has been established as part of the student innovation hub UiO iHub at Oslo Science Park.
Momentum is a collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Educational Sciences, and the Faculty of Humanities. The collaboration is run through student engagement in the student associations for Medical Innovation (SMI), Pharmaceutical Innovation (SFI) and Educational Scientific Innovation (SUI).
Participating Companies 2025
The following companies are offering internships through Momentum in 2025.
Bayer
Bayer is a large global life science company with core competencies in health care and agriculture. We have around 100 000 employees in countries all around the world. Bayer has 3 divisions: Crop science (which is our agriculture business), Pharmaceuticals (which is prescription medicine) and Consumer Health (nonprescription medicine, nutritional supplements, skincare products etc.).
Bayer Norway has about 160 employees, Most of our employees work in research and development, so we have a large modern laboratory where research and development of new radiopharmaceuticals takes place, and we have our own production of existing radiopharmaceuticals at the Institute of Energy Technology just outside Oslo where we produce for worldwide distribution.
We have our office located at Lysaker overlooking the Oslo fjord.
The internship
Bayer wants to take an active part in the development of a patient registry according to eye-related diagnosis. The patient registry must be openly accessible and function as an eye-related database. A common database will provide insight into incidence, baseline at treatment initiation, duration and disease progression. Sweden has 20 years of experience with a national retina-related registry, which is actively used in decision support, financial planning and capacity planning.
Objective: Survey of possibilities and limitations for creating a patient register that can function as a statistics bank, decision support
Carbon Dynamics
Carbon Dynamics is an industrial carbon capture and biotechnology startup developing cutting-edge solutions to convert CO2 into valuable products.
The internship
The intern will work on the development and optimization of biotechnological processes for carbon capture and sustainable fuel production. This includes hands-on experience with bioreactor operations, microbial cultivation, and process engineering. The intern will assist in experimental design, data analysis, and scaling strategies, contributing to our efforts in converting CO? into new products.
Cellmover
Cellmover is a pre-clinical stage immunotherapy company committed to optimizing the tools of the immune system, with a vision to broaden the application of immunotherapies for various cancers.
Cellmover has developed a library of peptides and nanobodies directed at specific proteins in T cells and NK cells. By targeting these proteins, the peptides and nanobodies mediate increased survival and persistence of immune cells within the tumor microenvironment.
Cellmover has a small, dedicated team of three full-time employees, based at ShareLab in Oslo Science Park.
The internship
The internship will involve a combination of cellular assays and protein purification tasks. The selected student will receive hands-on training in essential laboratory techniques, including buffer preparation, protein quantification using BCA and NanoDrop, cell culture work, and assisting our senior scientist with protein purification.
Doscon
DOSCON is a first mover and global trendsetter in i) laboratory analysis in water technology, II) modeling/statistical algorithms for virtual sensors, iii) software environments for PLC/SCADA, and iv) process control of chemical coagulants/removal of phosphorous, nitrogen, PFAS, CECs, BOD, COD in waste/water treatment plants.
DOSCON is small-to-medium enterprise and operates in English and Norwegian, with offices/laboratories in Norway, China and Sri Lanka. Our hires are young and R&D-oriented (n?rings-PhD). We encourage publishing and teaching in academia while innovating patents and technology in industry.
The internship
We offer 1-3 UiO internships. We offer 6-week summer internships in modern laboratory and office environments in ?kern, Oslo, and fieldwork/case studies at major regional waste/drinking water treatment plants.
You will be supervised by R&D staff (professors & lecturers from Vanngruppa at NMBU, see www.waterharmony.net) and a young technical group (DOSCON Global).
One or more of these internship topics should interest you:
i) laboratory analysis in water technology.
II) modeling/statistical algorithms for virtual sensors.
iii) development of software environments for PLC/SCADA in Cloud/OS-deployment, and iv) improvement of process chemistry/ process control of chemical coagulants, in efforts to remove phosphorous, nitrogen, PFAS, CECs, BOD, COD and more in waste/water treatment plants.
Frogner Skole
Frogner Skole is a primary and lower secondary school in Lillestr?m Municipality in Akershus. Frogner Skole and Cultural Center is located in the center of the village of Frogner. We are a 1st–10th grade school with 980 students. The school is organized into four departments, each led by its own assistant principal.
The internship
Education for middle schoolers.
GE HealthCare
As a stand-alone company, GE HealthCare is a leader in precision care, infusing innovation with patient-focused technologies to enable better care. We are dedicated to providing integrated solutions that make hospitals more efficient, clinicians more effective, therapies more precise, and patients healthier. Together, we are living our purpose to create a world where healthcare has no limits.
Our products include contrast agents for X-ray, MRI, ultrasound, and radiopharmaceuticals that enable predictability and diagnosis of diseases at an early stage. In Norway, GE HealthCare also has facilities in Oslo and Lindesnes.
The internship
This project focuses on the theoretical study of eutectic mixtures in pharmaceutical formulations for injections. Eutectic mixtures, which are combinations of components that lower each other's melting points, are valuable in pharmaceuticals for improving the solubility and bioavailability of active ingredients. The project aims to review the properties, formation mechanisms, and pot