Vacation Internship Program 2026/27
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Who can apply: The guidelines state no citizenship or nationality condition, but they do impose an institutional one: you must be enrolled in, or have recently graduated from, an Australian university. You must be in the second-last or final year of your undergraduate degree, which for a three-year bachelor’s means the later stages… What is funded: A paid laboratory placement of up to six weeks in a Baker Institute research laboratory in Melbourne, taken between about November 2026 and February 2027 by agreement with the supervising lab head. The stipend is up to 500 Australian dollars a week, and the guidelines document makes clear that this is calculated at… Deadline: Applications close Sunday, 11 October 2026. Round: 2026/27.
Read the full call and apply on the official page: Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, official page.
Who can apply
- The guidelines state no citizenship or nationality condition, but they do impose an institutional one: you must be enrolled in, or have recently graduated from, an Australian university. You must be in the second-last or final year of your undergraduate degree, which for a three-year bachelor's means the later stages of second year or third year, or a recent graduate of one. The degree must be science, biomedicine, health sciences, public health or similar. You need a strong academic record, described as a distinction average or higher, evidenced by a transcript submitted with the application. You must have a genuine intention to continue into honours, master's or PhD research at the Baker Institute, and the review committee explicitly scores whether you contacted a prospective lab head before applying, so that email is part of the application and not a courtesy. Applications go by email to [email protected] with a CV and academic transcript. The form asks for a CRICOS course code, which indicates international students at Australian universities are contemplated, but the Institute does not say so outright, so we do not claim it.
Stage dates
Applications close Sunday 11 October 2026. No clock time and no timezone are printed.11 October 2026
Offers are sent in early to mid November 2026 and applicants respond by mid November 2026. No exact date is printed.See the official page
Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.