About this position
At TNO we work with European partners towards enabling state-of-the-art technologies using the vast amounts of data being generated in the current age. We are seeing that in practice there is valuable data being locked away in organizations due to a difficulty in sharing this data, or an unwillingness to be exposed to security and privacy risks. Our projects aim to remove these risks and enable easy sharing of data between different organizations, creating a connected ecosystem in which advanced AI, federated learning and network resilience solutions can flourish. Do you want to aid in the development of secure, scalable and sovereign data exchange? Or research interoperability between organizations on both a technical, semantic and organizational level? Then we are looking for you!
What will be your role?
You will be researching how we can better create and maintain connections between organizations in a world where digitalization and automation is increasingly being assumed as the default way of exchanging data. You’ll be doing this by looking at the way organizations technically communicate between each other, the content of the messages they exchange and how these can adhere to FAIR principles and by determining which organizational challenges stand in the way of an ecosystem of different organizations where every member’s interests align.
You’ll be doing this with TNO colleagues from the relatively new data ecosystems department. Within this department we are working towards the next generation of data interoperability and apply our knowledge regarding technical, semantic and organizational interoperability towards developing data ecosystems and the tooling required to aid in setting up these ecosystems. We apply this knowledge in a variety of domains such as manufacturing, logistics and the Dutch AI Coalition. The outcomes of your project will be used in practical applications and may be deployed on a European scale.
This opening is a general opening for internships and graduation projects between 5 and 9 months. The specifics regarding your project will depend on what projects we have available at the time of applying and your interests. TNO has offices all over the Netherlands and a suitable location can always be found.
In general, some of the topics we are working on as a department are:
What we expect from you
We are looking for an enthusiastic, and curious student working on graduating from their masters or bachelors with knowledge regarding IT, semantics or knowledge representation. You should be willing to learn new technologies and are able to think through abstract concepts towards their practical implication.
What you'll get in return
You want to work on the precursor of your career; a work placement gives you an opportunity to take a good look at your prospective future employer. TNO goes a step further. It’s not just looking that interests us; you and your knowledge are essential to our innovation. That’s why we attach a great deal of value to your personal and professional development. You will, of course, be properly supervised during your work placement and be given the scope for you to get the best out of yourself. Naturally, we provide suitable work placement compensation.