FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2026

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Last updated on: 27 March ,2026

The FOSSEE project invites applications for the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2026. The students get an opportunity to work with the FOSSEE team for around 1.5 to 2 months. This is a hybrid fellowship, where students can come to IIT Bombay campus if they wish, and physically work with the FOSSEE team. To get shortlisted for the fellowship, select a project and choose a screening task from the table given below. Complete at least one of the screening tasks and submit. The selection will be purely based on the evaluation criteria of each screening task.

How to Participate?

Students desirous of getting selected for this internship have to learn a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and complete at least one screening task. These tasks can involve programming/ scientific computing/ collecting data that will be of use to the community. These screening tasks are not very complicated and can be done in a week or two.

Registration and Selection Procedure:

To register, please select one of the projects from the table given below and fill out this form.
The submitted task will be reviewed by experts/ mentors from the FOSSEE team.

Terms of Engagement : Remote/ physical (according to the hostel availability), Full-time/ Part-time.

Important Dates:

Registration start date	27 March 2026
Last date of submission	13 April 2026
Declaration of Results	20 April 2026
Commencement of the Internship	15 May 2026 (tentative)
Internship duration	15 May to 15 July 2026 (tentative)

Screening task details:

Please refer to the weblink URL of the respective project for details on the screening task.

Project Name	Brief description of the screening task	Weblink	Mentor's Email Id
eSim	The tasks are divided in 2 categories: Electronics and related fields Software Development Please check the document alongside for more details.	View	Email ID: contact-esim@fossee.in
Scilab Control System toolbox development	The screening task involves implementing Scilab functions for the Control System Toolbox, similar to how they are implemented in Octave.	View	Email ID: contact@scilab.in
Scilab Image Processing toolbox development	The screening task involves implementing Scilab functions for the Image Processing Toolbox, similar to how they are implemented in Octave.	View	Email ID: contact@scilab.in
Creation of Scilab case studies	The screening task involves selecting a published research paper, implementing its methods using Scilab, and demonstrating how the results align with the original findings.	View	Email ID: contact@scilab.in
OpenFOAM	Complete ANY ONE of the Screening Tasks. Based on your preference choose either a Fluid Mechanics task or a Heat Transfer task. Kindly submit the completed task with the appropriate name.	View	Email ID: contact-cfd@fossee.in
FOCAL	Complete ANY ONE of the Screening Tasks. *Task 1: Graphics Design Screening Task ( complete any four) Design a Book Cover (A5 size) Object Illustration (Vector Drawing) Infographic Layout (A4) Educational Poster (A4 size) Newsletter Layout Photo Manipulation Task 2: Animation Creation Screening Task (* complete any one)** Create a Short Animation in Synfig Studio 3D Animation in Blender 2D Animated Explainer Video Interactive Animation 3D	View	Email ID: contact-focal@fossee.in
Osdag	Complete ANY ONE of the screening tasks is mandatory. However, if you are interested in more than one task, you may attempt them: Area of Interest: Civil/Structural Engineering Module Development Design verification of steel connections Structural Optimisation for OsdagBridge Modelling and Analysis of steel-girder RC deck bridge in Python using the OpenseesPy Bridge Cost Estimation - SOR Importing in Excel Area of Interest: Software Development Parametric 3D CAD Model of a Steel Girder Bridge (pythonOCC) Enhancement of IFC wrapper for Osdag’s pythonOCC 3D CAD Models OsdagBridge Plots Integration in UI Bridge module user-interface development (for desktop) Bridge module user-interface development (for web) Create a LaTeX environment for plugin 3psLCC	View	Email ID: contact-osdag@fossee.in Join Discord: https://discord.gg/8K2CUZuaB

If you need any help while submitting the screening task please feel free to contact the mentors at the email ids mentioned.

Benefits :

Opportunity to work with faculty from IIT Bombay
Certificate of FOSSEE summer Fellowship
Recognition on the FOSSEE website

Note: Kindly note that the FOSSEE Project will not be able to provide the honorarium for the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship. We shall be providing hostel accommodation for the Fellows who come to IIT Bombay for the fellowship.

Rules and Regulations :

Once the fellowship starts, every fellow will be assessed every week based on the quality and quantity of the work. At any point, if the work is found unsatisfactory, the fellowship offer will be withdrawn.
The content submitted for the screening task as well as the work done during the fellowship shall be released in open source.
If you are unable to complete the minimum fellowship duration (1.5 months), your fellowship will not be considered.
The decision of the FOSSEE team in declaring the results will be final. No queries in this regard will be entertained.

Honor Code:

The screening task work should be done by the students; if needed AI tool can be used to enhance the work. If any assistance is needed, please contact the mentor’s email id.
We run Plagiarism checks, so please avoid copying from other sources. If found, the student shall be disqualified.
If the work submitted by more than one student is found same, then all the students will be disqualified.