🇬🇷 Internship in Greece ⚡ Electrical Installations and Smart Building Systems at a Startup Greece Partner 🏗️ (Erasmus+ grant)

Startup Greece is seeking, for its partner, a hands-on intern to join the team in Tripoli. This placement puts you on an active construction and renovation site, working where power systems and digital networks meet, from conduits and electrical panels through to structured cabling, IP cameras and IoT sensors.

🏢 About Startup Greece

Startup Greece is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, connecting, and advancing entrepreneurship for Greeks in the tech industry. Its mission is to bring the Greek Startup Ecosystem into the global spotlight and foster innovation for sustainable growth and prosperity. Startup Greece enables young interns coming from abroad to share their experience, enhancing cross-border networking and cooperation.

The organisation describes itself as the beating heart of the Greek innovation ecosystem, dedicated to empowering founders, connecting talent with opportunity, and putting Greek entrepreneurship on the global map. To support its rapidly growing community, organize high-impact events and process ecosystem data, the team needs to operate at lightning speed, and it is looking for interns to help on what matters most: helping Greek startups thrive.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

⚡ Power and infrastructure: assist in routing conduits, wiring, and assembling electrical panels for multiple units and common areas

🌐 Networking and ICT: support the installation of high-speed structured cabling (Cat6a and Cat7), Wi-Fi access points, and the central IT rack

📹 Security and smart home: help mount and configure IP and PoE cameras, IP intercoms, smart switches, and IoT sensors

📐 Site operations: read technical blueprints, test circuits for safety, and properly document and label network connections

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✅ Requirements

🎓 Currently studying Electrical Engineering, Automation, IT, or a related field

🔌 Basic understanding of electrical circuits and IP networking concepts

💪 Willingness to do hands-on work on an active construction and renovation site

🎁 What They Offer

🧰 Practical experience: gain end-to-end exposure to how power systems and digital networks integrate in modern real estate

👷 Expert mentorship: work directly with experienced engineers and systems integrators

🌍 Ecosystem access: connect with the innovative community and network of Startup Greece

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📋 The Details

📍 Location: Tripoli, Peloponnese, Greece

📅 Period: 1 September 2026 to 1 February 2027

⏳ Duration: listed as 6 months in the general information, while the description states a minimum of three months and a maximum of twelve months, with four months or longer highly recommended

🕐 Commitment: full-time

💶 Compensation: no financial compensation, so this internship is unpaid

💻 Interns are required to bring their own laptops

🎓 Fields: Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, Engineering and Technology, and Mathematics and Informatics

🏢 Type: non-profit organisation

👥 Who Can Apply

Interns should currently be enrolled in a bachelor's or master's programme at a university, or have completed their degree within the past year. As the placement is unpaid, funding comes through an Erasmus+ traineeship grant, so students at higher education institutions in Erasmus+ programme countries should confirm eligibility and the grant procedure with their own university's international office.

🤝 Diversity and Inclusion

At Startup Greece, Diversity and Inclusion are at the center of everything the organisation does. It is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

📩 How to Apply

Applications are only accepted through the organisation's own official form on its website, and applications submitted anywhere else are not taken into consideration.