FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2026 – IIT Bombay

Job Overview

Job Description

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 date27 March 2026
Last date of submission13 April 2026
Declaration of Results20 April 2026
Commencement of the Internship15 May 2026 (tentative)
Internship duration15 May to 15 July 2026 (tentative)
FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2026 - IIT Bombay