Internship was in Bergen, beautiful norwegian city located on the west-coast of Norway.

Bergen is a very colourful and beautiful city and has really a lot to offer - apart from famous touristic fish market and UNESCO heritage site Bryggen, the city itself is also very welcoming for nature lovers (many hills to walk around) and art lovers (I can't even count the museums) and you can get lost in the narrow streets full of cute wooden houses.
What I love about Bergen is the compact size - you can actually walk everywhere around the city center, even from the city center to the most famous viewpoint - Fløyen. Public transportation is also good and reasonably priced - well, in terms of Norway (student ticker per month). Also local people are very nice and welcoming.

Bergen has around countless hills to hike, mainly the most famous Floyen and Ulriken, both operated also with cable car. The city is located in the heart of fjords, so there are unlimited opportunities for hiking with tent, boat cruises to islands... trips to Sognefjord, Hardangerfjord, perfect place to start a roadtrip.

I worked at the University of Bergen, at the Department of Earth Science, with work focusing on Geomicrobiology.
My main supervisor was Steffen Leth Jørgensen, and he was very welcoming and nice, everybody at the Geomicrobiology nonetheless. (Thank you!

My work consisted of performing lab analysis on deep sea sediments - firstly DNA extraction from soil samples followed by purification steps and PCR to identify microorganisms in different sediments' depths.

Salary was sufficient (18000 NOK), although it was needed to save-up some money before arrival - I got the salary very, very late, one month after the official end of the internship and I recieved both monthly payments at once in one payment...
But in general the salary was high, enough for decent living also with couple of trips around Bergen.

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IAESTE found me an acommodation, which was very well located, near the city center and right to bus stop, and with very reasonable price and superkind roommate.
Rent price for one month was 4100 NOK + electricity and internet, in total around 4600 per month.

IAESTE member met me in the city center and provided me with basic information about how everything works, took me to Administration office etc.. Karen, another IAESTE member, was the one who helped me a lot during whole two months with payment and problems with d-number (number needed for getting payment).
IAESTE members organized international evening and other meetings in the office.

During IAESTE evenings we met with other interns in Bergen, also went to couple of trips.

Unlimited hiking opportunities around Bergen and, as stated above - so many museums to choose from, f.e. KODE - museum of modern art with Munch was really interesting.

Fish soup, seafood, fish... also norwegian brown cheese - brunost, and fish.

Skype, Messenger etc...

I mainly recommend to go with enough savings because you won't get the salary so fast as you should.

Well... everything waterproof would be good, since it's rainy Bergen :)
Other than that - hiking shoes, warm and windproof clothes.
And camera!
And some czech specialties - food/alcohol.

I really enjoyed the work and participation on the research. Also I loved the city, did enough trips around Norway, met great people, got to know local culture - overall it's new and very nice experience in a lot of ways.

IAESTE members were helpful, provided me with everything I needed, so the cooperation was good.
Only problem was with school administration and also the Bergen administration office for foreigners, which resulted in very delayed payment, but IAESTE member, Karen, tried to solve everything out even that it wasn't her (nor IAESTE's) problem.