International undergrad summer research (1st or 2nd year)

[crick]

Hello, I’m doing my first year of bachelor degree in physics in Italy and I would really like to get some research experience before my third year. Do you know any (international) summer research opportunity for a physics student who completed his first or second year of studies? I would be ok to do it in any EU country or outside of it. I’m looking for something quite “simple” (even just assist a researcher or student) just to get started and have a research experience in my CV, so I can do something more complex in the following years.

I know these things are quite common in US, but I checked some US universities websites and in most of the cases it’s necessary to be a student in the US, which I’m not.

Is there any chance I can find something even if I'm not from the country where the program is located?
Any information or link is very appreciated

Thanks a lot

 

[Alcathous]

Ask at your university. Easiest is to do research on something you had a practical on. If you never did any lab work and if you can't code at all, it will be a lot harder for them to find something you can work on independently for those 6 weeks or so.

Usually, many courses are in line with the research projects that are going on. So when you did a practical there you can ask the PI/PhD candidate supervising the practical if it is worth it to mail a professor. You will end up working for a PhD candidate or maybe a postdoc anyway.
If you mail a professor, she/he has to ask the PhD candidates anyway.