Internships on offer for the 2025 Awards:

Soluis internship 2025

Soluis is a group of artists and technologists specializing in delivering cutting-edge, immersive Virtual Twin environments that drive better design, collaboration, decision-making, and sales acceleration across the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

Our mission is to enable seamless stakeholder engagement for some of the world’s most ambitious real estate and infrastructure projects. By leveraging immersive technology, we transform complex ideas into effortless understanding, transporting stakeholders to fully realized environments that are often yet to be built.

Internship details

  • A 3-month internship with Soluis
  • Matched to the team that suits your skillset
  • Hired on a 3-month temporary contract
  • Flexible in terms of start date

What you can expect/ key outcomes:

  • Work on ground-breaking projects for global clients in architecture, engineering and construction
  • Working with cutting-edge technologies and gaining access to world-leading partnership teams
  • Fully supported with coaching and training from the Soluis team
  • Remote working: work from anywhere with our flexible working policy

With over 20 years of expertise, Soluis has cultivated strong relationships with industry leaders, institutions, and government organizations. Our collaborations with technology partners like Epic Games, Meta, Magic Leap, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, and Unity Technologies provide unparalleled access to innovative tools, expert training, and cutting-edge solutions, setting us apart in the industry.

Storylab internship 2025

StoryLab is an interdisciplinary research institute at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge) that explores the effects of digital innovation, co-creation and storytelling on social change, cultural participation and heritage sustainability. The institute researches how the development and democratisation of existing and emerging creative technologies enable community empowerment, heritage revitalisation, and participatory and sustainable regeneration.

The candidate should display interest and strong skills in one or more of the following areas:

  • Storytelling and narratives
  • Games Design
  • XR (AR, VR)

The internship will take place between June and September 2025. The intern will begin by working with StoryLab for 6 weeks (Phase 1: June-July 2025) understanding the research context, gathering data, and designing a small, ambitious but manageable project. In the final 4 weeks (Phase 2: August-September 2025), the intern will learn about XR development in a commercial space, collaborating with industry partners involved in one of the StoryLab’s project, including the Horizon Europe project REVIVE.

Download further details about the 2025 Storylab internship.

Further internships for 2025 will be with Arup, and Wales Millennium Centre with Sugar Creative – details will be added here as soon as they are available. Details of the 2024 internships with Arup and WMC are provided below for indicative purposes.

2024 internships

The rewards for winners in the 2024 Innovate UK Immersive Tech Awards included various prizes, with the highlight being paid internships offered by industry partners. For the 2024 edition, these esteemed partners included Arup, Soluis, StoryLab Anglia Ruskin University, ARCADE, and Wales Millennium Centre.

These internships were offered to finalists (individuals or selected members of a team) in any of the five student categories of the awards. The 2024 internship details are below: details may vary slightly for 2025.

Arup industrial placement internship 2024

At Arup we strive to make a positive difference in the world, and we’re looking for curious students to join us. Our industrial and summer internships provide a valuable insight into all areas of the built environment. Working on real projects and collaborating with our experienced teams, you’ll add value to clients from your first day, whilst exploring your skills and interests.

We are proud to regularly feature as one of the top UK employers of interns. It’s a testament to our commitment to providing a solid foundation to your development. We’re sure to have a role that interests you and makes the most of your talents.

Industrial placement details:

  • 3-month industrial placement with Arup
  • Possibility to extend
  • Flexible on start and end date
  • Fully supported by a project team
  • London office based industrial placement

What you can expect/key outcomes

  • Being part of innovative, sustainable solutions to solve our clients’ complex needs
  • Working across multiple geographies and sectors to push the sustainable agenda forward
  • Create unique communication strategies to engage with clients

Wales Millennium Centre x ARCADE internship 2024

ARCADE (London) is an award-winning mixed reality studio on a mission to make the world a more playable place. Wales Millennium Centre (Cardiff) is Wales’s national performing arts centre. The centre stages musicals, opera, ballet, contemporary dance, comedy, cabaret as well as producing and presenting community performances, exhibitions, and flagship events such as our international arts festival Llais and the National Eisteddfod.

The applicant should have interests and strong skills in storytelling, narratives, and XR production (AR, VR, MR).

The successful applicant worked with Wales Millennium Centre, Writer, Director Tracy Spottiswoode and ARCADE on an experiential experience titled the Broad Haven Triangle. This sci-fi inspired fairytale was be a multi-sensory XR project that transport participants to the coast of 1970s Wales as a witness to the enigma of mysterious UFO sightings known as the British Roswell, one of the most important UFO incidents in UK history. This project aimed to::

  • Develop a prototype XR experience that would blur the line between fact and fiction playing with perspective and scale.
  • Understand ways in which archive material from the broadcast library in Wales can be reimagined in creative to tell stories using XR.
  • Explore ways in which we might encompass the Welsh language through creative captioning and interaction.

Timeline

  • Early June 2024: The internship launched with ARCADE in London where the intern remotely worked with the Creative team in Cardiff on concept designs.
  • Late June 2024: 2-3 weeks working with the creative team and cast at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
  • Early July 2024: 2-3 weeks with ARCADE to develop and prototype the technical work.
  • Late July 2024: Share development build.

Ready to apply?

Click here to start your entry for the 2025 Immersive Tech Awards.