InTent Internship Programme 2025 (#IIP): Paid Summer Placement/Internship for Undergraduates (Bachel

📍 Location: Exeter (UK) 
🗓 Duration: Mid-June – Mid-September 2025 
💼 Format: Remote or Onsite 
🌍 Sector: AgriTech / AI Innovation / Sustainability 
💸 Salary: Paid internship 

The Nature & Climate Impact Team (NCI Team) is an agile, impact-driven initiative accelerating climate and nature action across key sectors through science and innovative campaigns. We are an agile global unit with diverse experience, using an evidence-based strategy and innovative communications. The NCI Team is led by Professor Gail Whiteman as the inaugural Hoffmann Impact Professor for Accelerating Action on Nature & Climate. Research Impact Fellows are complimented by Communication Impact Fellows to help stakeholders understand the changes/opportunities and accelerate action. The Nature and Climate Impact Team is focusing on four industry sectors: food, digital tech, consumer package goods and electronics, and comms.   

As a Food Systems & A.I. Innovation Intern, you’ll support the development of two transformational tools: a nature-oriented large language model (LLM) and a data-driven platform to optimize agricultural production and distribution. You’ll gain hands-on experience at the frontier of sustainability, AI, and regenerative agriculture, working alongside experts from academia, international development, and tech. 

• Conduct literature reviews on regenerative agriculture, supply chains, and agricultural economics 

Conduct literature reviews on regenerative agriculture, supply chains, and agricultural economics 

• Collect and analyze data on soil health, crop yields, biodiversity, and climate metrics 

Collect and analyze data on soil health, crop yields, biodiversity, and climate metrics 

• Document and compare regenerative vs. conventional farming approaches 

Document and compare regenerative vs. conventional farming approaches 

• Assist in experimental design for LLM model validation 

Assist in experimental design for LLM model validation 

• Map stakeholders in agricultural value chains across Africa for a digital marketplace 

Map stakeholders in agricultural value chains across Africa for a digital marketplace 

• Collaborate closely with the Digital Technology Research Impact Fellow on tool development 

Collaborate closely with the Digital Technology Research Impact Fellow on tool development