During Q1 2027, ESO Chile will be preparing for some of its most significant public engagement activities, including its flagship ESO ALMA Open House Day in Santiago, and Astronomy Day celebrations in Coquimbo and Antofagasta. These initiatives draw huge crowds and require a wide range of visual communication materials to support public participation and enhance visitor experience. The design intern will play a leading role in the development of these materials, from initial concept and design to final production and printing. Deliverables may include event signage, informational graphics, visitor wayfinding materials, digital invitations, promotional assets, and social media content.

The internship will also provide hands-on experience supporting ESO's permanent and traveling exhibitions. The selected student will contribute to the design of exhibition labels, interpretive panels, and infographics that communicate scientific concepts to diverse audiences within ESO's Visitor Centres and outreach programmes.

In addition, the intern will support ESO social media team by developing content for digital campaigns in collaboration with strategic partners, to promote public visits and events, among others.

Project:

Design internship: visitor experience and social media

One of 2026 challenges is the upgrade of the visitors' experience at its observatories and during the biggest outreach event of the year: ESO Open House (OH) at Vitacura offices. On this regard, the intern will support three key initiatives: updating the public visits scripts and talking points that the guides use during the 3-hour guided tour to ensure engagement, interest and understanding of the observatories mission for it its different audiences (high school students and teachers, families with small kids, and adults with interest in science); propose improvements to the OH based on visitor satisfaction surveys from previous years, and organizing the media database to better support promotion of these and other activities and events among COMM's responsibilities.

The selected student will help review and edit the tour scripts, contribute to content improvement of diverse COMM's products (announcements, reports, SM videos and others), alongside with working on updating, enriching, and profiling the database of national journalists who can cover topics related to the observatory's work: from the scientific field to tourism and educational entertainment. The intern will collaborate closely with the COMM Chile team and participate in coordination meetings throughout the project.