24.07.2024

DFG: Infrastructure Area – Antarctic Research with Comparative Investigations in Arctic Ice Areas

Deadline: 15 November 2024 (Deadline for registration for the workshop: 10 August 2024)

In December 2023, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) decided to extend the Infrastructure Priority Programme “Antarctic Research with Comparative Investigations in Arctic Ice Areas” (SPP 1158) for a further six years from 2025 to 2030. From autumn 2024 onwards, proposals can be submitted annually as before for a funding period of up to three years.

The polar regions play a key role in the global climate, and interdisciplinary approaches such as those in this Priority Programme make a particular contribution to understanding them. The Priority Programme ensures that German researchers in the natural sciences can participate in international polar research, especially in the early stages of their careers. Above all, however, it gives researchers at German universities access to Antarctica and enables them to use the necessary infrastructure provided by the partner institutions.

In the current programme phase (2025–2030), research work will focus on four overarching Antarctic research topics:

• Dynamics of Climate System Components
• Response to Environmental Change
• Connectivity and Exchange in Polar Systems
• Improved Understanding of Polar Processes and Mechanisms

These overarching research topics are underpinned by over 60 specific research questions and will help to clarify the role of Antarctica in the earth system. Projects with geological questions should focus on the recent history of Antarctica (not older than about 34 million years).

The annual coordination workshop of this Priority Programme is aimed at researchers from German universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutions and will take place from 29 September to 1 October 2024 in Cologne, Germany. The coordination workshop is mandatory. The deadline for registration for the workshop is 10 August 2024.

Proposals must be written in English and submitted to the DFG by 15 November 2024

The DFG strongly welcomes proposals from researchers of all genders and sexual identities, from different ethnic, cultural, religious, ideological or social backgrounds, from different career stages, types of universities and research institutions, and with disabilities or chronic illness. With regard to the subject-specific focus of this call, the DFG encourages female researchers in particular to submit proposals.

Complete Call:
https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2024/ifw-24-59 

Website for information about the SPP Antarctic Research: 
www.spp-antarktisforschung.uni-rostock.de/en