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We are pleased to announce that the calls for proposals for the SPI Exploratory Grant and SPI Technogrants are now open! The submission deadline is 9 October 2025, 12:00 (noon, Swiss time). The SPI Exploratory Grants support Swiss-based scientists active in polar regions (including remote high-altitude regions such as the Andes and the Himalayas) by allowing them to […]

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Floating platforms for polar science: towards a white paper

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Floating platforms for polar science: towards a white paper

Experts from offshore sailing and polar science communities gathered on 19 and 20 July on Föhr (Germany) to resume the exchange on environmental impact, best practices and complementary expertise initiated at the Arctic Circle Assembly last year. The two-day seminar was dedicated to outlining the opportunities floating and sailing platforms can […]

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Swiss Polar Institute signs a Memorandum of Agreement with Antarctica New Zealand

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Swiss Polar Institute signs a Memorandum of Agreement with Antarctica New Zealand

On 7 July 2025 in Auckland, New Zealand, Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and Antarctica New Zealand (ANZ) officialised their cooperation in polar science. This MoA aims to facilitate the development of joint research projects in Antarctica. The signing took place in the presence of Prof. Jordy Hendrikx (Chief Executive, ANZ), […]

Polar Access Fund 2025: selected grantees

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Polar Access Fund 2025: selected grantees

We are pleased to announce that four projects have been selected by an independent panel of experts for the eighth edition of the Polar Access Fund. The successful proposals span the domains of glaciology, sea ice physics, glacial hydrology and geophysics. The grants, co-funded by Swiss Polar Institute and BNP […]

Abstract submission for the polar and high-altitude session at the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting

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Abstract submission for the polar and high-altitude session at the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting × 7th Swiss Geologists Day taking place on 5–6 December 2025 in Bern is now open. As part of this year’s scientific symposia, we invite the polar and high-altitude research community to contribute to the […]

The early-career researchers of the "Génération Cryosphère" project with Audrey Azoulay (Director General, UNESCO), Frederik Paulsen (President, Fondation Albédo pour la Cryosphère), Jérôme Chappellaz (President of the Scientific Council, Fondation Albédo pour la Cryosphère), Heïdi Sevestre, and Matthieu Tordeur.

Three young Swiss researchers to embark on the One Ocean Expedition with “Génération Cryosphère”

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Three young Swiss researchers to embark on the One Ocean Expedition with “Génération Cryosphère”

On 8 June 2025 in Nice, the launch of the UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences brought together researchers from the “Génération Cryosphère” programme, including three early-career scientists from Switzerland, to meet and exchange ahead of the One Ocean Expedition. Proposed by Swiss Polar Institute, three francophone researchers Delphine […]

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Polar Access Fund: Artificial ice reservoir (ice stupa) built to enhance water management in Ladakh

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Polar Access Fund: iceberg fill the Narsarsuaq fjord in Greenland.

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SPI Exploratory Grant: Fieldwork on vegetation patterns above Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland

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Calving iceberg on Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, summer 2023. The scale is hard to capture, but this iceberg is rising up more than twice the height of the calving front which is approximately 130-150 meters high.

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A Polar Access Fund grantee is recovering GPS data in order to monitor a landslide near the Portage glacier (Alaska).

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SPI Technogrant: Prototype for a low-cost and robust electrical resistivity tomography monitoring system for remote permafrost environments

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Polar Access Fund: Challenging access to fieldwork site on a debris-covered glacier in the Garhwal mountain range in northern India

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Field & Summer School: International Geochronology Summer School, Switzerland

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SPI Exploratory Grants & SPI Technogrants – 2025 Calls for proposals are open

SPI Exploratory Grants & SPI Technogrants – 2025 Calls for proposals are open

Floating platforms for polar science: towards a white paper

Floating platforms for polar science: towards a white paper

Swiss Polar Institute signs a Memorandum of Agreement with Antarctica New Zealand

Swiss Polar Institute signs a Memorandum of Agreement with Antarctica New Zealand

Polar Access Fund 2025: selected grantees

Polar Access Fund 2025: selected grantees

Abstract submission for the polar and high-altitude session at the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting

Abstract submission for the polar and high-altitude session at the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting

Three young Swiss researchers to embark on the One Ocean Expedition with “Génération Cryosphère”

Three young Swiss researchers to embark on the One Ocean Expedition with “Génération Cryosphère”

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