Swiss Polar Institute – Supporting Swiss polar science

The Institut Nordique du Québec (INQ), the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) are launching the CASCADES expedition. The call is now open until 2 June 2025 and welcomes proposals from research groups in Switzerland and France, and from the Canadian Transforming Climate Action programme, with fieldwork to be carried out in summer and autumn 2026.

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Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

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Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

In summer 2025, FOREL will be operating along the western coast of Greenland and welcomes Swiss-led scientific projects to work on board during the months of July and August. SPI is pleased to offer interested scientists employed at a Swiss public research institution the opportunity to join this Swiss-operated research platform in the Arctic during this timeframe.

Climate insights from Antarctic ice: scientific achievements of Switzerland and Europe presented in Bern

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Climate insights from Antarctic ice: scientific achievements of Switzerland and Europe presented in Bern

On Wednesday 5 March 2025 in Bern, in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and the University of Bern, the Swiss Polar Institute had the pleasure to present the European-funded project Beyond EPICA: Oldest Ice, a long-term study of ice cores from the heart […]

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SPI Flagship Initiatives: the 2025 call is open

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SPI Flagship Initiatives: the 2025 call is open

The second call for proposals for SPI Flagship Initiatives is now open and starts with the call for pre-proposals to be submitted by 30 April 2025. Two info events will be held online on 6 and 11 February to provide an overview of the call’s process and eligibility criteria. The SPI Flagship Initiatives programme aims […]

Prix de Quervain 2025

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Prix de Quervain 2025

The call for the Prix de Quervain is now open and this year’s prize will be awarded to outstanding research on topics relating to high altitude. The funding organisations are the Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research (SKPH), the Commission for the Research Station on Jungfraujoch (SKHFJ), and the Swiss […]

Renewal of SPI’s national status and support by SERI

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Renewal of SPI’s national status and support by SERI

On 19 December, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI announced the renewal of SPI’s national status and an increased budget for the period 2025-2028. We are thankful for the renewed trust and the recognition of the important contributions of the Swiss polar and high-altitude science community.

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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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Open call for applications: INQ-SPI-IPEV CASCADES Expedition

Open call for applications: INQ-SPI-IPEV CASCADES Expedition

Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

Climate insights from Antarctic ice: scientific achievements of Switzerland and Europe presented in Bern

Climate insights from Antarctic ice: scientific achievements of Switzerland and Europe presented in Bern

SPI Flagship Initiatives: the 2025 call is open

SPI Flagship Initiatives: the 2025 call is open

Prix de Quervain 2025

Prix de Quervain 2025

Renewal of SPI’s national status and support by SERI

Renewal of SPI’s national status and support by SERI

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