The call for proposals for the € 150 000 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship award is currently open. The fellowship programme provides young scientists with the opportunity to conduct research in East Antarctica while operating out of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station over two seasons. The fellowship is open to applicants […]
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Participate in the 2018 CESM Polar Modeling Workshop with sponsorship from SPI
The Swiss Polar Institute will support Swiss early career scientists selected by the organisers by covering their travel and accommodation costs with a maximum amount of CHF 1200. The call for applications for the CESM Polar Modelling Workshop, organised by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a US research […]
Read MoreAdd a polar dimension to your research with the Polar Access Fund!
The Swiss Polar Institute will launch in January the Polar Access Fund, a funding instrument with the goal of enabling early career scientists (doctoral students or early post-doc) to undertake field trips in Polar Regions. These field trips must be inserted into an existing research project affiliated to a Swiss […]
Read MoreApply for Sentinel North International PhD School and get sponsorship from SPI
The Swiss Polar Institute will support up to three Swiss early career scientists to cover the registration and travel costs. The call for applications for the International PhD School under the leadership of Sentinel North of Université Laval, the Canadian transdisciplinary research program dealing with the changing North, is open […]
Read MoreSave the date for the Swiss Polar Day 2018!
Where: à ETHZ Hauptgebaüde D1.1 When: à 4 April 2018 The Swiss Polar Day 2018 will gather the Swiss scientific community around international keynote speakers active in the Arctic, Antarctic and high-altitude regions. Following the Swiss Polar Institute’s Call for Ideas, the Swiss Polar Day will also be the opportunity […]
Read MoreThe SPI Call for Ideas is open!
In order to define its future priorities and activities, the Swiss Polar Institute is asking for inputs and ideas from the Swiss Polar Community. Please contribute and make sure your ideas are submitted! The deadline for submission is Friday 12 January 2018. For more information on the call, please click […]
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“We urgently need to coordinate our efforts.”
Konrad Steffen, a glaciologist and the new scientific director of the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), has been involved in polar research for the past 40 years. His work has focused primarily on the Arctic, particularly the changes taking place within Greenland’s ice sheet. He is also a professor at ETH […]
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Unexpected facets of Antarctica emerge from the labs
Six months after the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition ended, the teams that ran the 22 scientific projects are hard at work sorting through the many samples they collected. Some preliminary findings were announced during a conference in Crans Montana organized by the Swiss Polar Institute. Nearly 30,000 samples were taken during […]
Read MoreHorizon 2020: Calls for Polar research projects opening soon!
The work programmes for the period 2018 to 2020 of Horizon 2020 – Europe’s largest research funding programme – have been released. The different papers, defining funding opportunities by theme, reveal where the priorities will be. We are glad to note that polar research has not been left out. The […]
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