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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the Swiss skipper Oliver Heer are lending their OceanPack to the new research vessel Malizia Explorer this year. SPI will thus continue to enable data analysis with ETH Zurich and the Universities of Bern and Lausanne, highlighting once more how the offshore sailing and […]

Produced by SCADM, ADC and Southern Ocean Observing System Data Management Sub-Committee, the guide aims to provide the polar research community with key concepts and tips to ensure the published data are FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable).

The SPI FOREL Grants support Swiss-based scientists who wish to use the FOREL Research Platform in coastal polar and sub-polar regions for pilot projects, additional fieldwork, and logistics. The call is open until 15 June 2025 for fieldwork in 2026.

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.