The Swiss Polar Institute is pleased to announce the release of its 2025 Annual Report in a newly revised format highlighting SPI’s achievements, financial overview, and strategic contributions to Swiss polar and high-altitude science over the past year. Readers can explore key initiatives, funded projects, services and events as well […]

New Zealand and Swiss researchers came together at an online workshop on 23 April to explore opportunities for collaboration in Antarctic, polar and high-altitude research.  The workshop followed the signing of a joint Memorandum of Agreement between Antarctica New Zealand and the Swiss Polar Institute in 2025 and brought together […]

The Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) is pleased to welcome Stéphanie Lacour (EPFL) to its Foundation Board, and Carlo Barbante (Ca’ Foscari), Thomas Frölicher (UNIBE), Margareta Johansson (Swedish Polar Secretariat) and Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley (BAS) to its Science and Technology Advisory Board (STAB). Alongside these appointments, Christoph Hegg (WSL) has been elected […]

We are pleased to announce that six projects have been selected by an independent panel of experts for the 2026 Polar Access Fund. The successful proposals cover diverse research topics: polar biology and microbiology, environmental technology, glaciology, and climate adaptation. The grants, co-funded by the Swiss Polar Institute and the […]

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) released of the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) Final Outcomes Report and the seven Research Priority Team (RPT) reports presented during the Arctic Science Summit Week 2026 (ASSW 2026) in Aarhus, Denmark, on 26 March 2026. The Fourth International Conference […]

CASCADES is a collaborative polar expedition uniting scientists from Canada, France, Greenland, and Switzerland to confront a critical climate challenge: the accelerating melt of Greenland’s glaciers and its far-reaching impacts on the Atlantic Ocean and climate systems worldwide. Available in English and French, the CASCADES Expedition official website serves as […]

Following the “Cryosphere and People at Risk in Bhutan and the Hindu-Kush Himalaya Workshop” in 2025, the collaboration between Swiss and Bhutanese experts was initiated in March 2026 with a project on glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in Puna Tsang Chu basin in Bhutan. GLOF risk represents a natural hazard […]

MEDIENMITTEILUNG – Bern, 3 März 2026 – Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2026, veranstalten das Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) und die parlamentarische Gruppe «Polarregionen» in Bern eine exklusive Veranstaltung unter dem Titel «Die Schweiz, die Pole und die Hochgebirgsregionen: Welche Ziele für 2035?». An dieser Veranstaltung nehmen Mitglieder des Parlaments, des […]