The Swiss Polar Institute is pleased to share the following announcement by the Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research (SCPH): Dear colleagues in the Swiss polar community, As Switzerland’s national adhering body to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research (SCPH) invites expressions […]

Following the second call for proposals launched in 2025, two SPI Flagship Initiatives have been selected for funding. These Swiss-led multi-annual programmes will combine an interdisciplinary approach and cutting-edge science. They aim to investigate critical changes in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and to bring better understanding of the far-reaching […]

Over four days, this year’s Swiss Polar Festival embarked nearly 900 visitors on a journey of discovery from the high peaks of Pamir Mountains to the Rhone River and its microscopic world of plankton. The festival offered a rich variety of scientific outreach activities through engaging formats in collaboration with […]

This year, Swiss Polar Class collaborated with Schulverlag plus, a Swiss publisher specialised in educational material. Together, they developed a new learning programme focused on polar regions and their significance to the global climate. Three Poles, One World (Drei Pole, eine Welt – eine Zusammenarbeit mit Swiss Polar Class) aligns […]

Co-funded by Swiss Polar Institute and BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation, the Polar Access Fund focuses on early-career researchers who plan an initial field trip to a polar region or a remote high-altitude area. The research conducted during the field trip must be part of an existing overarching project and be related to […]

Between 8 and 12 September 2025, spatial planners from Avannaata Kommunia in Greenland participated in a week-long workshop dedicated to “Integrated Risk Management” of mass-movement processes. The event was organised in the framework of Swiss Polar Institute’s Konrad Steffen Grant. The core idea of the workshop was to share first-hand […]

In view of the MoU signed between Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the close collaborations between our respective scientific communities, we are pleased to relay the following information from AWI about access to their POLAR 5 and/or POLAR 6 aircraft for scientific operations. The […]

In collaboration with SPI Flagship Initiatives GreenFjord and PAMIR, Swiss Polar Class published two new bilingual modules. Activity sheets, podcasts and videos offer an accessible and engaging introduction to interdisciplinary research in cryospheric sciences. Available in French and German, the content is tailored to primary classes (5H to 8H / […]

During their last field campaign in Tajikistan at the end of September 2025, the SPI Flagship Initiative PAMIR succeeded in securing two ice cores over 100 metres long from the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap. The coring expedition was conducted at an extraction site located at an altitude of 5,800 metres. […]