The call for the Prix de Quervain for Polar and High-Altitude Research is now open. This year’s Prix de Quervain aims at awarding students and early-career scientists for their research conducted in, or concerning high-altitude regions. The funding organisations are the Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research (SKPH), […]

Following the first call for applications conducted between September and November 2022, two AUD 10,000 Fellowships have been awarded thanks to the financial support of the Swiss Polar Institute and the Antarctic Science Foundation who will jointly fund a Fellow. The Mertz Fellowship programme is designed to encourage the active […]

PRESS RELEASE Bern, 30 January 2023 – The Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the National Institute of Polar Research of Japan, the Research Organisation of Information and Systems (NIPR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today for collaborative research in the polar and remote high-altitude regions. The signing took place […]

The researchers from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) continue to be very prolific! We now count more than 75 journal articles resulting from this scientific expedition around Antarctica five years ago. You can now read articles about the trends of adaptation and evolution of sclerite shapes in sea pens with […]

On 5 December, the SPI offices will move to Sion, in the Alpole building, at the center of the Energypolis campus. Close to the heart of Sion and anchored in the Alps, the SPI team will continue to offer its services to the Swiss polar community, and will organise events […]

Swiss Polar Institute representatives were at St-Malo on the last weekend of October to encourage the offshore sailing team Oliver Heer Ocean Racing during the final preparations for the Route du Rhum solo race. Oliver Heer will cross the Atlantic to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe while collecting environmental data onboard his […]

EU-PolarNet 2 seeks support to develop ideas for concrete research activities. With the Call for Services, it offers a kind of seed money to support the preparation, planning or development of new ideas and lines of research. Please note that the call will not provided funding for field campaigns and […]

The International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT) launched its 2022 TA/RA call for Transnational Access and Remote Access to 39 research stations. Scientists based in Switzerland are eligible to apply and encouraged to make the most of these opportunities! You want to know everything about […]

Swiss early-career researchers (ECRs) are invited to apply for a research and observation plan using the research vessel MIRAI (R/V Mirai) Arctic cruise to be conducted from August to October 2023. It represents a rare opportunity to participate in a research expedition that will travel the Pacific Arctic region (Beaufort, […]