The Swiss Polar Institute is collaborating with offshore sailing team Oliver Heer Ocean Racing to collect environmental data during their 2024 Vendée Globe Campaign. Oliver Heer Ocean Racing and the Swiss Polar Institute are pleased to announce the start of a three-year collaboration to place world-leading Swiss science on Oliver […]

The Mertz fellowship aims to intensify collaboration and networking between Swiss and Australian polar and high altitude science communities. It is dedicated to PhD students and ECRs (maximum 5 years after the PhD award at the time of the proposal submission) based in Switzerland and Australia. The fellowship supports their […]

The calls for proposals for the SPI Exploratory Grants and SPI Technogrants are now open! The SPI Exploratory Grants support Swiss based scientists active in polar regions (including remote high-altitude regions) by allowing them to explore new ideas, fund additional field work or launch new collaborations with financial support targeted at the costs of […]

Both SPI Flagship Initiatives have started their first field campaigns in Southern Greenland and Pamir, Central Asia. These will continue until the end of the summer. Read more about the latest news from the field on the PAMIR and GreenFjord websites. Header photograph: © Andreas Vieli, all rights reserved

The International Glaciological Society Society and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF will hold the 2022 International Symposium on “Snow”. The symposium will be held at the Davos Congress Centre, Davos, from 25 to 30 September 2022. The symposium will focus on understanding snow and its impacts […]

Switzerland has a longstanding scientific history in polar regions. The pioneers behind this history and their achievements are often largely unknown outside of the country. The memoirs of one of Switzerland’s greatest explorers and early polar scientist, Alfred de Quervain, are now available in Shakespeare’s language. “Across Greenland’s Ice Cap, […]

In early August 2023, the Leister Foundation is planning a 14 days ship-based expedition along the coast of South and Southeast Greenland, from Narsarsuaq to Ittoqqortormiit, with purpose of facilitating sampling where it is otherwise difficult and with space for up to eight scientists. The foundation opens a call for […]

The Swiss Polar Day 2022, the annual conference for the Swiss polar and high-altitude research community, will take place on Friday 2 September in Bern. We cordially invite you to participate in this full-day event to enlarge your scientific horizon with talks by international and Swiss experts, get an overview […]

We are delighted to announce that on 18 May 2022, the two SPI Flagship Initiatives PAMIR and GreenFjord were officially launched in Bern. At this occasion, the concept and vision of the two SPI Flagship Initiatives and their scientific programme were presented to an audience of 45 participants and 89 […]