Research Network
Since its foundation in 1980 the Alfred Wegener Institute is liked by diverse national and international cooperations. It sends out scientist to innternational institutes, on research vessels and stations of other nations. Scientist from all over the world are alos invited to the Alfred Wegener Institute with all locations and research platforms. About one quarter of participants of Polarstern expeditions come from foreign countries.
Most important cooperation partners are the national and international universities and institutions. They build the basis for a strong network demonstrated by more than 100 memorandi of understanding with other institutions.
All professorsships at the Alfred Wegener Institute are denominated by joint appointment procedures with the University of Bremen, the International Jacobs University Bremen, the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven, as well as the Universities of Potsdam, Oldenburg and Kiel and further universities, strongly networking in research and teaching.
They are all involved and partners in various joint initiatives, projects and activities, such as the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at Bremen University, the graduate schools and colleges POLMAR, ESSReS and GLOMAR, virtual institutions (e.g. PlanktonTech), databases (e.g. WDC-Mare) and large inter-/ transdisciplinary science clusters such as Potsdam's research and technology platform for natural hazards, climate change and sustainability.
A new way of working was followed with the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen by the formation of a joint Helmholtz / Max-Planck-Joint Research group on Deep Sea Ecology and Technology in 2009.
The Alfred Wegener Institute contributes to diverse national Consortia, Associations and Networks. Trough memberships the AWI is embedded in a number of European Research initiatives and contributes to a variety of international research programmes and projects.
European Memberships:
European and International Research Programmes and Projects:
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP)
- North Greenland Eeamian Ice Drilling (NEEM)
- Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS)
- European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory (EMSO)
- Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)
- Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO)
- Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP)
