International Cooperations:

The Alfred Wegener Institute works in a global network. A particularly close collaboration exists with partners from France, Great Britain, Norway, Russia and Canada.

Several stations are jointly operated by AWI and its partners: AWIPEV on Spitsbergen with France, Samoilov station in Siberia with Russia and  the Dallmann laboratory on the Antarctic Peninsula with Argentina and the Netherlands.

The following research institutions from around the world are a selection of different partners with whom the AWI collaborates:

• Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania, Australien
• Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), Russland
• Australian Antarctic Division
• British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Großbritannien
• Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Mexiko
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spanien
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Indien
• Dirección Nacional del Antártico Argentino (DNA), Argentinien
• Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Frankreich
• Institut Polaire Paul Emil Victor (IPEV), Frankreich
• Institute of Atmospheric and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Italien
• Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), Neuseeland
• Institute of Low Temperature Science, Japan
• Institute of Oceanography (INOS), University College of Science and Technology Malaysia (KUSTEM), Malaysia
• Instituto Antartico Peruano (INANPE), Peru
• Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre (JAMSTEC), Japan
• Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), Korea
• Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI), Korea
• Lena Delta Reservat (LDR), Russland
• Murmansk Marine Biological Institute of the Kola Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MMBI KSC RAS), Russland
• National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR), Japan
• Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norwegen
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norwegen
• Permafrost Institute (PI) Siberian Branch, Russland
• Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russland
• Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Großbritannien
• South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP) of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEA & T), Südafrika
• The East Sea Fisheries Research Institute (ESFRI), NFRDI, Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry&Fisheries, Korea
• The Icelandic Centre for Research, Island
• The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), Großbritannien
• The Netherlands Antarctic Programme (NAAP), Niederlande
• The Polar Research Institute of China, China
• The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, McGill University, Quebec, Kanada
• The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Norwegen
• Université Laval, Québec, Kanada
• Universiteit Utrecht, Niederlande