Press - AWI

Berlin hosts the Arctic Circle Forum

[08. May 2024] Over the past two days, Berlin hosted the Arctic Circle Forum. More than 100 speakers, including Arctic researchers, policy makers and indigenous representatives, took part in over 20 sessions. In addition to AWI Director Antje Boetius, participants included Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke, Icelandic Research Minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir and H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Antarctic cooperation

Annalena Baerbock is travelling to Australia and Oceania

[06. May 2024] Australia, New Zealand, Fiji: Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is traveling to the key region of the Indo-Pacific. AWI scientist Markus Rex is part of the delegation trip from May 1 to 7. At a meeting with New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters, Markus Rex, representing the AWI, signed a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA) with New Zealand's Antarctic Authority on cooperation in the Antarctic. The core of the Antarctic Treaty System is international cooperation in science. Further information.

AWI Logistics Coordinator new Chairman at FARO

[06. May 2024] During the annual Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in Scotland, Dirk Mengedoht, Logistics Coordinator at the AWI for land expeditions and stations in the Arctic, was elected as the new Chairman of the Forum of Arctic Research Operators (FARO). During his three-year term of office, Dirk Mengedoht intends to focus primarily on the transparency and networking of various committees and initiatives with FARO in order to better combine parallel approaches, e.g. with regard to safety in the field.

10 years of international promotion of young talent

[02. May 2024] After 10 years, the "NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography" program for the international promotion of young scientists at the AWI is moving on to Canada. The end of the project was celebrated at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. 100 alumni of the program from all over the world were invited to the evening event, 73 of whom were able to attend. AWI Deputy Director Karen Wiltshire hosted the evening, which was celebrated in the museum's dinosaur hall.

POLARIN Kick-off meeting

[29. April 2024] POLARIN (Polar Research Infrastructure Network) - the new EU project at the AWI has now officially started: The kick-off meeting took place from April 17 to 19 in Bremerhaven. Almost 100 representatives came together to discuss the implementation of the project. The aim of POLARIN is to establish an international network of polar research infrastructures and their services in order to tackle the scientific challenges of the polar regions.