Research Infrastructures

Scientific marine research and monitoring can only be successful if technology is available that works reliably with utmost precision even under extreme conditions. Within the framework of the scientific marine research, the BMBF supports the development ...

Precondition for the exploration of the seas are modern research vessels with the appropriate scientific equipment. Therefore, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) contributes to the cost of construction and operation of research vessels ...

Underwater vehicles

With the establishment of the new Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology the German Federal Government and the BMBF aim to strengthen strategically important research competences in Germany for a secure and sustainable supply of raw ...

IAGOS is a European research infrastructure belonging to the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI Roadmap).

With the BMBF-funded project "Integrated Carbon Observation System" (ICOS) a research infrastructure and thus a network of continuous, high-quality and standardized greenhouse gas measurements across Europe was established.

The atmospheric measurement tower ATTO is 325 m high and the core component of a field observatory in the Brazilian Amazon region.

(only available in German) Flugzeuge sind unverzichtbare Werkzeuge, wenn man die unzugänglichen, eisbedeckten Gebiete in Arktis und Antarktis erforschen will. Die beiden deutschen Polarflugzeuge POLAR 5 und 6 sind am Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) ...

A platform for exploring the global issues facing society in the future – that is the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. IASS scientists here pursue transdisciplinary research on an international level in the areas of ...

Networking knowledge. Making knowledge usable. Communicating information.

Climate change is complex and is not only determined by greenhouse gases. Less well known is the significance of natural and man-made particles in the air, the so-called aerosols, simplistically also referred to as particulate matter.