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POLARIN Call for ECR co-authors to develop training material on polar research If you’d like to share your polar fieldwork experience with fellow early career researchers, apply now to join APECS in developing training material for users of polar research infrastructures. As part of POLARIN, APECS is inviting early career researchers to contribute to the development of training material (e.g. guidebooks, knowledge articles or visual summaries) on the usage of polar research infrastructures. We envision participating individuals to dedicate 40-60 hours in total, distributed from February to August 2025. You will be working collaboratively in groups with other early career researchers, coordinated by the POLARIN work package team, to shape the scope of the resources and create training content that will be published and openly accessible through an online training platform, hosted by APECS. Your contribution as authors will be publicly acknowledged. Focus themes of the training material The training material will initially focus on the following themes and you can indicate which topics you are most interested in as well as suggest additional topics. In this process, you have the opportunity to build valuable knowledge through producing training resources that are relevant for potential future teaching and supervision activities. You will also gain experience in the creation and editorial process of training documents. Application Process We welcome applicants that already have relevant field experience but also those that are earlier in their career and have not yet had the chance to conduct polar fieldwork themselves. In either case, you will be able to engage in the discussion around the training content – either by sharing your experience or by informing our planning with regards to which questions we should aim to answer in the material. If you are interested to contribute to the development of POLARIN training material, please submit this application form by 8 January! You can reach out to Axel Schlindwein at the APECS International Directorate (info@apecs.is) with any questions related to this opportunity.  

1st POLARIN Transnational Access Call closed: close to 100 proposals received The 1st POLARIN Transnational Access Call to submit proposals for access to 49 Research Infrastructures (RIs) in both polar regions closed on 28th November 2024, at 16:00 CET. The overwhelming response from the scientific community, reflected in the number of proposals submitted, marks this call as a resounding success. All proposals that meet the eligibility criteria will undergo review and evaluation throughout December 2024, January, and February 2025. Access decisions will be announced in mid-March 2025 via the POLARIN TAP platform. All applicants, regardless of the outcome, will receive detailed feedback on their proposal evaluation. This feedback, along with the access decisions, will be shared through POLARIN TAP. Successful applicants will be invited to sign agreements with the POLARIN Consortium and the respective RIs where access has been granted. For more information about the evaluation and selection process, including detailed evaluation criteria and access priorities, please refer to the Guidelines for Applicants. We extend our gratitude to everyone who dedicated their time and effort to submit proposals. We eagerly anticipate the upcoming evaluation process!  

POLARIN at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2024 POLARIN joined the Arctic Circle Assembly 2024, the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic with participation from governments, organizations, corporations, universities, think tanks, environmental associations, indigenous communities, concerned citizens, and others. The Assembly is held every October in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavík, Iceland. This year’s ACA took place on 17-19 October. POLARIN was featured during the conference at the joint EU Polar Cluster / European Commission booth together with other EU-funded polar research projects, as well as presented by the POLARIN’s Project Manager, Dr. Veronica Willmott,  during the Fondation Tara Océan’s session “Tara Polar Station: Identifying Central Arctic Changes Through Transpolar Drifts”. POLARIN is an EU-funded initiative that brings together an international network of polar research infrastructures. The project will run for five years from March 2024 to February 2029. It aims to address the scientific challenges of polar regions by providing integrated access to a wide array of high-level research infrastructures, including research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic, research vessels, icebreakers, observatories, and data repositories. Previous Next

1st POLARIN Transnational Access Call for proposals is now OPEN! The EU funded project POLARIN invites the scientific community to submit proposals to access 49 Research Infrastructures (RIs) in both polar regions contributing to addressing the key research priorities. POLARIN provides free of charge Transnational Access (TA) to research infrastructures for selected user groups. Transnational access can be either in-person, remote, or a combination of both. A list of participating polar research infrastructures, eligibility criteria, and complete guidelines for the application process can be found here. The proposals applying to the POLARIN TA call must be submitted through the POLARIN Transnational Access Platform (POLARIN TAP) on-line system by the proposal deadline. Late submissions and submissions via any other channel will not be accepted. Deadline for submission of proposals is 28th of November 2024, 4 pm CET.  The access decisions will be announced in mid-March 2025 via the POLARIN TAP. POLARIN is an EU-funded initiative that brings together an international network of polar research infrastructures. The project will run for five years from March 2024 to February 2029. It aims to address the scientific challenges of polar regions by providing integrated access to a wide array of high-level research infrastructures, including research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic, research vessels, icebreakers, observatories, and data repositories.