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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!  

Join discussion on the Catalyst Platform Are you one of the applicants or considering to apply for the 1st POLARIN Transnational Access Call? If you want to get in touch with other applicants, join the discussion group on the Catalyst platform. Register on the Calatyst platform with your email address https://polarcatalyst.eu/register Go to “Discussions” page that can be found under “Tools” https://polarcatalyst.eu/discussions Find the POLARIN discussion group titled “POLARIN-1st-call”on the left side of the page Click on “Subscribe” next to the name of this discussion group (at top of the page), so you get a notification by email whenever there is a new message in this discussion. Explore more news and events from the polar research community on the Catalyst website: https://polarcatalyst.eu/ About Catalyst: Catalyst is a platform designed to foster collaboration among polar researchers. Visit it for news, events, calls and assessing documents about polar research and policy, as well as to collaborate with other researchers, by joining the discussion forum.

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

Would you like to join the POLARIN Expert Pool and participate in the review process of proposals submitted to the POLARIN Transnational Access calls? The EU funded project POLARIN – Polar Research Infrastructure Network – is seeking experts from various fields of polar research, from natural sciences to human dimension, to join an international pool of experts to contribute to the scientific evaluation of Transnational Access applications. Volunteer to the POLARIN Expert Pool here and indicate the field of your expertise. How it works? If your expertise matches our needs, the POLARIN Evaluation Secretariat will contact you to invite you for potential review assignment(s).  Invited experts will submit their reviews via secure connection in the POLARIN Transnational Access Platform (POLARIN TAP) on-line system, where guidelines to conduct the reviews will be provided.  The identity of the reviewers is confidential and will not be disclosed to any applicant.  The invited experts also sign a confidentiality clause and a declaration of no conflict of interest prior to their evaluations. The currently ongoing Transnational Access call 2024 is open until the 28th of November, with scientific evaluations taking place in December-January 2024. The invited experts will be asked to provide reviews of individual applications, presumably requiring altogether one to two hours of their working time. There is no financial compensation for these evaluations, but a certificate will be provided to demonstrate their contribution as Expert Evaluator in POLARIN. In addition, serving as a reviewer allows one to learn what’s new in the field, to develop critical thinking skills essential to research, and to improve one’s own writing. Early Career Researchers including post doctoral fellows are welcome to register.  Since successive (yearly) calls will be issued till the end of the POLARIN project, the Expert Pool will be in function until the end of the project (28th of February 2029), after which it will automatically close and all information in the pool will be deleted. The data submitted by filling the form will only be used for the purpose of volunteering to the POLARIN Expert Pool as a reviewer. Your data will not be disclosed to third parties and you can at any time resign or ask to modify your information by e-mailing to the POLARIN Evaluation Secretariat at polarin_evaluation_secretariat[at]ogs.it Join the POLARIN Expert Pool! Would you like to join the POLARIN Expert Pool and participate in the review process of proposals submitted to the POLARIN Transnational Access calls? The EU funded project POLARIN – Polar Research Infrastructure Network – is seeking experts from various fields of polar research, from natural sciences to human dimension, to join an international pool of experts to contribute to the scientific evaluation of Transnational Access applications. Volunteer to the POLARIN Expert Pool here and indicate the field of your expertise. How it works? If your expertise matches our needs, the POLARIN Evaluation Secretariat will contact you to invite you for potential review assignment(s).  Invited experts will submit their reviews via secure connection in the POLARIN Transnational Access Platform (POLARIN TAP) on-line system, where guidelines to conduct the reviews will be provided.  The identity of the reviewers is confidential and will not be disclosed to any applicant.  The invited experts also sign a confidentiality clause and a declaration of no conflict of interest prior to their evaluations. The currently ongoing Transnational Access call 2024 is open until the 28th of November, with scientific evaluations taking place in December-January 2024. The invited experts will be asked to provide reviews of individual applications, presumably requiring altogether one to two hours of their working time. There is no financial compensation for these evaluations, but a certificate will be provided to demonstrate their contribution as Expert Evaluator in POLARIN. In addition, serving as a reviewer allows one to learn what’s new in the field, to develop critical thinking skills essential to research, and to improve one’s own writing. Early Career Researchers including post doctoral fellows are welcome to register.  Since successive (yearly) calls will be issued till the end of the POLARIN project, the Expert Pool will be in function until the end of the project (28th of February 2029), after which it will automatically close and all information in the pool will be deleted. The data submitted by filling the form will only be used for the purpose of volunteering to the POLARIN Expert Pool as a reviewer. Your data will not be disclosed to third parties and you can at any time resign or ask to modify your information by e-mailing to the POLARIN Evaluation Secretariat at polarin_evaluation_secretariat[at]ogs.it Volunteer to the POLARIN Expert Pool here Estimated time to volunteer is only few minutes.

Webinar introducing 1st POLARIN Transnational Access Call

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.

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