Coordination Funds

“优先计划”的目的是让德国大学的科学家们在南极洲开展独立的项目，并利用不来梅港阿尔弗雷德·韦格纳极地与海洋研究所（AWI）的后勤支持，在北极进行比较。也正是为了这个目的，AWI经营德意志联邦共和国所有的“北极星号”科考船，以及在南极洲的格奥尔格·冯·诺伊迈尔科考站。在DFG这个协调项目中获得资助的科学家，根据现有能力免费提供基础设施，而DFG只承担项目的直接费用（人员、设备、消耗品等）以及探险参与者的旅费和交通费。在目前的项目阶段（2019-2024），研究将集中在四个总体研究主题上：•通往低纬度的门户•气候系统组成部分的动力学•对气候变化的响应•提高对极地过程和机制的理解

The aim of the Priority Program is to allow scientists at German universities to carry out independent projects in Antarctica and, for comparisons, also in the Arctic, using the logistics, for example, of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. It is also for this purpose, that the AWI operates the research vessel “Polarstern”, which is owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the Georg von Neumayer Research Station in Antarctica. Scientists, who are funded in this coordinated program of the DFG, are provided with the infrastructure free of charge according to available capacities, while the DFG only bears direct project costs (personnel, equipment, consumables, etc.) as well as travel and transport costs of expedition participants. In the current program phase (2019-2024), research is intended to focus on four overarching research topics:• Gateways to lower latitudes• Dynamics of climate system components• Responses to climate change• Improved understanding of polar processes and mechanisms