Coordination Funds

优先计划的目的是允许德国大学的科学家利用例如不来梅港阿尔弗雷德·韦格纳极地和海洋研究所(AWI)的后勤，在南极洲和北极开展独立的项目。也正是为此目的，AWI运营德意志联邦共和国拥有的“Polarstein”号科考船以及南极洲的Georg von Neumayer研究站。在DFG的这一协调计划中资助的科学家，根据可用能力免费提供基础设施，而DFG只承担直接的项目成本(人员、设备、消耗品等)。以及探险者的旅行和交通费用。在当前方案阶段(2019-2024年)，研究的重点是四个主要研究主题：·通往低纬度的门户·气候系统组成部分的动态·对气候变化的反应·增进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