GEOMAR’s institutional funding is provided by the Programme-oriented Funding (PoF) of the Helmholtz Association. Together with other Helmholtz Centres in the research field Earth & Environment, GEOMAR has developed a joint research programme: „Changing Earth – Sustaining our Future“.
In addition, GEOMAR collaborates with numerous partners at local, national, and international level in third-party funded projects. These projects are essential to drive scientific innovation and enable specialised research across disciplinary and national boundaries.
The transdisciplinary research missions of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) address pressing and socially relevant challenges in marine science. GEOMAR participates in all three DAM research missions. The CDRmare mission on marine carbon storage is coordinated at GEOMAR, as are several research consortia within all three missions.
CDRmare
Marine Carbon Sinks in Decarbonisation Pathways
sustainMare
Protection and Sustainable Use of Marine Spaces
mareXtreme
Pathways to Improved Risk Management in the area of Marine Extreme Events and Natural Hazards
The European Research Council (ERC) supports investigator-driven frontier research. GEOMAR is currently coordinating one ERC Advanced Grant and two ERC Synergy Grants. Recipients of Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants can be found on the page Early Career Research Groups.
TRANSFORMERS
Ingo Grevemeyer leads the ERC Advanced Grant TRANSFORMERS, which investigates oceanic transform faults to redefine their role and dynamics in plate tectonics (Start 2023).
T-SECTOR
Martin Frank, Heidrun KoppKaj Hoernle, together with Charlie Langmuir (Harvard, USA) coordinate the ERC Synergy Grant T-SECTOR. The project aims to establish a link between climate and solid Earth processes on glacial-interglacial timescales (Start 2023).
WHIRLS
Arne Biastoch coordinates the ERC Synergy Grant WHIRLS, in collaboration with Sabrina Speich (ENS, Paris), Sebastiaan Swart (Univ. Göteborg) and Sarah Fawcett (Univ. Kapstadt). The project investigates the role of small-scale ocean eddies in climate and ecosystems (Start 2024).
ZOBLUC
investigates, among other things, the carbon storage potential of seagrass meadows in the Baltic Sea (start 2025).
MMinE-SwEEPER
explores ways to recover legacy munitions from the ocean in collaboration with 20 partners from seven EU member states (start 2024)
MiningImpact
investigates the ecological consequences and risks of deep-sea mining (third project phase start 2025).
January, 2023 - December, 2027
Funding body: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Contact: Stefan Sommer
September, 2024 - August, 2027
Funding body: BMBF
Contact: Anja Engel
January, 2025 - December, 2027
Funding body: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Contact: Deniz Tasdemir
November, 2022 - April, 2026
Funding body: DFG
Contact: Eric Achterberg
January, 2021 - May, 2025
Funding body: DFG
Contact: Christopher J. Somes
December, 2023 - November, 2026
Funding body: DFG
Contact: Christopher J. Somes
May, 2023 - April, 2026
Funding body: BMBF
Contact: Christopher Siebert
October, 2025 - September, 2026
Funding body: BMFTR
Contact: Christopher Siebert
