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Cooperation & Collaborations

As an internationally renowned research institution, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry enjoys numerous national and international partners in individual research projects and in larger research networks.

Max-Planck partner group in Bhopal

Our Max Planck Partner Group in Bhopal is researching greenhouse gas budgets in India. The group is led by former BGC postdoctoral fellow, now Professor Dr. Dhanyalekshmi K. Pillai, at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal (IISER-B). more

Max-Planck Tandem group in Colombia

Our Max Planck Tandem Group in Colombia researches global forest and wildland fires. It is led by Professor Stijn Hantsen at the Universidad del Rosario. more

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU)

Our partners at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) are the Institutes for Geosciences, Geography, Ökologie, and the Michael Stifel Center Jena.

Earth System Research Partnership (ESRP)

Within the ESRP we closely cooperate with:
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen
More information can be found on the ESRP website.

Max Planck in Jena

With the neighboring Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the nearby Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, we are linked by scientific cooperation, but also by the mutual exchange of resources, information and technology.

International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC)

Deutsches Klima Konsortium (DKK)

The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is member of the German Climate Consortium, a network of renowned German climate research institutions with the mandate to inform society, politicians and the media about current results of climate research and to foster dialogue between these representatives. The DKK was founded in 2008 and is based in Berlin. more

Klimanavigator

Our Institute is as partner of the of the Climate Service Center Germany, a facility of the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht based in Hamburg. The task of this web portal is to meet the increasing need of society for information and advice regarding climate related issues. more

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

Several of our PI's and research groups are partner of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig located in Leipzig. The centre is headed by Director Prof. Christian Wirth, a former group leader of MPI-BGC, who also runs a Max-Planck fellow group at our institute. more

NFDI Consortium Earth System Science (NFDI4Earth)

Several of our researchers and third-party projects are part of NFDI4Earth, a national endeavour which aims to meet the requirements of the different actors in Earth System Sciences. The ambition of NFDI4Earth is to further identify the demands for digital changes in the German Earth System Science community. more