Third-party Projects
As a member of the German Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the institute is jointly funded by the German government and the State of Thuringia. Approximately 25% of the overall institute's funding has been successfully acquired from competitive third-party grants in the past 5 years.
Scientific research projects funded through the basic Max Planck Society budget can be found on the web pages of our departments and research groups. In addition, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry pursues collaborative research projects (listed below) that are competitively acquired from third parties, e.g. European Commission (EU), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and other national ministries.
For any questions regarding third-party grants, please contact our BGC Grants Team
Current Projects
| 14Constraint Radiocarbon constraints for models of C cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: from process understanding to global benchmarking 12/2016 - 11/2021 (EU-H2020, ERC advanced grant) project webpage Grant ID: 695101 Contact: Susan Trumbore |  |
| 4C Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century 6/2019 - 5/2023 (EU/Horizon 2020) project webpage Grant ID: 821003 Contact: Sönke Zaehle |  |
| Balzan Award Carbon and Water Cycling in a Changing Amazon 1/2022 - 12/2024 (Internat. Foundation Prize E. Balzan Fond, Zürich) Contact: Susan Trumbore |  |
| CASPER Modelling the effect of silcon and calcium avaibility on the future sustainability of Arctic permafrost carbon pools on laboratory and field experiments 12/2018 - 11/2021 (DFG) Contact: Mathias Göckede |  |
| ClimGrasHydro Ecohydrology of mountain grassland under global change: mechanisms and consequences 5/2019 - 4/2022 (DFG) Contact: Sönke Zaehle |  |
| CoCO2 Prototype system for a Copernicus CO2 service 1/2021 - 12/2023 (EU, HORIZON 2020) Contact: Martin Jung |  |
| COS-SIF Constraining terrestrial gross primary productivity by joint measurements of the carbonyl sulfide exchange and sun-induced fluorescence 10/2019 - 9/2022 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Mirco Migliavacca |  |
| DeepCube Big data technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Copernicus 1/2021 - 12/2023 (H2020-SPACE-2020) project webpage Grant ID: 101004188 Contact: Nuno Carvalhais |  |
| E-SHAPE EuroGEOSS Showcases: Applications Powered by Europe 5/2019 - 4/2023 (Horizon 2020, Unterauftrag CMCC) project webpage Grant ID: 820852 Contact: Markus Reichstein, Martin Jung |  |
| ESA-CCI RECCAP-2 REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes, Phase 2 7/2020 - 1/2022 (ESA) project webpage Contact: Ana Bastos |  |
| ESM2025 Earth system models for the future 6/2021 - 5/2025 (EU, HORIZON 2020) project webpage Contact: Nuno Carvalhais, Sönke Zaehle |  |
| Extreme Events Extreme Events: Building Climate Resilient Societies 1/2019 - 12/2021 (VW-Stiftung ) project webpage Contact: Markus Reichstein |  |
| Flora Incognita++ Flora Incognita – Systematic and reliable monitoring of German flora as a citizen science challenge 8/2019 - 7/2024 (BfN, TMUEN, MPI für BGC) project webpage Contact: Jana Wäldchen |  |
| FOR 5000 Biotic interactions, species communities and eco-evolutionary dynamics as control variables of long-term relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions 1/2020 - 12/2024 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Gerd Gleixner und Markus Lange |  |
| ICOS-ERIC Inverse modeling of GHG fluxes using the CarboScope regional inversion system 4/2012 - 12/2025 (DWD) Contact: Christoph Gerbig |  |
| INTAROS Integrated Arctic Observation System 12/2016 - 11/2021 (EU-H2020) project webpage Grant ID: 727890 Contact: Mathias Goeckede |  |
| LCC Land Surface Carbon Constellation Study 10/2020 - 3/2023 (ESA, Sub-Contract with Lund University) project webpage Contact: Sönke Zaehle, Mirco Migliavacca |  |
| MAdLand Experimental fossilization of lipids from early plants - Reconstruction of the beginning of terrestrialization using a comparative approach using modern bryophytes and sediments from the Cambrian to Silurian 1/2020 - 7/2023 (DFG) Contact: Christian Hallmann |  |
| METHANE+ Combining SWIR and TIR CH4 satellite observations to assess sources and sinks on regional and global scale 1/2020 - 1/2022 (ESA, Sub-Contract mit SRON (No 4000129987/20/I-DT)) project webpage Contact: Sönke Zaehle, Julia Marshall |  |
| Monitoring biodiversity from space Monitoring biodiversity from space: exploring the potentials of ESA’s Copernicus and German national EO missions 1/2020 - 6/2022 (BMWi) Contact: Mirco Migliavacca |  |
| MYRIAD-EU Multi-hazard and sYstemic framework for enhancing Risk-Informed mAnagement and Decision-making in the E.U. 9/2021 - 8/2025 (EU-HORIZON 2020) Grant ID: 101003276 Contact: Dorothea Frank, René Orth |  |
| NUNATARYUK Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation 11/2017 - 10/2022 (EU/ Horizon 2020) project webpage Grant ID: 773421 Contact: Mathias Göckede |  |
| oBEF-Accross 2 The potential of Earth observation to capture patterns of biodiversity European forests and analyze their resilience 1/2020 - 6/2022 (BMWi, DLR) project webpage Contact: Mirco Migliavacca |  |
| PrOB Project Office BIOMASS 7/2020 - 4/2023 (DLR) project webpage Contact: Nuno Carvalhais, Markus Reichstein |  |
| QUINCY Quantifying the effects of interacting nutrient cycles on terrestrial biosphere dynamics and their climate feedbacks 9/2015 - 8/2021 (EU, ERC consolidator grant) project webpage Grant ID: 647204 Contact: Sönke Zaehle |  |
| RiGHGorous Research for an integrated GreenHouse Gas monitoring system and for its use at DWD 1/2020 - 1/2023 (BMVI) Contact: Christoph Gerbig |  |
| STELLAR Stable isotope metrology to enable climate action and regulation 9/2020 - 8/2023 (HORIZON 2020 und EURAMET) project webpage Grant ID: 864769 Contact: Heiko Moossen |  |
| SUBSOM The forgotten part of carbon cycling: Organic matter storage and turnover in subsoils 12/2017 - 12/2021 (DFG / Weiterleitg. Uni Bochum) project webpage Contact: Markus Reichstein, Marion Schrumpf |  |
| TransTiP Geoecosystems in transition on the Tibet Plateau 1/2019 - 6/2022 (DFG, Weiterleitungsvertrag mit TU Braunschweig) Contact: Carlos Sierra |  |
| USMILE Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning 9/2020 - 8/2026 ((EU/ Horizon 2020)) project webpage Grant ID: 855187 Contact: Markus Reichstein |  |
| VERIFY Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases 1/2018 - 12/2021 (EU/ Horizon 2020) project webpage Grant ID: 776810 Contact: Martin Jung, Christoph Gerbig |  |
| XAIDA Extreme events: Artificial Intelligence for detection and attribution 9/2021 - 8/2025 (EU-H2020) Grant ID: 101003469 Contact: Markus Reichstein |  |