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 Contacts
Current Projects
| 4C Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century 6/2019 - 5/2023 (EU, Horizon 2020) project webpage Grant ID: 821003 Contact: Sönke Zaehle |  |
| AI4Biodiv Artificial intelligence in biodiversity resaerch 10/2020 - 9/2024 (BMBF) project webpage Contact: Jana Wäldchen |  |
| Balzan Award Carbon and Water Cycling in a Changing Amazon 1/2022 - 12/2024 (Internat. Foundation Prize E. Balzan Fond, Zürich) Contact: Susan Trumbore |  |
| BetterWeeds Knowledge-based site-specific analysis for environmentally sustainable weed management in integrated crop production 5/2021 - 4/2024 (Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) ) project webpage Contact: Jana Wäldchen |  |
| 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) project webpage 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: Tarek El-Madany |  |
| DeepCube Big data technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Copernicus 1/2021 - 12/2023 (EU, HORIZON 2020; SPACE-2020) project webpage Grant ID: 101004188 Contact: Nuno Carvalhais |  |
| DUKE Deep-learning-based hybrid uncertainty-aware modeling of the coupled water and carbon cycle with Earth observation data 1/2022 - 12/2023 (DLR-RM-/BMWI-Förderrichtlinie) project webpage Contact: Basil Kraft, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein |  |
| E-SHAPE EuroGEOSS Showcases: Applications Powered by Europe 5/2019 - 4/2023 (EU, 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 |  |
| LCC Land Surface Carbon Constellation Study 10/2020 - 3/2023 (ESA, Sub-Contract with Lund University) project webpage Contact: Sönke Zaehle, Tarek El-Madany |  |
| 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: Javier Pacheco-Labrador |  |
| 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, Markus Reichstein |  |
| Natura Incognita NaturaIncognita - workflow platform for KI-based species identification 12/2020 - 11/2023 (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)) project webpage Contact: Jana Wäldchen |  |
| NFDI4Earth NFDI4Earth 10/2021 - 10/2026 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Markus Reichstein, Fabian Gans |  |
| 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: Javier Pacheco-Labrador |  |
| PAUL Pilot Application in Urban Landscapes - Towards integrated city observatories for greenhouse gases 10/2021 - 9/2025 (EU, HORIZON 2020) Grant ID: 101037319 Contact: Armin Jordan, Christoph Gerbig |  |
| PrOB Project Office BIOMASS 7/2020 - 4/2023 (DLR) project webpage Contact: Nuno Carvalhais, Markus Reichstein |  |
| Q-ARCTIC Quantify disturbance impacts on feedbacks between Arctic permafrost and global climate 10/2021 - 9/2027 (EU, HORIZON 2020) project webpage Grant ID: 951288 Contact: Annett Bartsch, Victor Brovkin, Mathias Göckede, Martin Heimann |  |
| 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 (EU, 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, HORIZON 2020) Grant ID: 101003469 Contact: Markus Reichstein, Ana Bastos |  |