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

Completed Projects

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

AQUA DIVA follow-up (Gleixner) Importance of biological drivers and the water transport for the explanation of biodiversity effects on carbon and nitrogen storage in the soil 7/2016 - 6/2025 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Gerd Gleixner

AQUA DIVA follow-up (Trumbore) Exploring mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning 8/2016 - 6/2025 (DFG ) project webpage Contact: Susan Trumbore

ATTOplus Earth system and climate studies at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) 8/2021 - 7/2024 (BMBF ) project webpage Grant ID: 01LK2101A Contact: Susan Trumbore

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

Biodiversity Exploratories Biodiversity Exploratories 5/2014 - 12/2023 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Marion Schrumpf, Susan Trumbore

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

ESM2025 Earth system models for the future 6/2021 - 5/2025 (EU, HORIZON 2020) project webpage Contact: Nuno Carvalhais, Sönke Zaehle

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

FÖV Early warning system for ecosystem changes (project extension) 10/2016 - 4/2023 (Zwillenberg-Tietz-Stiftung) project webpage Contact: Gerd Gleixner

ICOS-ERIC Inverse modeling of GHG fluxes using the CarboScope regional inversion system 4/2012 - 12/2025 (DWD) Contact: Christoph Gerbig

ITMS-M Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System for Germany - Modelling, Phase 1 (Demonstration Phase) - CSR-Inversion 12/2021 - 2/2026 (BMBF) 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

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 Multi-hazard and systemic framework for enhancing risk-informed management and decision-making in the E.U. 9/2021 - 8/2025 (EU Horizon 2020) project webpage Grant ID: 101003276 Contact: René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank

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 (ERC synergy grant)) 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

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, ERC synergy grant) project webpage Grant ID: 855187 Contact: Markus Reichstein

XAIDA Extreme Events: Artificial Intellegence for Detection and Attribution 9/2021 - 8/2025 (EU Horizon 20202) project webpage Grant ID: 101003469 Contact: Ana Bastos, Markus Reichstein