Current Projects

PIK scientists contribute to numerous research projects commissioned by external funders.

In the past 10 years, PIK has conducted over 500 projects funded, for example, through the research programmes of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) or the European Union. This list of current projects is generated from our database (newest first). Separate lists of completed  and all projects from 2007 on are available.

Current projects at PIK:

EU_post2030

EU_post2030
Jun 26, 2023 - Sep 02, 2024
Funded by: EU
Contact: Michael Pahle

Climate-nature scenarios

Climate-Nature Risk Scenarios
Jun 10, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
Funded by: Nature Finance
Contact: Miodrag Stevanovic

GESUND

GEmüse für Schulen – UNtersuchung des Einflusses von Schulgärten in Deutschland auf die Ernährung
Jun 01, 2023 - Nov 30, 2023
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Amanda Wendt

ACCREU

Assessing Climate Change Risk in Europe
Jun 01, 2023 - Nov 30, 2026
Funded by: European Commission
Contact: Franziska Piontek

Agrica_Ethiopia

Strengthening climate-resilient land and natural resource management in Ethiopia
Apr 01, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
Funded by: GIZ
Contact: Lisa Murken

AgrImpact

Evaluating the impact of agroecological practices on farm system resilience in Madagascar
Apr 01, 2023 - Sep 30, 2025
Funded by: BMZ
Contact: Lisa Murken

NCS SIM

Towards improved simulations of NCS potentials
Mar 01, 2023 - May 31, 2025
Funded by: Conservation International
Contact: Christoph Müller, Johan Rockström

CriticaL

Landscape Criticality in the Anthropocene - Biodiversity, Renewables, and Settlements
Mar 01, 2023 - Feb 28, 2026
Funded by: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Contact: Diego Rybski

CCH CP2_2 - RD2

Climate Change and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa - CP2. Provision of climate and bio-physical forcing data for health impact projections
Jan 01, 2023 - Dec 31, 2025
Funded by: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Fred Hattermann

NGFS IV

Network for Greening the Financial System
Jan 01, 2023 - Dec 31, 2024
Funded by: Climate Works Foundation
Contact: Elmar Kriegler

EC-WG1-TIPMIP

Tipping Point Model Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP) with the Earth Commission
Jan 01, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
Funded by: Rockefeller Philantrophy Advisors
Contact: Ricarda Winkelmann

COMMITTED

Climate pOlicy assessment and Mitigation Modeling to Integrate national and global TransiTion pathways for Environmental-friendly Development
Jan 01, 2023 - Jun 30, 2026
Funded by: EU
Contact: Elmar Kriegler

MonteVitis

Integrating a comprehensive European approach for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Montenegro viticulture
Jan 01, 2023 - Dec 31, 2025
Funded by: EU, Horizon Europe
Contact: Christoph Menz

HOLMES

Grant objective: to identify and assess the climate policy levers that would result from a possible socialization of a substantial portion of Berlin's building stock.
Dec 31, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023
Funded by: European Climate Foundation
Contact: Peter Paul Pichler

AfriValue

Recommendations to avoid climate change-related effects in East African coffee value chains
Dec 01, 2022 - Dec 31, 2026
Funded by: BMZ
Contact: Christoph Gornott

CWEH Usbekistan

Klimawandel, Potenzial für erneuerbare Energien und Gesundheit der Bevölkerung in Usbekistan
Dec 01, 2022 - Nov 30, 2024
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Iulii Didovets

SCARF

Scaling agroforestry for holistic climate resilience-building in rural Tanzania
Dec 01, 2022 - Nov 30, 2025
Funded by: BMU
Contact: Christoph Gornott

Global Hydrogen Futures

Modelling of Global Hydrogen Futures (Modellierung globaler Wasserstoffszenarien)
Nov 01, 2022 - Oct 30, 2026
Funded by: Bosch-Forschungsstiftung
Contact: Gunnar Luderer, Falko Ueckerdt

DecLaRe

Decision support for strengthening land resilience in the face of global challenges
Nov 01, 2022 - Oct 31, 2026
Funded by: BMBF/DLR
Contact: Christoph Gornott

OCEAN:ICE

Ocean Cryosphere Exchanges in Antarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth system
Nov 01, 2022 - Oct 31, 2026
Funded by: EU, Horizon Europe
Contact: Ricarda Winkelmann

PyMiCCS

Pyrogenic carbon and carbonating minerals (PyMiCCS) for enhanced plant growth and carbon capture and storage - Teilprojekt 4: Bewertung des wirtschaftlichen Potentials
Oct 15, 2022 - Oct 14, 2024
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Alexander Popp, Isabelle Weindl

DKT Tourismus

NKI: Konzeption und Pilotierung des Deutschen Klimafonds Tourismus
Oct 01, 2022 - Sep 30, 2025
Funded by: BMWK
Contact: Prof. Helga Weisz

DIRECTED

Disaster Resilience for Extreme Climate Events providing interoperable data, models, communication and governance
Oct 01, 2022 - Sep 30, 2026
Funded by: EU, Horizon Europe
Contact: Fred Hattermann

WETHorizons

Upgrading knowledge and solutions to fast-track wetland restoration across Europe
Sep 01, 2022 - Aug 31, 2026
Funded by: EU, Horizon Europe
Contact: Florian Humpenöder

RESCUE

Response of the Earth System to overshoot, Climate neUtrality and negative Emissions
Sep 01, 2022 - Aug 31, 2026
Funded by: EU, Horizon Europe
Contact: Nico Bauer

Re-Livestock

Facilitating Innovations for Resilient Livestock Farming Systems
Sep 01, 2022 - Aug 31, 2027
Funded by: EU, Horizon Europe
Contact: Susanne Rolinski

BG-Water

Global Blue-Green Water Assessment
Aug 16, 2022 - Sep 30, 2024
Funded by: Netherlands Enterprise Agency
Contact: Johan Rockström

SpreeWasser:N

Adaption an Wasser-Extremereignisse: Dürremanagement, integrierte Wasserbewirtschaftungskonzepte und verbesserte Wasserspeicherung in der Region Berlin-Brandenburg
Aug 01, 2022 - Jul 31, 2025
Funded by: BMBF, PTKA-WTE
Contact: Hagen Koch

CLIMVEST

Climate Impact Investing – Der Beitrag Nachhaltiger Geldanlagen zur Erreichung der Klimaziele (Climvest)
Aug 01, 2022 - Jul 31, 2025
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Kai Lessmann

ABCDR

Agroforestry’s Biophysical potentials for CDR and Decision making across scales
Aug 01, 2022 - Jul 31, 2025
Funded by: BMBF/DLR
Contact: Benjamin Bodirsky