Current Projects

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

In the past 10 years, PIK has conduced over 500 projects funded, for example, through the research programmes of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) or the European Union. The list is generated from our database, which contains current and completed projects from 2007 on (newest first).

SHAPE

Sustainable development pathways achieving Human well-being while safeguarding the climate And Planet Earth
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Elmar Kriegler

RECEIPT - RD4

REmote Climate Effects and their Impact on European sustainability, Policy and Trade
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
Funded by: European Commission, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
Contact: Anders Levermann, Sven Willner

RECEIPT - RD3

REmote Climate Effects and their Impact on European sustainability, Policy and Trade
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Katja Frieler

NEMACS

Nonlinear Empirical Mode Analysis of Complex Systems: Development of General Approach and Applications in Climate
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2022
Funded by: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Norbert Marwan

NAVIGATE

Next generation of AdVanced InteGrated Assessment modelling to support climaTE policy making
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Elmar Kriegler

MECCA

Targeting Mental Models of Climate Change Risk to facilitate Climate Action
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Stefan Liersch

MAPPY

Multisectoral analysis of climate and land use change impacts on pollinators, plant diversity and crops yields
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Christoph Müller

LAMACLIMA

Land Management for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Alexander Popp

ENGAGE

Exploring National and Global Actions to reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Elmar Kriegler, Christoph Bertram

CROSSDRO

Cross-sectoral impact assessment of droughts in complex European basins
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Tobias Conradt

CHIPS

Climate Change Impacts and Policies in Heterogeneous Societies
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Franziska Piontek

CASCADES RD3

CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Katja Frieler

CASCADES RD2

CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Christopher Reyer

CASCADES RD1

CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies
Sep 01, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Ilona Otto

DemoKon

Eine neue Konfliktkultur für die Energiewende
Aug 01, 2019 - Jul 31, 2022
Funded by: Stiftung Mercator
Contact: F. Reusswig

LOD-GEOSS

Linked Open Data und Nutzung des Globalen Erdbeobachtungssystems GEOSS in der Energiesystemanalyse
Aug 01, 2019 - Jul 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Gunnar Luderer

FOCUS

Food security and sustained coastal livelihoods through linking land and ocean and bio-economy
Aug 01, 2019 - Jul 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF, PTJ
Contact: Hermann Lotze-Campen

2050 CliMobCity

2050 Climate-friendly Mobility in Cities
Aug 01, 2019 - Jul 31, 2023
Funded by: EU - European Union
Contact: Diego Rybski

BYMARKA

Environmental Footprints of Cities: A New Approach
Jul 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2021
Funded by: Norwegian Research Council
Contact: Helga Weisz

ExSyCo-Grid

Extended synchronization on complex networks and dynamic stability in future powergrids
Jul 01, 2019 - Jun 30, 2022
Funded by: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Frank Hellmann

Network Models

Network models for climate studies
Jun 01, 2019 - May 31, 2021
Funded by: DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
Contact: Jürgen Kurths

I-MAESTRO

Innovative forest MAnagEment STrategies for a Resilient biOeconomy under climate change. Innovative Waldbewirtschaftungsstrategien für eine resiliente Bioökonomie unter zunehmenden Risiken
Jun 01, 2019 - May 30, 2022
Funded by: BMEL, PT FNR Fachagentur für nachwachsende Rohstoffe
Contact: Christopher Reyer, Martin Gutsch

SALBES

Scenarios for Agricultural Landscapes’ Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
May 01, 2019 - Apr 30, 2022
Funded by: BMBF, VDI/VDE-IT, Berlin
Contact: Tobias Conradt

ISI-Access

Development of a guidance system for using the ISIMIP data repository: new approaches to formal and content-related quality checks.
Apr 01, 2019 - Mar 31, 2022
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Matthias Mengel, Martin Park

XMELT

Impact of extreme melt events on the future mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Mar 18, 2019 - Mar 17, 2022
Funded by: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Ricarda Winkelmann

CAFE

Climate Advanced Forecasting of sub-seasonal Extremes
Mar 01, 2019 - Feb 28, 2023
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Jürgen Kurths

OPTES

Optimierung von Testdesigns zur Darstellung der Freiheit von Populationen von Infektionen
Mar 01, 2019 - Feb 28, 2022
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Jobst Heitzig

elena

electricity network analysis
Jan 01, 2019 - Apr 30, 2022
Funded by: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Contact: Frank Hellmann

ROCHADE

Klimapolitik und Vermeidungsstrategien in global vernetzten und sich entwickelnden Volkswirtschaften: Die Rolle von Strukturwandel und Verteilungseffekten (ROCHADE)
Jan 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2021
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Marian Leimbach

HASH

Hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Jan 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2021
Funded by: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Ricarda Winkelmann

DBU-Stipendium Beier

Sicherstellung einer ökonomisch effizienten, gerechten und ökologisch nachhaltigen Allokation von globalen Süsswasserressourcen
Jan 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2021
Funded by: DBU
Contact: Felicitas Beier

CoNDyNet2

Kollektive Nichtlineare Dynamik komplexer Stromnetze
Jan 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2021
Funded by: BMBF, PTJ
Contact: Jürgen Kurths

PEGASOS

Ökonomie des Klimawandels - Verbundprojekt: Die politische Ökonomie eines globalen Kohleausstiegs - Teilprojekt 3: Modellierung und Szenarienanalysen
Dec 01, 2018 - Nov 30, 2021
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Nico Bauer

IF

Ökonomie des Klimawandels - Verbundprojekt: Instrumente für die Finanzierung emissionsarmer Infrastruktur und deren Bedeutung für die Klimapolitik (IF) Teilprojekt 1: Verbundkoordination und Analyse des Potentials von Infrastrukturfonds
Dec 01, 2018 - Nov 30, 2021
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Kai Lessmann

C2P2

A Symbiotic Agent-Based Network Platform Linking Expert Knowledge and Machine Learning for Systemic Risk Mitigation
Dec 01, 2018 - Feb 28, 2022
Funded by: Columbia University
Contact: Christian Otto, Berhard Schauberger

ADAPT

Assisting Households to Adapt to Climate Change
Dec 01, 2018 - Sep 30, 2022
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Kati Krähnert

SLICE

Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Climate Extremes - identifying key impact channels and effective strategies for long-term economic development under climate change
Nov 01, 2018 - Oct 30, 2021
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Christian Otto

MOLTEN-Nagra

Modeling of long-term future climate evolution using a hierarchy of Earth system models
Nov 01, 2018 - Nov 30, 2021
Funded by: nagra Nationale Genossenschaft für die Lagerung radioaktiver Abfälle
Contact: Andrey Ganopolski

CLIMASTEPPE

The potentials of Russian steppes to reduce Green House Gases (GHG) emissions
Nov 01, 2018 - Jun 30, 2021
Funded by: BMBF, PT DLR
Contact: Christoph Müller/Susanne Rolinski

CLIC

Climate Impact Chains in a Globalized World: a Challenge for Germany (CLIC) - Computing economic impacts of global weather extremes on Europe
Nov 01, 2018 - Oct 31, 2021
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Anders Levermann

BeSmart

Ökonomie des Klimawandels - Verbundprojekt: Intelligente Strommessung und dynamische Tarife: Konsumentscheidung, rechtliche Rahmensetzung und Wohlfahrtseffekte (BeSmart) Teilprojekt 2
Nov 01, 2018 - Oct 30, 2021
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Michael Pahle

ImpactEE

Impact of intensified weather extremes on Europe's economy
Oct 01, 2018 - Sep 30, 2023
Funded by: VW-Stiftung
Contact: Leonie Wenz

FFF

Ökonomie des Klimawandels - Verbundprojekt: Die Zukunft fossiler Energieträger im Zuge der Treibhausgasneutralität (FFF) - Teilprojekt 3: Europäische Interaktion
Oct 01, 2018 - Sep 30, 2021
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Michael Pahle

DIPOL

Deep Transformation Scenarios for Informing the Climate Policy Discourse
Sep 01, 2018 - Aug 31, 2021
Funded by: BMBF
Contact: Elmar Kriegler

Clim4Vitis

Climate change impacts for European viticulture: towards an integrated approach
Sep 01, 2018 - Feb 28, 2022
Funded by: EU, H2020
Contact: Thomas Kartschall

OptAKlim

Optimierung von Anbaustrategien und -verfahren zur Klimaanpassung/Analyse und Bewertung auf Landschaftsebene unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Interaktionen mit dem Pflanzenschutz, der Produktivität, der Fruchtartenverteilungen und den THG-Emissionen
Aug 21, 2018 - Oct 20, 2021
Funded by: BMEL, PT BLE
Contact: Tobias Conradt

ProgRAMM

Proaktive Pflanzengesundheitliche Risikoanalyse durch Modellierung und Monitoring: Anpassung an langfristige Risiken durch klimasensitive Schadorganismen
Aug 15, 2018 - Jan 14, 2022
Funded by: BMEL, PT BLE
Contact: Christoph Menz

GIS-TIP

On the importance of rapid dynamics for the stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Jul 01, 2018 - Jun 30, 2021
Funded by: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Ricarda Winkelmann

IMpeTUs

Climate Change Impacts on Migration and Urbanization
Mar 01, 2018 - Aug 31, 2021
Funded by: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Contact: Diego Rybski/ Jacob Schewe

TransformAdapt

Vom Mainstreaming zur transformativen Anpassung an den Klimawandel
Feb 15, 2018 - Jun 30, 2021
Funded by: UBA - Umweltbundesamt
Contact: Fritz Reusswig