Funding Tracker

The Arctic Region

Funder: ESA

Award: See website

Deadline: Rolling

Region: Europe

Activity: Proof-of-concept, Pilot Projects. Call for Proposals (Non-Competitive). The Arctic, the most northerly region on Earth, is centred on the North Pole and defined as the area North of the Arctic Circle, 66°N. It is known for its polar night, extensive sea ice, tundra landscape, polar climate and cold adapted ecosystems. It is a region that is also disproportionately impacted by climate change, warming three to four times faster than the global average. The melting ice has led to the Arctic becoming a strategic security zone, as competing global powers vie for control of newly accessible shipping routes and abundant natural resources including oil, gas and rare-earth minerals. Rapid snowmelt threatens towns, roads and industrial infrastructure with flooding, while so-called ‘zombie’ or overwintering wildfires burn year-round in the carbon-rich peat, undetected for extensive periods of time before re-emerging to the surface. Thawing permafrost causes land subsidence, destabilisin