Program

MICMoR was an interdisciplinary Research School on ‘Mechanisms and Interactions of Climate Change in Mountain Regions’. Its research focused on the consequences of climate change for biosphere, atmosphere and pedo-/hydrosphere processes in complex mountain terrain. MICMoR was funded by the Helmholtz Association for the period 2012-2020. Based at IMK-IFU, KIT’s Campus Alpin in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, its partners were TUM and LMU in Munich, the Universities of Augsburg, Bayreuth and Würzburg, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Helmholtz Center Munich.

MICMoR’s vision has been to train a new generation of outstanding young scientists to navigate successfully in collaborative climate change research. Between 2012 and 2020 altogether 34 fellows from KIT and 15 other research institutions in 6 countries were part of the program, which embraced scientific and professional skills training and various opportunities of international exchange and collaboration.

Although the funding period of MICMoR has run out by the end of 2020, activities such as the annual MICMoR Summer School will be continued and announced below.