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Applications for dissemination projects (media, arts…)

Due to budgetary constraints, media, artistic and documentary applications for 2025 and the 2025-2026 campaign have been suspended for the time being. As the situation may change, please come back to this page regularly.

Information to know before applying :

  • Departures are subject to weather conditions and the project may be cancelled up to the day before departure.
  • the trip and stay require a minimum of one month’s availability
  • status is required
  • in the case of the media, a broadcaster must be hired
  • an agreement is drawn up between the broadcaster or producer and the institutes
  • the Polar Institute does not cover the costs of the trip.
  • The average costs are :
    • For a stay at the Dumont d’Urville station in Antarctica: 1988 euros per day spent at the station and per person, including return travel aboard the Astrolabe from the port of Hobart in Tasmania.
    • For a stay at the Concordia station, Antarctica: 2820 euros per person per day spent at the station, including return air travel from Australia/Tasmania or New Zealand.
    • For a stay in the sub-Antarctic islands: approximately 650 euros per day and per person for support with scientific projects, excluding passage on board the Marion Dufresne.
    • For a stay in Ny-Alesund: 360 euros per day per person for support with scientific projects, excluding transport costs and stay in the village.

Given the large number of applications received each year, no application will be processed unless it complies with the following points:

I- Sending by e-mail to communication@ipev.fr a presentation document of the project (maximum of 2 pages) containing at least the following information:

  • Surname, first name, position, name of the scientific project followed (if existing), e-mail, telephone, status.
  • Previous productions or creation
  • Business Card
  • Topic of the report and synopsis: your project will be about local wildlife? are you planning to interview and/or involve people in the field? Do you want to work on current science projects? Etc…
  • Material needed
  • What is/are the medium(s) of dissemination? What would be the number of broadcasts?
  • What communication is planned?
  • Partners involved?
  • Cost coverage?

II- The deadline for receipt of projects is : .

  • 1st April each year for Antarctica
  • At least two months before the planned departure for the Ny Alesund station in Svalbard.
  • For the Subantarctic Islands, all requests go through the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, but prior contact with the French Polar Institute is necessary for requests to accompany scientific teams.

You will receive a reply within a maximum of one month. Please respect this waiting period before making a phone call or renewing your application.

Before sending your application, we advise you to find out more about the missions and places of work of the French Polar Institute and its partners

Contact

Communication department: communication@ipev.fr

Head of the Communication Department: Aude Sonneville, communication@ipev.fr / 02.98.05.65.05 / 06.82.80.22.32

French Polar Institute
Technopôle Brest-Iroise
CS 60 075 – 29280
Plouzané -France
www.institut-polaire.fr

Press release

Press releases published by IPEV are often common to other institutes or research organizations. (When the title is in French, the press release is only in French, if not, you will find the english version).

  • 28 mars 2018 : Retour à la Réunion du patrouilleur polaire « L’Astrolabe » de sa 1ère mission en Antarctique
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