Who funds Arctic research?

We count 101 funded Arctic projects, active between 2021 and 2031, from 6 funders. The most came from EU · MSCA (26 projects), NSF · Office of the Director (18 projects) and EU · ERC (17 projects). The median award is $525K, across the 100 of 101 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

101

Funders

6

Median award

$525K

Open calls now

4

Top funders of Arctic research

Projects whose title or summary mentions Arctic. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open Arctic funding calls

4 open calls mention Arctic today.

• Arctic Field Grant (AFG) – Funding for Fieldwork in Svalbard
  Research Council of NorwayNOK 20,000 – NOK 130,000Deadline: November 11, 2026 ·
• Arctic Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Arctic DDRIG) Arctic Social Sciences, Arctic System Sciences, and Arctic Observing Network (DDRIG)
  U.S. National Science FoundationNot specifiedDeadline: December 15, 2026 ·
• Arctic Research Opportunities
  U.S. National Science FoundationUp to $330,000Deadline: January 15, 2027 ·
• Governance, sustainable development and international politics of a future ice-free Arctic
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €8,000,000Deadline: September 23, 2027 ·

Funded Arctic projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Global Characteristics, Predictability, and Future Projections of Polar Subtropical Jet Superposition Events
  NSF · GEO · $912,177 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Transport of air pollutants between mid-latitudes and the polar regions: an 800-year perspective from a Russian Arctic ice-core record.
  NSF · Office of the Director · $780,358 · ends 2030
• Collaborative Research: LTREB: Dynamics of Extreme Climate Disturbance in Arctic Lakes (DECaDAL)
  NSF · BIO · $399,959 · ends 2030
• Quantifying How Rain on Snow Events Change Snowpack Properties Using Caribou and Muskoxen as Test Cases
  NSF · Office of the Director · $2,236,536 · ends 2030
• Assessing the role of absorbed solar radiation, clouds, and boreal fire aerosols in the slowdown of Arctic warming and sea ice loss.
  NSF · Office of the Director · $480,261 · ends 2029
• Impact of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions on Greenland’s Ice Melting Rates
  UKRI · NERC · £794,219 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: Trait-based prediction of microbial successional dynamics in thawing permafrost soils
  NSF · BIO · $331,757 · ends 2029
• Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a mobile laser scanning system for 3D research and education in extreme drylands of the southwest border region and the Arctic
  NSF · BIO · $430,684 · ends 2029
• NERC-NSF-GEO Assessing Decadal Variability of sea Ice (ADVIce)
  UKRI · NERC · £531,175 · ends 2029
• The ambler northwest energy tribal energy development organization (ane-tedo), a collaboration between the native village of ambler…
  DOE · $3,435,988 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “arctic”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.