Second Funding Phase for the GIGA's Work on Health and Climate Resilience
Forschung | 14.10.2025
Second Funding Phase for the GIGA's Work on Health and Climate Resilience
The GIGA’s involvement in two major international research networks will continue as part of the DAAD–AA Global Centres initiative, which has now entered its second funding phase (2026–2030). The GIGA is a key partner in both GLACIER and SAGE, focusing respectively on health provision to migrants in Latin America and climate adaptation in the Middle East.
As part of the GLACIER network (German–Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training), the GIGA leads a study on health provision for vulnerable migrant groups in three Latin American countries – a problem recently exacerbated by the withdrawal of USAID and the reduction of funding to the World Health Organization and other international bodies. At the GIGA, Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann coordinates the GLACIER project. The successful cooperation enjoyed with the University of Costa Rica and other regional partners to date will continue.
The SAGE network (Sustainable Adaptation to Global Change in the Middle East) brings together researchers from Germany and the Middle East to explore climate governance, sustainable resource management, and environmental ethics. The GIGA contributes by working on issues of governance, conflict, and cooperation regarding natural resources alongside investigating the political economy of climate adaptation. At the GIGA, Dr. Christiane Fröhlich is coordinator of the SAGE project.
The second phase of the Global Centres initiative will see the continuation and expansion of its vital work through 2030, including by means of ongoing capacity-building, interdisciplinary research, and policy-relevant scholarship.
After highly successful five years, the multi-disciplinary „German-Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training“ (GLACIER) has been awarded another five years of funding to continue its work in the period 2026-2030. GIGA will continue its cooperation with the Universidad de Costa Rica, with a new research project on health provision to migrants in Central America and Colombia. Funded by the DAAD with funds from German Federal Foreign Office.
The overarching goal of SAGE is to contribute to sharing of and exposure to knowledge and capacity-building in disciplines relevant for sustainable resource management, to conduct multilateral, inter- and transdisciplinary research on areas of concern, and to make cutting-edge, relevant research available for decision-makers. DAAD, 2021-2030
Das GIGA ist Teil des neuen, multidisziplinären „German–Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training“ (GLACIER). Das Zentrum bringt führende deutsche und lateinamerikanische Forschungseinrichtungen zu Infektionskrankheiten zusammen.
