Third Party Grants
Current projects funded through grants outside of the Max Planck system
Our researchers are involved in many third party funded projects. The acquired external funds supplement the budget of our institute to realize outstanding research.
Listed below are the current research projects that have been competitively acquired from external partners. Awards, fellowship, grants we hold at University Konstanz and all funding we receive competitively from Max-Planck-Society are not included.
Sociality:
Development of sociality and social relationships and maintenance of social structure over generations in the closest evolutionary relatives of humans, the great apes.
Duration: 09/2024 – 08/2026
Funding: HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01
Contact: Revathe Thillaikumar
Big Picture:
Developing data management and analytical tools to integrate and advance professional and citizen science camera-trapping initiatives across Europe.
Duration: 03/2024 – 02/2027
Funding: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Contact: Fabiola Iannarilli
HABITRACK:
Habitat tracking for the conservation of huntable bird species.
Duration: 01/2024 – 12/2027
Funding: HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01
Contact: Andrea Kölzsch
Landfill foraging in migratory birds: Gain or pain?
Duration: 11/2023 – 11/2026
Funding: DFG – German Research Foundation
Contact: Andrea Flack
BABOTS:
The design and control of small swarming biological animal robots.
Duration: 10/2023 – 09/2027
Funding: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01
Contact: Serena Ding, Iain Couzin
Project website: Babots
WildEuro:
Quantifying the landscape of fear - Collaborative camera trap networks to assess wildlife responses to
activities of humans and free-ranging domestic species across Europe.
Duration: 09/2023 – 09/2025
Funding: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
Contact: Fabiola Iannarilli
BioacAI:
Bioacoustic AI for wildlife protection.
Duration: 09/2023 – 08/2027
Funding: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01
Contact : Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin
Project website: BioacAI
The secret social lives of bats for overcoming uncertainty in their environment
Duration: 07/2023 – 07/2024
Funding: NGS - National Geographic Society
Contact: Jenna Kohles
AnimalsMove: Tierbewegung als Bioindikator für Umweltveränderungen
Duration: 05/2023 – 12/2025
Funding: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Contact: Kamran Safi
EU SNAPSHOT:
Coordinated and standardized camera trap effort to collect data on mammals across Europe.
Duration: 03/2023 - 02/2028
Funding: Academy for the Protection of Zoo Animals and Wildlife e.V.
Contact: Martin Wikelski
Project website: EU Snapshot
E4Warning:
Eco-epidemiological intelligence for early warning and response to mosquito-borne disease risk in endemic and emergence settings.
Duration: 01/2023 – 12/2026
Funding: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01
Contact: Kamran Safi
Project website: E4Warning
WildDrone:
Autonomous drones for nature conservation missions.
Duration: 01/2023 – 12/2026
Funding: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01
Contact: Blair Costelloe, Andrea Flack
Project website: WildDrone
The emergence of cooperation in schooling fish: an evolutionary game theory perspective
Duration: 11/2022 - 10/2025
Funding: DFG/ The Sino-German Center for Research Promotion
Contact: Liang Li
The Mandrillus Project
Duration: 04/2022 – 10/2024
Funding: The Leakey Foundation
Contact: Marie Charpentier
Understanding the elements that shape the ontogeny of migration in white storks
Duration: 01/2022 – 12/2028
Funding: DFG Emmy-Noether Independent Junior Research Groups Contact: Andrea Flack
The evolutionary roots of innovativeness: Tracing the phylogeny of human curiosity
Duration: 01/2022 – 12/2026
Funding: The Volkswagen Foundation, Freigeist Fellowship
Contact: Caroline Schuppli
Animal tracking tag capable of dual ground- and satellite-based communication to study movement ecology
Duration: 11/2021 – 05/2025
Funding: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Contact: Martin Wikelski
LuiKotale EKongo Bonobo Project
Duration: since 01/2021
Funding: Centre for Research and Conservation, Ouwehand Zoo Foundation, Leakey Foundation
Contact: Barbara Fruth
Project website: Bonobo Alive e.V.
SmartNets:
Advanced simulation, analysis and interpretation of network structures in biological data.
Duration: 09/2020 – 02/2025
Funding: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019
Contact: Iain Couzin
Project website: SmartNets
ECOLBEH:
The ecology of collective behavior.
Duration: 01/2020 – 06/2025
Funding: ERC-2019-STG
Contact: Damien Farine
iNavigate:
Brain-inspired technologies for intelligent navigation and mobility.
Duration: 12/2019 – 05/2025
Funding: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019
Contact: Iain Couzin
Project website: iNavigate
Individual Differences and Bio-Inspired Design of Vehicle Group Dynamics
Duration: 09/2019 – 08/2024
Funding: ONR - Office of Naval Research
Contact: Iain Couzin
VACDIVA:
A safe DIVA vaccine for African swine fever control and eradication.
Duration: 10/2019 – 12/2024
Funding: H2020-SFS-2019-1
Contact: Kevin Morelle
Project website: vacdiva