The MOSAiC Example: How to develop and fund a large-scale international initiative from a national bottom-up idea

The EU-PolarNet Task 1.3. Strengthen international cooperation and implement the Transatlantic Research Alliance has the objective to strengthen international cooperation in Polar Research. This new deliverable will contribute to this objective in showing how a large-scale and expensive international initiative, like the MOSAiC expedition, can be implemented and funded by an international consortium. The MOSAiC expedition serves as a best-practise example for other projects on how such international projects have to be set up and which support is needed to convert a national, bottom-up idea to an international large-scale project. In addition, this deliverable will also contribute to EU-PolarNet WP3 objectives by giving a best practise example on how an infrastructure, like PRV Polarstern, can be shared and jointly operated by an international consortium.