With modern methods of long-term data collection and in close cooperation with other institutions pursuing comparable research in the North Sea area but also supra-regionally, research on Helgoland will continue to be able to make a significant contribution to analyzing ecological changes and thus provide decision-making aids for resource management and environmental policy as a whole.
We want to make our research accessible to the next generation and to the interested public. To this end, AWI has established a school laboratory where school classes can experiment on the topics of biodiversity and climate change.
With the Bluehouse, the future project of the AWI with the community of Helgoland, a new exhibition venue is being created in which the research of the Alfred Wegener Institute and coastal research in the North Sea will be presented in a vivid and exciting way.