The SPI Flagship Programme PAMIR had its official Kick-Off in Dushanbe on 1 June 2023 and the event turned to a great success. Thanks go to all the numerous participants for…
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Following the acknowledgement the Tajikistan-led UN initiative declaring 2025 as the International year of glacier preservation, the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan (NAST) and the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) signed…
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Christine Bichsel, principal investigator of research cluster 6 ‘History of Glacier Science’, and her team are currently conducting archival research in the National Archive of Uzbekistan. During her visit, Christine gave…
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Follow in the footsteps of the team from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Fribourg, who were on a scientific expedition to the Pamirs in the summer of 2022.…
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In 2022, Switzerland and Tajikistan mark the 30th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the two countries. The final celebration event was the ‘Swiss Culture Day’ in Dushanbe, on 9 December…
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