French Polar Institute Paul-Émile-Victor
The French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor (French Institut polaire français Paul Emile Victor , IPEV ), successor to the Institut Français pour la Recherche et la Technologie Polaires ( IFTRP ), is an amalgamation of nine public and semi-public French organizations for the purpose of polar research . The main donor is the French Ministry of Research.
It was founded in January 1992. In 2018, the budget was € 28 million. The Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) provides two thirds of the approximately 50 permanent employees in Brest at the headquarters of the IPEV in Brittany .
The namesake, Paul-Émile Victor , who died in 1995 , was a leading French polar explorer and ethnologist.
The IPEV has three research vessels, Marion Dufresne , La curieuse and L'Astrolabe, and stations in the Arctic , Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic .
The most important Antarctic research station of the IPEV is the Dome Concordia station operated jointly with Italy , the most isolated Antarctic research station on the East Antarctic plateau, with a summer occupation of 55 and a winter occupation of 15 people. It is supplied by land via the French year-round coastal station Dumont-d'Urville , and by air via the Italian coastal station Mario Zucchelli .
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- Ministère Délégué à la Recherche et aux Nouvelles Technologies
- Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
- Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer ( Ifremer )
- Météo-France
- Center national d'études spatiales (CNES)
- Expéditions polaires françaises