Since 04/2011	EU 7th FP ECO2 - Sub-seabed CO2 Storage: Impact on Marine Ecosystems
Since 2010	EU 7th FP EUROFLEETS - Towards an Alliance of European Research Fleets
Since 07/2009	HAUSGARTEN - Deep-sea long-term Observatory Biodiversity and functioning of polar deep-sea ecosystems
Since 2009	EU 7th FP ITN-SENSEnet- International Sensor Development Network
Since 04/2009	EU 7th FP HERMIONE - Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European
Since 04/2009	EU 7th FP HYPOX - In situ monitoring of oxygen depletion in hypoxic ecosystems of coastal and open-seas, and land-locked water bodies
Since 2009	EU 6th FP ESONET DM LOOME - Long-term Observations On Mud-volcano Eruptions
Since 2009	BMBF project BIOACID
Since /2008	EMSO - european multidisciplinary seafloor observatory
Since 03/2007	EU 6th FP ESONET NOE - European Seas Observatory Network
Since 2007	DFG-Cluster of Excellence (MARUM) Research Area F2 Geofuel inventory and utilization
Since 2007	GLOMAR - Bremen Graduate School for Marine Sciences "Global Change in the Marine Realm"
	CoML project ICoMM - International Census of Marine Microbes
	ESF EUROCORES EuroDEEP CHEMECO
	CNRS GDRE DIWOOD
	ESF EUROCORES EURODIVERSITY MiCROSYSTEMS
	BMBF project SUMSUN
	MARUM - Research area Geo-Biosphere Interactions Project GB5 Linking benthic fluxes and ecology of the ocean floor

Previous Projects

2002 - 2009	EU 6th FP HERMES - Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas
2005 - 2007	DFG-Priority Program SPP 1144: From Mantle to Ocean: Energy-, Material-, and Life-Cycles at Spreading Axes
2005 - 2008	Geotechnology project MUMM_2 - Methane in the GeoBio-system – turnover, metabolism and microorganisms
2005 - 2008	BMBF project MUMM - Microbial turnover of methane above marine gas hydrate
2003 - 2007	ESF project MEDIFLUX - An integrated study of fluid seepage through the seabed of the Nile deep-sea fan
2002 - 2005	EU 5th FP Project METROL – Methane fluxes in ocean margin sediments: microbiological and geochemical control
2003 -2004	EU 6th FP Project EXOCET/D - EXtreme ecosystem studies in the deep OCEan: Technological Developments