ICLEA - Virtual Institute of
Integrated Climate and Landscape Evolution Analyses

Theme of the Virtual Institute for Integrated Climate and Landscape Evolution Analyses ICLEA is the better understanding of the dynamics of Climate and Landscape Evolution of Cultural Landscapes in the Northern Central European Lowlands since the Last Ice Age.

The long-term mission of our Virtual Institute ICLEA is to provide a substantiated data basis for sustained environmental maintenance based on a profound process understanding at all relevant time scales.

Partner Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald (Uni Greifswald) and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (BTU) together with the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) strive for focusing their research capacities and expertise to explore processes of climate and landscape evolution in an historical cultural landscape extending from northeastern Germany into northwestern Poland.