| AAA | Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| ACD | Arctic Coastal Dynamic |
| ACE | Antarctic Climate Evolution |
| ACIA | Arctic Climate Impact Assessment |
| ADD | Antarctic Digital Database |
| AGEANT | Age, Growth and Evolution of Antarctica |
| AGONET | Antarctic Geospace Observatory Network |
| AMANDA | Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detection Array |
| ANDRILL | Antarctic Nearshore DRILLing |
| ANDEEP | Antarctic benthic DEEP-sea biodiversity |
| ANTEC | Antarctic Neotectonics |
| ANTIME | Late Quaternary Antarctic Sedimentary Record of Ice Margin Evolution |
| ANTOSTRAT | Antarctic Off-shore Stratigraphy Programme |
| APECS | Association of Polar Early Career Scientists |
| APIS | Antarctic Pack Ice Seals |
| APG | Antarctic Permafrost Group |
| APTIC | Antarctic Peninsula Thermosphere-Ionosphere Coupling |
| ASPeCt | Antarctic Sea-Ice Processes and Climate |
| ASPA | Antarctic Specially Protected Area |
| ASPeCT | Antarctic Sea Ice and Climate |
| ASSW | Arctic Science Summit Week |
| AT | Antarctic Treaty |
| ATAC | Antarctic Tropospheric Aerosols and their role in climate |
| ATCM | Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting |
| ATS | Antarctic Treaty System |
| BEDMAP | Antarctic Bedrock Mapping Project |
| BFAFI | Bundesforschungsanstalt für Fischerei (Federal Research Center for Fisheries) |
| CASE | Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering |
| CASE 1 | Correlation of Alpine Structural Events (Spitzbergen 1993) |
| CASE 2 | Correlation of Alpine Structural Events (NE Greenland 1994) |
| CASE 3 | Circum Artic Structural Events (New Siberian Islands 1996) |
| CCAMLR | Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
| CEP | Committee for Environmental Protection |
| COMNAP | Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes |
| DWD | Deutscher Wetterdienst |
| DROMLAN | Dronning Maud Land Air Network |
| EASIZ | Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone |
| ENVINET | European Network for Arctic-Alpine Multidisciplinary Environment Research |
| EPB | European Polar Board |
| EPICA | European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica |
| ESF | European Science Foundation |
| EUPLEX | European Polar Stratospheric Cloud and Lee Wave Experiment |
| EVOLANTA | Evolution in Antarctica |
| FARO | Forum on Arctic Research Operations |
| FATE | 1. Functional Attributes in Terrestrial Ecosytems 2. Feedbacks and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| GANOVEX | German Antarctic North Victoria Land Expedition (GANOVEX I – VII, since 1979/80) |
| GIANT | Geodetic Infrastructure for Antarctica |
| GOSEAC | Group of Specialists on Environmental Affairs and Conservation |
| IASC | International Arctic Science Committee |
| IBMANT | Interactions between the Magellan Region and the Antarctic |
| ICARP | International Conference of Arctic Research Planning |
| ICESTAR | Interhemispheric Conjugacy in Environmental, Solar-Terrestrial and Atmospheric Research |
| IPY | International Polar Year |
| ISAES | International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science |
| ISIRA | International Scientific Investigations in the Russian Arctic |
| ISMASS | Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level |
| ITASE | International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition |
| JCADM | Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management |
| MADREP | Middle Atmosphere Dynamics and Relativistic Electron Precipitation |
| MAGICS | Mass Balance of Arctic Glaciers and Ice Sheets in relation to Climate and Sea Level Changes |
| MAGMAP | Magnetic Anomaly Map |
| NySMAC | Ny Ålesund Scientific Managers Committee |
| OSL | Otto-Schmidt Laboratory for polar and marine research |
| PICE | Palaeoenvironments from Ice Cores |
| PASTA | Plateau Astronomy Site Testing in Antarctica |
| PACA | Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere |
| PICE | Paleoenvironment from Ice Cores |
| POMOR | Cooperative Master degree for applied polar and marine sciences at Saint Petersburg State University |
| PCMEGA | The Prince Charles Mountains Expedition of Germany – Australia 2002 – 2003 |
| PURE | Polar Ural Expedition |
| QUOBI | Quantitative Understanding of Ozone losses by Bipolar Investigations |
| READER | Reference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research |
| RiSCC | Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Ecosystems |
| SALE | Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration |
| SCALOP | Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations |
| SCAR | Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |
| SPADA | Development of the SCAR Spatial Data Model for Exchange and Distributed Processing of *Spa*tial *D*ata of *A*ntarctica |
| SPG | Scientific Programme Group |
| SPPG | Scientific Programme Planning Groups |
| SRP | Scientific Research Programmes |
| SSG | Standing Scientific Group |
| STEPS | Solar Terrestrial Processes and Space Weather |
| TEA | Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic |
| VALHALA | Vertical distribution of Aerosols at high Latitudes in both Hemispheres using Airborne Laboratories |
| VISA | Validation, collection and interpretation of satellite data for the determination of magnetic field, gravity field, ice mass balance and crustal structure in Antarctica using airborne and ground-based measurements. |