Since October 2015, the DFG International Research Training Group “Surface processes, Tectonics and Georesources in the Andean Foreland Basin of Argentina” (StRATEGy) is established at the University of Potsdam and runs in cooperation with the GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience and our Argentinian partner universities in Buenos Aires, Salta, Jujuy and Tucumán.