List of currently active projects (ongoing, restructured and new) [2005 - 2009]
Theme I: The Geoscience of Global Change- I-3: Methane Hydrate: Global Distribution and Geological Processes (missing report 2004) Chairperson: M. Tanahashi (Japan)
- I-4: New tectonic causes of volcano failure and possible premonitory signals (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: A. Tibaldi (Italy), (Task Force II)

Theme II: Contemporary Dynamics and Deep Processes- II-1: Temporal and Spatial Change of Stress and Strain, (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: O. Heidbach (Germany), (Task Force VII)
- II-5: Global and regional parameters of paleoseismology; implications for fault scaling and future earthquake hazard, (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: P. M. De Martini (Italy), (Task Force V)
- II-6: Baby plumes in Central Europe, (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: U. Achauer (France), (Task Force VIII)
- II-7: Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI), ongoing, Chairperson: F. Bendimerad (USA)
- II-9: Global Earthquake Potential, (missing report 2004), Chairperson: D. Jackson (USA)
- II-10: Ultra-Deep Continental Crust Subduction (UDCCS), (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya (Russia), (Task Force IV)

Theme III: Continental Lithosphere- III-2: Sedimentary Basins, (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: F. Roure (France), (Task Force VI)
- III-7: Global Impact Studies Project, Chairperson: V. L. Sharpton (USA)
- III-8: Processes and Geodynamics in the Formation and Exhumation of Ultra-high-Pressure Metamorphic Terrain, (ongoing), Chairperson: J. Liou (China)
- III-9: Earth Accretionary Systems (in space and time) (ERAS), (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: P. Cawood (Australia), (Task Force I)
- III-10: Lithosphere-Astenosphere Interactions, (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: A. Tommasi (Italy), (Task Force III)

Theme IV: Oceanic Lithosphere
Coordinating Committees (CC)- CC-1: Regional Committees
- CC-1/1: Himalayas, Chairperson: Qasim Jan (Pakistan), 20th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop 2005
- CC-1/2: Andean, (2005 - 2007), Chairperson: V. A. Ramos (Argentina)
- CC-1/3: TOPO-EUROPE, (2005 - 2009), Chairperson: S. Cloetingh (The Netherlands)
- CC-1/4: TOPO-CENTRAL-ASIA, Chairperson: Qingchen Wang (China)
- CC-1/5: DynaQlim, Chairperson: Markku Poutanen (Finland)
- CC-4: Continental Drilling, Chairperson: M. Zoback (USA)
- CC-7: International Commission for the Earth Sciences in Africa (ICESA), (2005 - 2007), Chairperson: E. I. Mbede (Tanzania)
- CC-8: Committee on Interdisciplinary Lithospheric Surveys (COILS), Chairperson: L. D. Brown (USA)
- CC-8A: Lithospheric Evolution of Gondwana East from iNterdisciplinary Deep Surveys (LEGENDS), Chairperson: A. Kröner (Germany)

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