Guest professorship at ZAK Vital impulses for research: in the winter term 2022/23 work sociologist Dr. Simon Schaupp resided at ZAK for the first guest professorship „research and society“. Further information |
The Critical Stage In the new article in ZAK’s ongoing online publication, the writer and scholar Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD, provides a brief overview of political life in the US in 2021, highlighting major tensions, paradoxes, and developments, and speculating on what might lie ahead, in the light of Trumpism and its ongoing aftershocks. Further Information |
Colloquium Fundamentale On April 28, 2022, Prof. Dr. Hagner opened the Colloquium Fundamentale with a lecture on the relationship between politics and science in times of crisis. Further Information |
KIT in the City Hall On 7 February 2022 the KIT Center MathSEE presented its research on the topic “With mathematics into the future”. Further Information |
KIT wins award! The KIT receives the "National Award - Education for Sustainable Development" in the category 'places of learning'. The prize money of 10,000 € is to be used for the expansion of the project week "Sustainability Spring Days at KIT". Further Information |
Swenja Zaremba selected as Thomas Mann Fellow 2022 We are proud to announce that ZAK’s research associate Swenja Zaremba has been selected as one out of five fellows of the Thomas Mann House 2022! |
Committed University For its support of volunteer work the 'Verband Deutscher Studierendeninitiativen e.V.' (VDSI) awards KIT the certificate "Engagierte Hochschule" (Committed University) for its support of volunteer work. The application was submitted by the ZAK for the 'Balu und Du' mentoring program. Further Information |
Child Friendliness Award 2022 The mentoring program "Balu und Du" receives the 1st prize of the Child-Friendliness Award 2022 of the City of Karlsruhe. The prize comes with 750€ and is awarded for special engagement towards the interests of children, teenagers and families in Karlsruhe. We are very happy! Further Information |
Colloquium Fundamentale On 21 July 2022, the KIT Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation (ARRTI) and Prof. Dr. Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer conducted a discussion on the topic of freedom in science at the Colloquium Fundamentale. Further Information |
KIT in the City Hall On 18 July 2022 the KIT Center Humans and Technology presented its research on the topic “Shaping Change” in a science slam. Further information |
Colloquium Fundamentale In the Colloquium Fundamentale on 28 June 2022 Prof. Dr. Jakob Edler, Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, talked about Innovation Policy. Further Information |
Energy transition for everyone On 28 March 2022 the opening of the Sustainability Spring Days took place. Due to illness, the keynote was not given by Prof. Dr. Tilman Santarius but by Prof. Dr. Paula Bögel who spoke about „Energy transition for everyone – premises from a psychological perspective“. Further information |
Anthology about future work In the publication "Future Work - The work of the day after tomorrow. 15 short stories from the future", which was produced as part of the BMBF research project FutureWork, science fiction authors write about the working environment at the beginning of the 22nd century. The anthology is available now. Further Information |
Sustainability Spring Days The Sustainability Spring Days at KIT took place from 28th to 31st March 2022. The Spring Days included workshops, excursions, fair of opportunities and keynote speech. Further information |
Colloquium Fundamentale On 12 May 2022 Dr. Alexandra Kaiser spoke in this summer semester’s Colloquium Fundamentale about societal benefit of research, political influence, and the freedom of science in China. Further information |