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The KIT-Department BGU takes a holistic approach to understanding, protecting, using, and sustainably shaping the environment as the basis of our lives in teaching, research, and innovations.
In this context, the geosciences and environmental sciences work closely together with the civil engineering sciences. Thus, the department makes an essential contribution to living in an attractive environment also in the future.
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Monitoring biodiversity has so far been complex, cost-intensive and requires specialized expertise. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), however, changes in biodiversity can also be detected easily and at an early stage using sound recordings. In the Bio-O-Ton-2 project led by Dr. Susanne Benz from the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (IPF) at KIT, KIT researchers are developing a method that can be used to record the condition of habitats on a large scale with the support of citizens as citizen scientists. This will be used as an early warning system by public authorities in the future.
The Seed Money scheme aims to provide initial financial support for innovative cross-border projects within Eucor – The European Campus. Created by the universities to promote the exchange and networking of teachers and researchers from member institutions, it consists of an annual call for projects divided into two funding streams, namely the “Teaching” stream on the one hand, and the “Research, Innovation and Transfer” stream (which covers doctoral training programmes) on the other.
Currently, Seed Money is endowed with 300,000 euros per year, the maximum funding for any project being 60,000 euros. Only project consortia that actively involve at least two member universities of Eucor from at least two countries in the project are eligible to apply. It is also essential that no grant – national or international – has already been granted to the project.
The 2026 Seed Money call is open until September 24!
more information and call for projects (in German)
The Tromm region in the Odenwald fulfills the geological requirements for an underground research laboratory for geothermal energy. This is shown by the results of an intensive exploration of the subsurface by researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geo Research and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in the GeoLaB project. On this basis, the concrete planning and approval phase of the rock laboratory, which is intended to promote the use of deep geothermal energy as a reliable source of energy, is now beginning.
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