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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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State Secretary Dr. Andre Baumann from the Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector Baden-Württemberg visited the Institute of Concrete Structures and Building Materials (IMB) and the Materials Testing and Research Institute (MPA Karlsruhe) in August to find out more about building materials research at KIT.
On 29 July 2024, Andrea Lindlohr (MdL), State Secretary in the Ministry for Regional Development and Housing, visited the Research Institute for Steel, Timber and Masonry. She was accompanied by the Mayor of Karlsruhe, Dr. Frank Mentrup and Karlsruhe's Member of Parliament, Alexander Salomon.
The International Science Council has appointed Dr. Alik Ismail-Zadeh from the Institute of Applied Geosciences to the Scientific Committee of the Program for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. The Committee supports the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The new committee consists of 15 members from different regions and scientific fields who bring a wide range of expertise to support the IRDR objectives.
read moreProf. Goldscheider was made an honorary member of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in 2024. This program was established by the GSA Board of Directors in 1909. Honorary members are international geoscientists who have made outstanding contributions to science.
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The project "HoStaBau - Wood-steel hybrid construction methods for the sustainable conversion of the construction industry" (VAKA) took part in the KIT's NEULAND Innovation contest 2024 and came 3rd in the category "Idea Award".
Together with Messe München, the BAKA Bundesverband Altbauerneuerung is organizing the competition 'Students | Design | Future'.
Colleges and universities from Germany and other European countries are invited to take part. Project works from the fields of space, buildings and districts that are oriented towards sustainability aspects and deal with the topics of sufficiency, efficiency, consistency and resilience must be submitted.
Four cash prizes (1st prize: €1,000, 2nd prize €500; 3rd prize €300 and a special prize of €300) and non-cash prizes will be awarded.
Students from all relevant disciplines can apply in interdisciplinary teams of two or more people until October 4, 2024.
call for tender (in German)This funding initiative aims to provide initial financial support for innovative cross-border projects between the member universities in the areas of teaching, research, innovation and transfer.
The initiative is endowed with 300,000 euros per year, the maximum funding for any project being 60,000 euros. The projects, which will be selected by the EGTC Assembly in December 2024, can start from February 1, 2025, with a maximum duration of 24 months. Applications for this call for projects must be submitted by September 16, 2024, 17:00 CET (Brussels time).