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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.
Please note that the dates in this calendar are not updated daily and all information is without guarantee. It is possible that dates are changed at short notice without us becoming aware of this. We therefore recommend that you check the information on the websites of the facilities concerned.
On June 6, 2025, Dipl.-Ing. Knut Göppert was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. e.h.) for his outstanding achievements in the field of structural engineering, in particular the planning of roof structures according to the spoke wheel principle, which he co-developed. Knut Göppert studied civil engineering at the Universities of Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Calgary. He joined the Stuttgart office of schlaich bergermann partner in 1989 and has been a partner since 1998. He is a world-renowned structural engineer who has been responsible for and implemented many outstanding civil engineering structures. He has received many international awards for his work on stadium projects in particular, such as the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. Mr. Göppert regularly gives lectures at the KIT-Department for interested professionals and students.
On July 11, 2025 our graduation ceremony will take place, during which the Master's graduates and doctoral students of our KIT-Department BGU will be honored. In addition, the presentation of the certificates for the 50th anniversary of the doctorate and the awarding of the Department Prizes will take place.
Registration is required for this event.
With the beginning of the winter semester 2025/26, the KIT-Department BGU will offer the Bachelor's study program "Applied Environmental Informatics and Earth Observation". The strongly inter- and transdisciplinary course of study describes and analyzes the complex interactions between humans, nature and technology and provides a solid, broad-based, subject-related basic education in natural and engineering sciences in the field of environmental sciences and methods of earth observation.
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Freitag, KIT-Department BGU, was awarded the Faculty Teaching Award 2025.
With the Faculty Teaching Awards, the KIT Executive Board honors individuals, working groups and organizational units from the eleven KIT-Departments whose courses have distinguished themselves through research- and application-oriented teaching modules, new forms of teaching and learning, a special degree of interdisciplinarity or the particular topicality of the specialist knowledge imparted.
read more (in German)The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts welcomes twelve top-class scientists and artists to its ranks in 2025. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Freitag, Director of the Institute of Structural Analysis, has been accepted as a corresponding member of the Class for Engineering and Economic Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Frank Schilling from the Institute of Applied Geosciences was elected as the new President of the German Geosciences Association (DVGeo) by the General Assembly. He takes over this office from Prof. Dr. Alexander Nützel (paleontologist), who has headed the association since 2023.
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