Deepening cooperation – gaining impact: 1st KIT Partner Week

This week gives us the opportunity and the time to further develop the ideas we already discussed in Karlsruhe and Lisbon (and before) and to share experiences and best practice in international cooperation and student and staff mobility. We will use the time to get to know each other better, select the most forward-looking ideas and projects and to define the milestones for our projects in order to get things running. To sum up: Deepening cooperation- gaining impact!

On Saturday, 29 June, KIT will open its doors for around 25.000 people. We can together use this event to present the CLUSTER Network as an inspiring and forward oriented group of universities and to enjoy a wonderful day full of ideas, impressions, and personal contacts and fun.

Time	Tuesday, 25 June	Wednesday, 26 June	Thursday, 27 June	Friday, 28 June	Saturday, 29 June
Morning Session		9.00-12.00 Focus 1: Enhancing Staff Mobility	9.00-18.00 Excursion to TU Darmstadt	9.00-12.00 Focus 2: Student Mobility and Short Courses	Full day KIT Open Day
12.00- 13.00		Lunch break (at own expense)	Lunch break (at own expense)	Lunch break (at own expense)
Afternoon session	13.00-13.30 Welcome@KIT: Registration and Coffee 13.30-14.00 Introduction to Partner Week: Program and Locations 14.00-15.30 Who is who: A poster session of participants’ home institutions 15.30-17.00 Walk and Talk: Getting to know KIT (university campus)	13.00-14.30 Individual Meetings with the KIT Departments 14.30 Bus Shuttle to Research Campus   15.00-16.00 Getting to know KIT: Internship opportunities at the research campus (CN)		13.00-16.00 Focus 3: Next Steps New developments in student mobility – ERASMUS+ and digitalization
Evening	Social evening	Social evening		Social evening

 

Please fill in the online form in order to take part in the KIT Partner Week. Participation fee is 150 € for full program from noon, Tuesday to Saturday including coffee breaks, social events and excursion to Darmstadt and back. We will confirm your registration by April 30. A minimum of 8 participants is required for the event to take place. KIT shall be free to cancel the event if less than 8 participants have registered until the registration deadline (April 30).

​Public Transport

Campus South of KIT is located in the city center of Karlsruhe and can easily be reached by public transport, for example when arriving by train at the Central Station. The exact times of departure are available on the website of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (stop "Durlacher Tor / KIT-Campus Süd"). Information about travel data of the railway are provided by the German Rail.

​Plane

The nearest airports for long-distance visitors are:

• Airport Stuttgart
  Take tramlines S2 or S3 to Hauptbahnhof Stuttgart, then change to a train to Karlsruhe (for exact times of departure, please refer to the train schedule of German Rail).
• Airport Frankfurt
  The long-distance train station is close to the airport. Once you get there, take a train to Karlsruhe.
• Airport Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (Baden-Airpark)
  The buses available at the Airport will take you to the train stations of Rastatt or Baden-Baden where you will find trains leaving to Karlsruhe.

​How to get to KIT / Partner week venue

The partner week will take place at KIT campus south Tuesday June 25 until Saturday June 29 included. To orient yourself on the Campus you can use our Interactive Map and/or App KIT Navigator (for iOS and Android).

KIT Campus South is centrally located in Karlsruhe city. Unfortunately, we cannot offer you a room in our international guesthouse. Therefore, we suggest booking an accommodation in the city center. A list of hotels is available on the official city webpage.

Should you have any further question do not hesitate to contact Julia, Marco, Mia or Verena at partnerweek∂intl.kit.edu. One of us will reply you as soon as possible.

Karlsruhe is located in Southwestern Germany on the western edge of Baden-Württemberg and has about 300,000 residents. Close to the river Rhine, the city area boarders Rhineland-Palatinate in the northwest and France in the west. Would you like to know more about the so called “fan city”? We suggest you to visit Karlsruhe tourism.