Karlsruhe's proximity to France has always played a major role in the development of the city and its culture. And this proximity can also be clearly felt in the field of science and research.
The Fridericana was founded in 1825 as a technical university in the tradition of Napoleon's polytechnic engineering school. The Karlsruhe Research Center, founded in 1956, is similar to the facilities of the French CEA with its multidisciplinary range of tasks.
Against this background, the students, researchers and professors from Karlsruhe are virtually predestined to fill Franco-German relations with life and develop them further.
With the merger of the university and research center to form the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Franco-German activities at KIT will also be bundled in order to work even more closely with the best universities in France and the most successful research laboratories in our neighboring country in the future.
Tasks at KIT
Further tasks are
- Supporting all departments in the field of research
- Initiating and maintaining contacts Franco-German cooperation programs
- Introductory courses, language courses, advanced training courses
- Organization of block courses
- Organization of conferences and summer schools
- Organization of block courses for graduates
- Arrangement of internships, student research projects, diploma and doctoral theses
- German-French graduate schools
Activities at KIT
- Placement of student research projects, diploma and doctoral theses
- Arrangement of internships
- Establishment of institutional partnerships with French institutions
- Establishment of a scholarship program (external sponsors)
- Annual prize (best diploma thesis, doctoral thesis, etc., mixed D-F research project)
- Promotion of joint D-F research projects
- Support for EU funding (Marie Curie etc.)
- Thematic summer school
- Thèses en Cotutelle
- Franco-German graduate schools
- Partnerships between Franco-German research groups
- Franco-German colloquium
- Block lectures for students of the University of Karlsruhe
- Lectures by Karlsruhe scientists at French partner institutions