Following the decision of the grants committee of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) on 2nd of March 2011, the KIT has submitted three full applications. These are one application for a new Cluster of Excellence on “Reliable Software” and applications for two Graduate Schools in the field of “Informatics Engineering” and “Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics”.
In addition, KIT will submit three renewal proposals: one for the Graduate School – “Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics” (KSOP), one for the Cluster of Excellence –“ DFG Center for Functional Nanostructures” (CFN) and one for the Institutional Strategy "The Foundation of KIT". Those three applications had been successful in the first application round of the Excellence Initiative in 2006.
A special achievement in the first application round of the Excellence Initiative in 2006 was the success within the third funding line being the Institutional Strategy: the main issue of the Excellence Initiative I has been the Foundation of KIT. On 1st of October 2009, the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, a member of the Helmholtz Association, were united to one legal institution. This Institutional Strategy has been further developed in the follow-up application “Advancing KIT”.
Main points of the renewal proposal are the sharpening of the KIT profile as well as the focus on the support of junior scientific staff and gender equality.
Press release 037/2011 "Exzellenzinitiative II: KIT mit drei Neuanträgen in der Endrunde" (2nd March 2011).
Further information can be found on the websites of DFG and Wissenschaftsrat.
