The Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH have founded in 2008 the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Both partners signed a memorandum of understanding on close cooperation under the roof of KIT. KIT turned out to be the decisive ace of the Universität Karlsruhe in the excellence initiative, in the course of which it was elected one of three elite universities in Germany.

Both partners are joining their forces in KIT in order to achieve an unprecedented quality of cooperation. With roundabout 8000 employees and an annual budget of more than half a billion Euros, KIT has the potential of becoming a leading institution in selected science disciplines in the world.

Read more here: www.kit.edu

As the oldest technical university in Germany, founded in 1825, the profile of Universität Karlsruhe is determined primarily by the technical and natural sciences as well by engineering. These academic disciplines are also closely interlinked with the programs for humanities, cultural sciences, and economics at the university, all of which combine to lend this rather "technical" institution a truly universal character. The university’s spectrum of scientific excellence on which it has founded and consolidated its worldwide success is further complemented by the architecture program, which is closely interwoven with engineering and the technological sciences and which is represented in research and teaching.