Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
The agreement signed by the Federation and the State means more flexibility and agility for KIT, says the President of KIT, Professor Holger Hanselka. (Photo: Manuel Balzer, KIT)
Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek and Baden-Württemberg Minister for Science, Research, and the Arts Theresia Bauer have agreed on further steps to complete the merger of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that is unique in Germany. In this way, a renowned university and a large-scale research center will strengthen and deepen their merger that took place in 2009 already.
To use the full potential in research, teaching, and innovation, administrative obstacles will be reduced and flexibility in the use of funds will be enhanced. In the areas of human resources and budget in particular, entirely new legal schemes had to be developed to account for the requirements of both a university and a large-scale research institution. The legal and financial framework of the merger is outlined by an administrative agreement of the Federation and the State that has now been signed. The provisions are implemented by an amendment of the KIT Act and other legal regulations in the so-called “2nd KIT Further Development Act” that was adopted by the State government on Wednesday.