The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe, founded in 1825 as a pu…
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe, founded in 1825 as a public research university and also known as the "Fridericiana", merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center, which had originally been established in 1956 as a national nuclear research center. KIT is thus the first and only institution in Germany to overcome the division of the German scientific and research landscape into academic and non-academic institutions in the form of a merger of two different types of institutions.
Established: Fridericiana Polytechnic: 1825; 196 years ago · TU Karlsruhe: 1865 · KIT: 1 October 2009
President: Oliver Kraft
Motto: KIT – Die Forschungsuniversität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Motto in English: KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association
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