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The SWR visits the science camps at KIT.

The Science Camps@TRIAGEL Kids Lab at KIT offers schoolchildren in-depth insights into various STEM disciplines through experimenting, tinkering, and researching during the school holidays. In KIT's anniversary year, SWR reports on the “Climate and Environment” camp.

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 KIT/Anne Behrendt
Deutschlandstipendium 2025/26: Already 85% of the donation target achieved – final sprint until September 20, 2025!

We are pleased to announce that we have achieved 85% of our donation target. Thank you to all our supporters. Would you like to provide financial support to talented and dedicated students at KIT? Donate now — the state will double your donation! All donations received by the KIT Foundation by September 20 will go 100% toward scholarships starting in the winter semester of 2025/26.

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 KIT / Sandra Göttisheim
Save the date: Foundation Day 2025

On October 23, 2025, KIT will host Foundation Day once again—an inspiring platform for exchange, networking, and gaining deeper insights into the world of university funding. With lectures, excursions, and encounters with projects worthy of funding, this event is an annual highlight for science-promoting foundations. Be there when the future is shaped together!

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Dîner au KIT - An evening of appreciation and community

On July 4, KIT celebrated a special dinner with employees, students, alumni and long-standing supporters as part of its anniversary year. In summery weather and a festive atmosphere, the campus became a meeting place - crowned by a spectacular drone show over the Karlsruhe night sky.

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GIVING & KIT Foundation at the KIT Open Day

The GIVING and KIT Foundation team also had their own stand at the KIT Open Day on 17 May 2025. Many visitors seized the opportunity to learn about the wide range of funding opportunities at KIT and find out more about the work of the KIT Foundation.

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 KIT / Markus Breig
Celebrating 200 Years of KIT: “KIT. Place of the Future. Since 1825.”

In 2025, KIT celebrates its 200th anniversary under the motto “We shape the future. Research. Teaching. Transfer.” The anniversary year opened on Thursday, 20 February 2025 with a festive ceremony, welcoming more than 2,000 guests from the worlds of politics, business and science.

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Deutschlandstipendiumsfeier 2024KIT/Anne Behrendt
The 2024 Germany Scholarship award ceremony

This year's Germany Scholarship award ceremony took place at KIT on 5 December 2024. The scholarships were awarded to 345 outstanding students in a festive ceremony.

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 KIT / Sandra Göttisheim
Review of the 2nd KIT Foundation Day on October 24, 2024

On October 24, the second Foundation Day at KIT offered participating foundations the opportunity to learn about current KIT projects, to exchange ideas, and to network.

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The NXTGN Student VC Masterclasses project will begin in March 2025.

Our NXTGN Student VC Masterclasses project will begin in March 2025. Help the KIT Start-up Incubator train the next generation of investors and develop the start-up community at KIT and in Baden-Württemberg.

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