Research

BMBF project on the scenario development of our world of work in the distant future with Human Factors and Ergonomics Scientists, Futurologists and Science Fiction experts.

This project wants to systematically concentrate all KIT competences able to contribute to the preservation of cultural assets.

This media project of the five Karlsruhe state universities offers students a learning platform for cross-media and journalistic work.

The collaborative research and service institution CODIGT is dedicated to the task of contributing to the preservation of digital cultural heritage and various types of science and research data.

The Academic Council on Culture and Foreign Policy (WIKA) is a platform for scientists and political, cultural, and medial personalities concerning questions of foreign cultural and educational policy.

Within the framework of the EU project MIGRASCOPE, ZAK has been developing concepts with project partners from different countries in order to support migrants as well as employers in the process of labour market integration.

EURIIS supports the European competence of German and foreign students at KIT.

This project concentrates intercultural and mediative competences in the cross-sectional area “Interculturality and Globalisation” at ZAK.

This accompanying trainee programme supports active KIT students in acquiring supplementary key skills and thus contributes to their future career path.

Since 2006, ZAK has been member of the German Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation. In March 2012, ZAK was elected as the new coordinator of the Network for the Dialogue between Cultures.

This field includes studies of the typology of scientific videos on the internet, research on the social influence of the portrayal of science in science fiction films, participatory culture in science museums, the documentation and dissemination of new cultural heritage, and the further development of Public Science in the era of Web 2.0.