University of Excellence Status of Innovation Partner KIT Renewed
Strong Partnership for “Science for Impact”
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has successfully defended its status as a University of Excellence under the federal and state governments’ Excellence Strategy. As a result, KIT remains one of Germany’s leading universities with an international visibility.
The FZI Research Center for Information Technology warmly congratulates its long-standing innovation partner on this success. Both institutions are united by their commitment to combining scientific excellence with social and economic impact. This commitment is anchored in the FZI’s statutory mission: Research results are to be specifically translated into applications, innovations, and new business models.
This shared perspective also shapes numerous research and transfer activities between KIT and the FZI. Scientists from both institutions are working on key future topics of the German government’s high-tech agenda, including cybersecurity, microelectronics, Artificial Intelligence, and technologies for climate-neutral mobility. The goal is to translate new research approaches into economic and societal applications more quickly.
At the same time, KIT and the FZI share strong regional roots. Together, they contribute to further developing Karlsruhe as a science and innovation hub with international visibility—through excellent research, successful spin-offs, and close cooperation with industry and the public sector.
KIT’s renewed designation as a University of Excellence thus underscores not only the scientific strength of the location but also the importance of a high-performing innovation ecosystem in which research, transfer, and application work closely together.
About the FZI
The FZI Research Center for Information Technology, with headquarters in Karlsruhe and a branch office in Berlin, is a non-profit institution for information technology application research and technology transfer. It delivers the latest scientific findings in information technology to companies and public institutions and qualifies individuals for academic and business careers or the leap into self-employment. Supervised by professors from various faculties, the research groups at the FZI develop interdisciplinary concepts, software, hardware and system solutions for their clients and implement the solutions found as prototypes. The FZI House of Living Labs provides a unique research environment for application research. The FZI is an innovation partner of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and strategic partner of the German Informatics Society (GI).