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Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

The KIT was highly successful in Baden-Württemberg’s current round of competition for funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). KIT obtained a total of EUR 5.855 million for three projects as an applicant and for another as a partner. The funds will be used for a targeted expansion of modern research infrastructure in strategic future fields: in Production Technology, Climate Research, Battery Recycling, and Quantum Communication.

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

Since 2023, researchers have been working in the ETOS future cluster, co-led by KIT, to replace the traditional production of fine chemicals with electrochemical processes using renewable electricity. The aim of the second funding phase is to make production processes more sustainable. The cluster is receiving €12 million from the BMFTR for another three years to put the newly developed methods into practical use in industry and synthesize significantly more chemicals. / 02.2026

P. Langer / M. Breig, KIT

Thanks to the funding of 150,000 euros each, both projects will be able to translate their basic research into concrete practical applications over the next 18 months. In his SOAR project, Christian Greiner is developing a new class of copper-based alloys whose microstructures are inherently resistant to friction and wear. Frank Biedermann is researching small sensor plates for medical diagnostics with the aim of detecting several bioactive molecules at once in the future. / 02.2026

Magali Hauser, KIT

At KIT's new location in Heilbronn, young research talents in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) will be trained and research results will be transferred to industry more quickly. With the joint graduate center “connAIx Research School for Applied AI” run by KIT, the University of Stuttgart, and the University of Tübingen, the state will provide around 30 million euros annually from 2029 to promote the practical application of AI in areas such as robotics, chip design, and cybersecurity. / 02.2026

A. Bramsiepe / M. Breig, KIT

The newly DFG-funded international research training group C4LaNd, (spokesperson Almut Arneth), is investigating how the growing demand for food, renewable energy and materials can be reconciled with the protection of biodiversity and the climate.

In addition, the research training group KD²School (spokesperson Alexander Mädche) will receive DFG funding for another five years. Here, KIT is researching the design of biosignal-adaptive systems for decision-making processes in collaboration with the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg. / 12.2025

Markus Breig

The European Innovation Council (EIC) is funding the research project Superspin within the Pathfinder program. It was selected as one of only 44 projects from over 2,000 applications. Researchers at KIT, led by Professor David Hunger are developing technologies for coupling a quantum computer with a quantum memory in collaboration with European partner institutions. This will be a major step towards powerful quantum technologies. Superspin will start in April 2026 and FORscience will take over the administrative project management. / 12.2025