With the field of action “Sustainability” of the umbrella strategy KIT 2025, KIT has set itself the goal of substantially advancing sustainability as a cross-cutting issue for the entire organization. Together, we want to promote sustainable development in research, higher education, innovation, and transfer as well as in our own organization and thus meet the social responsibility of KIT. But this can only be done together and by drawing from the rich experience and the spectrum of knowledge of KIT. According to the motto:

Together.Sustainable.KIT

This is why the “Basis Project Sustainability” was launched, which is divided into six work packages (WP). Together, through a strongly participatory process, we will further develop and strengthen the topic of sustainability at KIT, in research (WP 3), higher education (WP 4), transfer & innovation (WP 5) as well as in KIT as an organization (WP 6). Over the next two years, the employees and students of KIT are invited to actively participate in shaping sustainability at KIT through the “Basis Project Sustainability.” With workshops, interviews, online surveys, etc., ideas and measures will be collected, developed, prioritized based on criteria, fed into KIT’s decision-making processes, and implemented.

In addition to project management, ITAS is primarily responsible for work packages 3 (Research), 4 (Teaching), and 5 (Transfer & Innovation).

In WP 3, for example, 19 topic clusters were developed in a broad participation process involving group interviews, surveys, and three workshops. They focus on topics that could be taken up or strengthened at KIT in order to substantially advance research on sustainability and its implementation. In order to prioritize these topic clusters, criteria were developed together with the stakeholders that describe the relevance to sustainability, the potential impact, the feasibility, the overall assessment of the potential of the research cluster and the degree of maturity. All participants in the process were then asked to assess and prioritize the collection of topic clusters in a Delphi process. The assessment of these topic clusters was NOT a review and NOT an evaluation process. It was intended to capture the mood on the collected topic clusters and to query the willingness to participate in the further development of individual topic clusters (e.g., within the framework of PoF, ExU, and SEP, etc.).

After analyzing the Delphi, we created a short profile for the 11 prioritized topic clusters. These profiles will be presented to the Executive Board and form the basis for the discussion between the Executive Board and the Heads of Division in order to integrate and implement the prioritized research agendas into KIT’s research strategy.

A similar procedure will be followed in all other work packages.

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