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KIT Focus Humans and Technology
Research Objectives and Tasks
A Presentation of the KIT Humans and Technology Focus on the Occasion of the “Climate and Environment Center“ Conference,
March 2011 – Dr. Oliver Parodi
KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and
National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association
www.kit.edu
FocusHumans and Technology
Our Aim:
Scientific-excellence approaches to the interactions between
scientific-technical progress and humans and society.
The KIT Humans and Technology Focus was established on July 15, 2009.
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Three Research Strategy Levels
 The KIT Humans and Technology Focus pools existing competences mainly
from the disciplines of social sciences, humanities, cultural studies, law, and
economics to find answers and solutions to technology-related issues.
 The KIT Humans and Technology Focus combines continuously developing
disciplinary competences into relevant interdisciplinary cooperations.
 The KIT Humans and Technology Focus cooperates with the scientifictechnical Focuses and Centers in solving relevant issues and responds to
suggestions made by them.
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Topics and Approach
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Examples of Focal Projects (Startup 2009-2010)
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Subject
Initiator
Topic
Changes in global value-added chains and their impact on
professional profiles
Prof. Martin
Fischer
T1: Work
Interaction between humans and sports equipment
Prof. Hermann
Schwameder
T2: Health
1. Techno-utopia
2. Techno-nostalgia
3. Multimediality for transdisciplinary technological
discourses
Prof. Andreas
Böhn
T3: Culture
Technological development and reception under conditions
of sociocultural diversity
Prof. Caroline
Robertson-von
Trotha
T3: Culture
Sustainable diffusion strategies for electrochemical energy
storage systems
Prof. Michael
Decker
Q1: Sustainable
development
Software as an institution
Dr. Carsten Orwat
Q2: Innovation
processes
CCS technology: Technology conflicts and acceptance issues
Prof. Armin
Grunwald
Q2: Innovation
processes
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Participants
 Competence Area “Technology, Culture, and Society“
 Department of Economics and Business Engineering
 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
 Department of Architecture
 Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis
(Campus North)
 Non-project participants from other fields of competence and
departments
General (non-project) participation:
 app. 35 institutes
 app. 480 scientists
(The number of project-related participants cannot be quantified.)
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Our Input and Contribution (Examples)
 Helmholtz Program “Technology, Innovation, and Society“
 Research Training Group „Information Management und Market
Engineering“
 BMBF-financed Ph.D. network „TRANSDISS“
 New field group „Autonomous Technical Systems – Challenges to Humans
and Society“
 Two shared research groups
 Political consulting to the German Bundestag and the European Parliament
 Large-scale BMBF und BMWi projects, EU projects
 DFG projects
 Office of the German Government‘s Commission of Experts for Research
and Innovation
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Organization
 Chief Focus Officer
Dr. Peter Fritz
 Scientific Spokesperson
Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald
 Steering Committee
Topic Spokesperson,
Deputy Topic Spokesperson, and others
 Focus Office
Dr. Oliver Parodi
Homepage
www.mensch-und-technik.kit.edu
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