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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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