A delegation from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) visits UGA

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On  December 18, 2023
On December 19th, 2023, the first strategic committee meeting of the partnership between Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) took place. On this occasion, seven representatives from KIT* were welcomed in Grenoble for two days.
This visit was organized in two parts:

1. On Monday December 18th, around thirty researchers from UGA, KIT and the Centre d’Energie Atomique (CEA) joined working groups on the following topics:
- Batteries
- Energy system design
- Hydrogen/electrochemical technologies
- Artificial intelligence
For each theme, they shared and discussed of current cooperation and next steps.

2. On Tuesday December 19th, the first KIT-UGA strategic meeting was held in presence of the working groups coordinators. They presented and discussed the conclusions of the meetings organized the day before. For each theme, the next steps of the collaboration have been defined.

At the end of the meeting, Karine Samuel, Vice-President for International Affairs at UGA, Thomas Hirth, Vice-President for International Affairs at KIT, and Eirini Sarigiannidou, Vice-President for International Affairs at Grenoble INP – UGA, Phelma and Klaus Rümmele, Head of International Affairs Business Unit at KIT, reaffirmed their full support for this strategic partnership. They also expressed their desire to see numerous collaborations strengthened in 2024.
 
* The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology delegation included:
Prof. Thomas Hirth
Vice President Transfer and International Affairs
Prof. Veit Hagenmeyer
Head Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI)
Head of Research Area Energy System Integration (ESI)
Dr. Dominic Bresser
Research Group Leader Helmholtz-Institut Ulm (HIU)
Prof. Martin Doppelbauer
Professorship Hybrid and Electric Vehicle (HEV)
Tenure-Track Prof. Rudolf Lioutikov
Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR)
Research Group Leader Intuitive Robots Lab
Apl. Prof. Alexander Nesterov-Mueller
Group leader Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT)
Dr. Manuella Werp
International Affairs (INTL)
Research Partnership Officer with France

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is a strategic partner of UGA. This visit served to strengthen the ties between the two institutions.
Published on  January 9, 2024
Updated on  January 11, 2024