KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association 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 Focus Humans and Technology Research Objectives and Tasks

2February 2011 Focus Humans and Technology Dr. Oliver Parodi The KIT Humans and Technology Focus was established on July 15, Our Aim: Scientific-excellence approaches to the interactions between scientific-technical progress and humans and society.

3February 2011 Focus Humans and Technology Dr. Oliver Parodi 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 scientific- technical Focuses and Centers in solving relevant issues and responds to suggestions made by them.

4February 2011 Focus Humans and Technology Dr. Oliver Parodi Topics and Approach

5February 2011 Focus Humans and Technology Dr. Oliver Parodi SubjectInitiatorTopic 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 institutionDr. Carsten Orwat Q2: Innovation processes CCS technology: Technology conflicts and acceptance issues Prof. Armin Grunwald Q2: Innovation processes Examples of Focal Projects (Startup )

6February 2011 Focus Humans and Technology Dr. Oliver Parodi  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.) Participants

7February 2011 Focus Humans and Technology Dr. Oliver Parodi  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 Our Input and Contribution (Examples)

8February 2011 Focus Humans and Technology Dr. Oliver Parodi  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 Organization Homepage