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KIT Focus Humans and Technology

The KIT Humans and Technology Focus, established on July 15, 2009, under Dr. Oliver Parodi, aims to enhance scientific excellence by exploring the interactions between technological progress and society. By integrating expertise from social sciences, humanities, and economics, this interdisciplinary initiative seeks solutions to technology-related challenges. Collaborating with various scientific-technical focuses, the program involves approximately 480 scientists and addresses critical issues impacting both humans and technology through ongoing research and innovative projects.

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KIT Focus Humans and Technology

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  1. KIT Focus Humans and Technology Research Objectives and Tasks

  2. 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. Dr. Oliver Parodi

  3. 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. Three Research Strategy Levels Dr. Oliver Parodi

  4. Topics and Approach Dr. Oliver Parodi

  5. Examples of Focal Projects (Startup 2009-2010) Dr. Oliver Parodi

  6. 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 Dr. Oliver Parodi

  7. 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) Dr. Oliver Parodi

  8. 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 www.mensch-und-technik.kit.edu Dr. Oliver Parodi

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