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The state parliament has discussed the second law on the further development of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT. As The Research University in the Helmholtz Association KIT will in future be able to combine research teaching and innovation even more closely.In its first reading the state parliament is discussing a law to complete the nationwide unique merger at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT . The federal and state governments had agreed on this. Unprecedented nationwide a university and a large research center are consolidating and deepening their already completed merger. As The Research University in the Helmholtz Association KIT will in future be able to combine research teaching and innovation even more closely.KIT is already an excellent and unique scientific institution. In future employees will no longer work in separate areas when carrying out university and large-scale research tasks. A uniform legal framework applies for this. This underlines the uniqueness of KIT in the German science landscape and creates even better foundations for research teaching and innovation from a single source said Science Minister Theresia Bauer on the occasion of the introduction of the law. These framework conditions and scientific environment exist in this form only at KIT. Special thanks go to the federal governments constructive stance on the further development of KIT said the minister.Develop new legal structuresIn order to exploit the full potential in research teaching and innovation administrative hurdles will be reduced and more flexibility in the use of funds and personnel will be enabled. There was a completely new legal structure - especially in the areas of human resources and finance - that take into account the requirements of both a state university and a large research institution. On the legal and financial framework of the merger the state and the federal government have agreed on an administrative agreement that is to be signed at the beginning of next year.The KIT will continue to have the tasks of a university and a large research center. The combination of free basic research and strategic Helmholtz research in one facility is part of the DNA of KIT continued Minister Bauer. It is precisely this combination that makes the KIT so particularly attractive. It creates a magnetic effect that will attract excellent national and international scientists as well as students to Karlsruhe. The aim is to create synergies through the stronger unit that lead to an even higher scientific quality. In future students would have the unique opportunity to be trained directly on large-scale research equipment - and for their part to provide impetus for large-scale research.Bill in the state parliamentThe fact that the second KIT further development law is now being introduced into the state parliament is a huge signal for us. Because the new law shows a way how we at KIT can climb the next level of unity said the President of KIT Professor Holger Hanselka. In future all scientists should be able to participate equally in university and large-scale research tasks. We will have a human body and a uniform legal regime. We are finally leaving the world of separate systems behind us continues Hanselka. This will further strengthen the strategic orientation of KIT as a university of excellence in the competition between research institutions and what we have longed for will become reality. I am very pleasedAs a university of excellence KIT is one of the most renowned universities in Germany with a high but expandable international appeal says the chairman of the supervisory board of KIT Professor Michael Kaschke. It is important to me and also a common goal with the Presidium to further advance the development of KIT as a unique scientific institution so that it can develop its huge potential in research teaching and transfer even better. The introduction of the second KIT further development law into the state parliament is therefore an extremely important step for me Kaschke continued. Because it shows that politicians are setting the necessary political course and giving KIT a clear design mandate.Strengthening the Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyWith the reform and the further interlinking of the tasks of the KIT the framework conditions of the KIT for the performance of its tasks are to be strengthened. In an institution with shared structures and with a uniform legal framework the KIT is intended to combine top-level research outside of universities and universities with excellent academic training and to be a focal point for comprehensive innovations. The aim is to further interlink research teaching and innovation - from basic research to application-oriented research at a high level and with corresponding teaching.This is clearly expressed in the KIT Act among other things in the abolition of the previously independent areas of university area and large research area as well as the dissolution of the corresponding special assets. The tasks of the scientific staff are brought together. A new status office will be set up for the scientific management staff Service tasks can be both university and large-scale research tasks. This makes it possible to assign tasks to individual scientists very flexibly.According to the coordinated administrative agreement the federal funds for the large-scale research task are to be made available to KIT via the state in the future the draft law contains instruments that the Ministry of Science needs to ensure the requirements of the federal government regarding large-scale research funds at KIT.The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT is one of the largest German scientific institutions. The KIT was founded on October 1 2009 as a merger of the University of Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH.
