Teaching, learning, and research at a high level on the campus in the city centre and at the Schlosspark
The KIT-Department BGU takes a holistic approach to understanding, protecting, using, and sustainably shaping the environment as the basis of our lives in teaching, research, and innovations.
In this context, the geosciences and environmental sciences work closely together with the civil engineering sciences. Thus, the department makes an essential contribution to living in an attractive environment also in the future.
Please note that the dates in this calendar are not updated daily and all information is without guarantee. It is possible that dates are changed at short notice without us becoming aware of this. We therefore recommend that you check the information on the websites of the facilities concerned.
Lamia Messari-Becker was born in Morocco in 1973 and came to Germany in 1992 to study. She studied civil engineering at TU Darmstadt and completed her doctorate in 2006 on CO₂ reduction in existing residential buildings. She then headed the Sustainability and Building Physics departments at an engineering firm. From 2014 to 2024, she was Professor of Building Technology and Building Physics at the University of Siegen. Her areas of work and research include resource-efficient sustainable building, climate protection and climate adaptation in the construction industry.
She has been a member of numerous political advisory bodies, including the German Federal Government's Expert Council for Environmental Issues and the Future Council for Sustainable Development in Rhineland-Palatinate. Before moving to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, she was State Secretary of the Hessian State Government.
She is a member of the Club of Rome, the Board of Trustees of the German Museum of Technology and a member of the Supervisory Board of Forschungszentrum Jülich. In 2024, she was honored as a Pioneer 2024.
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With the beginning of the winter semester 2025/26, the KIT-Department BGU will offer the Bachelor's study program "Applied Environmental Informatics and Earth Observation". The strongly inter- and transdisciplinary course of study describes and analyzes the complex interactions between humans, nature and technology and provides a solid, broad-based, subject-related basic education in natural and engineering sciences in the field of environmental sciences and methods of earth observation.
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Freitag, KIT-Department BGU, was awarded the Faculty Teaching Award 2025.
With the Faculty Teaching Awards, the KIT Executive Board honors individuals, working groups and organizational units from the eleven KIT-Departments whose courses have distinguished themselves through research- and application-oriented teaching modules, new forms of teaching and learning, a special degree of interdisciplinarity or the particular topicality of the specialist knowledge imparted.
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