KIT opened its doors to visitors on May 17 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. "With our Open Day, we want to give something back to society and show with a wealth of exciting offers how we are helping to shape tomorrow in the awareness of social responsibility," said Professor Jan S. Hesthaven, President of KIT. The program includes more than three hundred individual offers. It is aimed at the whole family. The Visitors' Day is rounded off by a Campus Day for prospective students.
Campus day for prospective students
The Campus Day, which took place at the same time, brought young people closer to the world of science and research: "We cannot afford to lose young people who are talented and committed but decide against KIT because they are unfamiliar with the university world," says Hesthaven. On Campus Day, the eleven KIT faculties presented their more than 100 Bachelor's and Master's degree programs. In information lectures and individual consultations, but also in hands-on activities, guided tours, and experiments, prospective students and their parents learned first-hand what studying at KIT is all about.
Science you can touch
From intuitive robots to geothermal heat from underground, from brain-computer interfaces to self-driving tractors: The more than 300 individual offers at the KIT Open Day were based on a wide range of research topics. KIT used different forms of communication. There were guided tours, exhibitions, hands-on experiments and popular science lectures. One striking example is the "Sustainability Trail": sustainability as a cross-cutting topic at KIT was made tangible at more than 40 stations.
"Time capsule" project of the KIT archive
In the "time capsule" project, visitors were invited to contribute small objects, memorabilia or written contributions that reflected personal messages or collective experiences and wishes.