Welcome to the DFIU

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The DFIU was established in 1991 as a research institution with the mandate to sustain the widespread wish of France and Germany for strengthening the cross-border scientific cooperation in the field of environmental research. Since then, our ambition is to be one of the central scientific players in the area of French-German and international environmental research. Click here for further information.

  

Directors

Prof. Dr. Wolf Fichtner

Prof. Dr. Frank Schultmann

 

Dr. Daniel Sloot
Deputy Director DFIU

Dr. Kristin Limbach
Deputy Director DFIU
 

 

Deutsch-Französisches Institut für Umweltforschung (DFIU)/ French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU)
 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Campus West 06.33

Hertzstr. 16

76187 Karlsruhe, Deutschland

Phone: +49 721 608-44460

Fax: +49 721 608-44682

E-Mail: Sekretariat

DFIU News

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Prestige visitors

On 25 July, 2024, the French Counselor for Science and Technology, Siegfried Martin-Diaz, visited the KIT together with a delegation of French diplomats. On behalf of the French-German Institute of Environmental Research (DFIU), Dr. Daniel Sloot presented insights on the DFIU-GEM Energy Survey, an annual survey that measures the acceptance of the energy transition in France and Germany. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity to showcase exciting research projects at the KIT and discuss new avenues for French-German scientific cooperation.

 

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Research and Innovation Day at the French Embassy in Berlin

On 21 May 2024, the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in Germany organised a first edition of the Franco-German Day of Research and Innovation. This day is an initiative of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs launched in 2023 and supported by Campus France France.

More than a hundred researchers from France and Germany, including our Managing Director Kristin Limbach, came together at the French Embassy in Berlin to learn about the tools of Franco-German scientific cooperation, its limits and prospects, the route towards an ANR/DFG funded research project and recommendations for programmes specific to various scientific disciplines. The day was marked by round table discussions, workshops as well as scientific exchange, where the researchers had three minutes to present their work on stage and afterwards the scientific posters of their colleagues could be discovered.

It was a rich and informative day and we are looking forward to put French-German cooperation into practice!

 

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KickOff of the AsimutE project

On 16 May, we had the pleasure of attending the official kick-off meeting of the AsimutE project at the Interreg Strasbourg headquarters.

On site we had a good opportunity to meet with our colleagues and funding partners to discuss the further progress of the AsimutE project and to exchange ideas.

We are looking forward for our next meeting in July.