Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe is the third-largest city of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart, and Mannheim. Its 308,436 inhabitants make it the 21st-largest city of Germany. On the right bank of the Rhine, the city lies near the French-German border, between the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen conurbation to the north, and the Strasbourg/Kehl conurbation to the south. It is the largest city of Baden, a historic region named after Hohenbaden Castle in the city of Baden- Baden. The city is the seat of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) as well as the Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice (Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof).
Please visit this website for information about events in the city, hotels, transportation, etc: https://www.karlsruhe-erleben.de/en
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and a national research center in the Helmholtz Association that is one of the largest educational institutions and the largest research institution by funding in Germany. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (Universität Karlsruhe), founded in 1825 as a public research university and also known as the "Fridericiana", merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), which had originally been established in 1956 as a national nuclear research center (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, KfK). This part is now called Campus North.
KIT is a member of the TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology. As part of the German Universities Excellence Initiative KIT was one of three universities which were awarded excellence status in 2006. In the following "German Excellence Strategy" , KIT was awarded as one of eleven "Excellence Universities" in 2019. KIT is among the leading technical universities in Germany and Europe and established the first German faculty for computer science in 1972. According to different bibliometric rankings, KIT is the German university with the strongest research in engineering and natural sciences.
Workshop Venue
The workshop will be hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and will take place in Campus North (Hermann-von-Helmholtz- Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen). Campus north is located 10 km outside the city, next to the town of Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen. It can be reached by car or bus from the center of Karlsruhe (~25 minutes).
The most convenient way to reach Campus North is with the KIT shuttle service (stop location, timetables)
Campus North is also reachable by public transportation, but it takes considerably longer. From the center one can take the tram (S1/11 or S2) and change into the bus number 195 to reach the stop “KIT-CN Südtor”. The buses run 2-3 times per hour in both directions.
Travel Information
There are several options to reach Karlsruhe:
- Bus and train (ICE) connections are provided by the Karlsruhe main train station.
- There are three main airports in the vicinity of Karlsruhe:
- Frankfurt Airport (direct train connection to Karlsruhe, ~1 hour)
- Stuttgart Airport (Bus/S-Bahn to Stuttgart Central Station and then direct train to Karlsruhe, ~1.5 hours)
- Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airport (Bus to Rastatt or Baden-Baden central stations and then direct train to Karlsruhe, ~1 hour)
Accomodation Information
The city of Karlsruhe provides several options for accommodation. Here are some suggestions:
- ACHAT Hotel
- Alfa Hotel
- VG Hotel Astoria
- SevenDays- Karlsruhe Hotel
- Hotel Barbarossa
- AAAA Hotel
- Hotel am Markt
- B&B Hotel
