Project Management Karlsruhe

The Karlsruhe Project Management Agency (PTKA) was founded in 1971 and is an independent service unit in the public research funding of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) . On behalf of federal and state ministries, PTKA oversees funding measures and innovation processes in the competence fields of production, services, labor, water, disposal, and the environment and energy. In doing so, it relies on 140 employees from engineering and natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, economics and law, administrative science and various commercial professions.

Fields of competence

The technical competencies of the project executing agency Karlsruhe lie in the following areas:

• Production,
• service
• job
• water
• disposal
• Environment & energy

tasks

The core task of the project management agency Karlsruhe as a service provider is to support its clients in the program-related project funding and dissemination of research interests.

The tasks cover the entire life cycle from the analysis and design of new funding measures to the support of ongoing research projects.

Locations

The Karlsruhe Project Management Agency is an independent service unit of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the main location of which is located on Campus North . Further locations are in the technology park in Karlsruhe and at the KIT location in Dresden.

National research funding

Client

The project management organization Karlsruhe implements research and funding programs for public sector clients, both at federal and state level.

At the national level, the Karlsruhe Project Management Agency works for the following ministries:

• Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
• Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
• Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector Baden-Württemberg
• Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK)

Current funding programs

The project management agency Karlsruhe implements numerous funding programs or parts of these programs for its clients. These include:

• Innovations for the production, service and work of tomorrow
• Research for Sustainable Development (FONA)
• 6. Energy research program
• Baden-Wuerttemberg Program: Basis for Life Environment and its Protection (BWPLUS)

International research funding

The project management agency Karlsruhe performs a large number of international tasks and supports its clients within national and international networks.

• Bilateral scientific and technological cooperation
• National contact point for production
• European research initiative EUREKA
• Eurostars
• ERA-NET
• Disposal of highly radioactive waste
• Young Scientists Exchange Program (YSEP)

Web links

• Website of the project executing agency Karlsruhe
• Literature from and about project sponsor Karlsruhe in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Network of promoters

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Hanselka (Ed.): KIT Annual Report 2017 . S. 130 .
2. ↑ BMBF Internet editorship: Project management agency of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research - BMBF. Retrieved November 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Environmental and energy research . ( baden-wuerttemberg.de [accessed on November 23, 2018]).
4. ↑ Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection and Energy Sector (UM)