Our Tasks
The Digital Office, including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), is the central unit that supports KIT in its digitalization efforts and advises and supports the management level in its responsibilities in this regard.
The Digital Office acts as an overarching mediator in terms of the management level’s responsibility. It is assigned to the Executive Board Department “Digitalization and Sustainability” and supports the Vice President Prof. Dr. Kora Kristof in her responsibility for the digitalization area of action in the KIT 2025 Strategy.
The Digital Office thus generally examines the possibilities and benefits of digitalization for KIT and drives them forward. The technical requirements and users’ needs are recorded and taken into account for the further development of KIT’s digital infrastructure.
Our Offerings
The Digital Office:
- advises and supports the Executive Board and the heads of divisions in shaping digitalization and information security issues.
- Together with the CIO, is responsible for the development and implementation of the digitalization strategy as part of the KIT 2025 Strategy.
- is responsible for creating structures (e.g. committees) for setting and coordinating digitalization topics and projects.
- provides and maintains an overview of digitalization at KIT and is the universal point of contact - in the sense of a pilot function - for digitalization topics at KIT.
- takes up user requirements, current developments and interests and brings them to the right place at KIT in a targeted manner.
- advises and supports in setting up and preparing digitization projects.
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Which topics are affected by digitalization at KIT?
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Information security should adequately protect an organization’s information. How does KIT safeguard the fundamental values of confidentiality, integrity and availability?
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Digitalization is part of the KIT 2025 Strategy as a strategic area of action. What goals and measures is KIT pursuing?
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How does KIT guarantee all stakeholder groups are involved in the processing of upcoming and future digitalization topics?
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09.04.2025 The project "Innovation Space for Generative AI at KIT" (SCC, DO, ZML) presents a first milestone: The newly developed AI competence module, which helps KIT employees to acquire the necessary skills for the responsible use of AI.
03.04.2025 The state project “bwJupyter for teaching” has recently started regular operation of the Jupyter web application. This allows lecturers and students to access computing environments and resources in the state. With the extended availability, there are also numerous new features. The state service is being developed by the SCC and the University of Stuttgart.
bwJupyter website
20.3.2025 The project “Innovation space for generative AI at KIT” is developing a framework for the use of generative AI at KIT, which is intended to advance both the infrastructure and practice-oriented applications. DO, SCC and ZML are involved in the project.
10.03.2025 The digitalization project UP D1 "Teaching and Learning Locations for Teaching Staff and Learners" developed a media technology concept for centrally managed lecture and seminar rooms. The project has now been successfully completed. The defined media technology standards will be implemented as part of the renovation. In addition, the equipment of large seminar rooms with cameras is being examined to enable recordings. Renovation work can be carried out during the lecture period, whereby close coordination with the teaching staff is ensured. The project core team will regularly monitor the implementation by the responsible organizational units.
You can find further news about digitalization at KIT in our news list.