Since 2011, the KIT Center Climate, Environment and Resources has been regularly organizing KIT Climate Lectures and KIT Environment Lectures on current climate and environmental topics. The lectures take place in various spaces in Karlsruhe such as the garden hall of the Karlsruhe Schloss or in the TRIANGEL Transfer | Kultur | Raum. Internationally highly respected and excellent scientists are invited to every event. They prepare their topics in such a way that interested KIT colleagues as well as citizens get an insight into the perspectives and content of their respective research. Afterwards there is an opportunity to exchange ideas with the speakers.

A series of events organized by the Sparkasse Karlsruhe Environmental Foundation in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The Karlsruhe Environmental Impulses were launched in 2019 together with the Sparkasse Karlsruhe Environmental Foundation. Experts from science, business and politics will shed light on an annual changing topic of our time in exciting panel discussions. Following the panel discussion, questions can be asked from the audience and discussed with the experts in order to gain new ideas on environmental issues.

As a non-profit institution under public law, Sparkasse Karlsruhe feels responsible not only to the citizens and institutions in its business area, but also to the general public beyond its business boundaries. For this reason and in agreement with the former University of Fridericiana Karlsruhe, now known as KIT, the Sparkasse Karlsruhe set up a foundation on October 29, 1979 to promote outstanding scientific work that serves the common good, in particular solutions of environmental protection problems. The annual awarding of the Sparkassen-Environment-Award by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Sparkasse Karlsruhe Environmental Foundation for outstanding work related to environmentally relevant topics takes place as part of the ceremonial framework of the annual meeting of the KIT Climate and Environment Center.