 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is a public research university and one of the largest research and educational institutions in Germany.KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (), founded in 1825 as a public research university and also known as the "Fridericiana", merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center (), which had originally been established in 1956 as a national nuclear research center (, or KfK).