Excellent Diversity

The "Fakultätentag Informatik" (FTI) awarded this year's prizes on September 18, 2025 as part of the INFORMATIK FESTIVAL of the Gesellschaft für Informatik in Potsdam. In addition to the Equal Opportunity Prize, Eren Keskin from TU Braunschweig received the prize for an outstanding Master's thesis 2025. Both prizes, each endowed with €2,000, were presented by FTI Chairman Professor Dr. Gerald Lüttgen.

The prize for outstanding equality and diversity work 2025 went to the project "eezi - An introduction to studying informatics", which has been successfully offered at the Department of Informatics at KIT since the winter semester 2016/17. Christine Glaubitz, who designed the project and has been supervising and developing it since 2016, accepted the award together with the Dean of Studies, Professor Dr. Anne Koziolek, and three tutors.

The "eezi" project supports students with a variety of new challenges they face at the start of their studies. The aim is to provide orientation and create an awareness of individual paths and strengths. The project is aimed at students with different biographies and backgrounds, with and without previous knowledge of computer science, from Germany and abroad, with language barriers, health restrictions or caring responsibilities.

In his laudatory speech, Professor Lüttgen emphasized that aspects such as social background, cultural background, gender and educational experience are not only addressed, but are embedded in the structure of the entire "eezi" curriculum. The targeted promotion of diversity and the wealth of individual components of the project, ranging from lectures and tutorials to individual counseling sessions, convinced the equal representation jury chaired by Professor Dr. Kirstin Peters from the University of Augsburg.

About the ""Fakultätentag Informatik"

The "Fakultätentag Informatik der Universitäten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (FTI) e.V." has represented the interests of computer science faculties and institutes at German universities since 1973 and coordinates university education in the key discipline of computer science. Today, the non-profit association has 55 member and 26 guest faculties with a total of over 100,000 students.

The "Fakultätentag Informatik" is committed to modern computer science that serves our society in overcoming current and future challenges and supports the digitalization of all areas of knowledge and application. It has an integrating effect with regard to the increasing interdisciplinarity of the subject and promotes equality and diversity.