• Direct access to cutting-edge research: Students experience state-of-the-art research infrastructures up close.
• Interactive exchange: Students come into direct contact with leading researchers and scientists. 
• Motivation through practice: Insights into the working world of researchers and scientists and the exchange with those involved inspire students and awaken their enthusiasm for scientific work. 
• Future-oriented education: Students experience the relevance and possible applications of what they have learned in real research scenarios.

At KIT, as at other universities, the concept of research-oriented teaching represents the umbrella for a variety of ways of realising the link between research and teaching. However, the environment for the realisation of research-oriented teaching is unique at KIT. Through the merger of the Karlsruhe Research Centre, as part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, with the University of Karlsruhe, KIT has a large number of research infrastructures, in particular large-scale research infrastructures directly on campus - like no other university in Germany. RIRO Teaching utilises this unique selling point; generally in the context of research-oriented teaching but also with a specific focus on research-based learning, hands-on and together with the researchers at the research infrastructures. The table below provides an overview of a variety of events in which students have direct points of contact with KIT's research infrastructures. Would you like to find out more about how we have promoted research-based learning at the research infrastructures as part of the current University of Excellence? Then you can find more information under RIRO-Grants Grants.