Elke Siedentopp receives an award from the KFG for outstanding support for science

Elke Siedentopp bei der PreisverleihungKIT
The association "KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V." (KFG) awards annual prizes to KIT employees from the administration, infrastructure or infrastructure-related scientific institutions as well as from the non-academic junior staff for particularly outstanding support services for science. The award winners and the amount of the prize money are determined by the KFG on the basis of a proposal by an internal KIT selection committee.

Ms. Siedentopp, secretary at the Chair of Sustainable Building at the KIT Faculty of Architecture, was awarded one of these prizes with prize money of € 1,500.00 for her achievements in 2023 at the KFG summer reception on July 15, 2024 in the NTI lecture hall.

Ms. Siedentopp has worked as a secretary at the Faculty of Architecture since 1998. She was extremely involved in the Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22 university competition, the world's largest architecture competition for universities, from which the RoofKIT project submitted by KIT emerged as the winner. In over three years of intensive interdisciplinary teamwork, Ms. Siedentopp overfulfilled the enormous spectrum of special tasks within the framework of this competition. She managed a budget of EUR 1.6 million. The building prototype of this project was inaugurated on the South Campus in April 2023. Since then, it has served as a research and real laboratory at this location and can be visited by the interested public, a task that Ms. Siedentopp also helps to supervise.

We congratulate Ms. Siedentopp on this special award and wish her all the best for her professional and private future!