Elke Siedentopp receives a KFG award for outstanding support for science
The association “KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V.” (KFG) awards annual prizes to KIT employees from administration, infrastructure or infrastructure-related scientific institutions as well as to non-academic young talent for particularly outstanding support services for science. The KFG determines the prize winners and the amount of prize money based on a proposal from a KIT internal selection committee.
Ms. Siedentopp, secretary at the Professorship 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 at the KFG’s summer reception on July 15, 2024 in the NTI lecture hall awarded in 2023.
Ms. Siedentopp has worked as a secretary at the Faculty of Architecture since 1998. She was extremely committed to 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 has exceeded the enormous range of special tasks within this competition. It 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-world laboratory at this location and can be viewed by the interested public, a task that Ms. Siedentopp is also responsible for. Ms. Siedentop will retire at the end of 2024.
We congratulate Ms. Siedentopp on this special award and wish her all the best for her professional and private future!
