About Kurt Lewin

The KLI is named after Kurt Lewin who emigrated from Germany to the United States of America in the 1930s and laid the foundations for research in human relations - the central theme of the Institute.

Lewin was one of the founding fathers of social psychology. Additionally, Lewin strongly emphasised the complementarity of basic and applied research and it is precisely this complementarity that characterises the overall research programme of the KLI.