On 13 October 2022, Federal President Steinmeier awarded Prof. Dr. habil. Klaus J. Zink the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his extraordinary commitment to labour research and the improvement of working conditions at national and international level.

Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Zink hands over the scientific management of the Institute for Technology and Work (ITA) to Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs. 25 years ago, Klaus J. Zink founded the institute from his former chair at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern as an independent organization and built it up over the years into a recognized and successful research institution. On April 1, 2020, he will now hand over the scientific management to his successor Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs, holder of the chair for adult education at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.  

Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Zink, scientific director of the Institute for Technology and Work e.V. at the TU Kaiserslautern, was appointed to the "Future of Work" task force of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). The task force wants to work out an international state of the art for the change of the world of work and derive from it research needs for national or regional industrial science societies as well as the Technical Committees of the IEA.

At the 65th Spring Congress of the Society for Human Factors and Ergonomics (GfA) in Dresden, Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Zink, Scientific Director of the Institute for Technology and Work at the TU Kaiserslautern and Senior Research Professor "Industrial Management and Human Factors" in the Department of Economics at the TU, was awarded honorary membership of the GfA. With this he is honoured for his outstanding achievements and merits within the GfA.