TUM Sustainability Day 2024
The Sustainability Day was for all interested: students, staff, professors and external guests. Only together can we shape the sustainable development of our university.
We walk the talk
TUM is committed to a sustainable future and has sended out a clear signal with the TUM Sustainability Day on June 12, 2024: We aim to walk our talk! We activated the resources of our entire university community in the area of sustainability because we can only achieve our sustainability goals together.
We invited all students, staff and external guests to experience the diversity and potential of all sustainability topics and activities at our university on TUM Sustainability Day.
That was Sustainability Day 2024
Program highlights
The main hall of the Mechanical Engineering building in Garching has been transformed into a sustainability fair, our Market of Opportunities. Here you could get to know over 100 initiatives of the entire university community, as well as associated partners in all areas of sustainability
- Education and research
- Entrepreneurship
- Life on Earth
- Biotechnology
- Health
- Built Environment
- Energy
- Mobility
- Global Engagement
- Circular Economy
Please find information on the individual exhibitors in our program overview of the “Sustainability Fair”.
President Thomas F. Hofmann presented the status report on the sustainability transformation of our university. Inspiring keynotes also awaited you:
- Prof. Dr. Sarah Billington from Stanford University on the role of universities shaping sustainable development and
- Isabella Hennessen, who, as a student representative, talked about the role of students as "agents of change."
An extensive and interactive program with over 50 workshops, panel discussions, and various lectures awaited you. Here, you could dive deeper into different sustainability topics and actively participate in the discussions.
Highlights:
- 14:00 – 15:45: Central Panel Discussion around Sustainability at TUM: “Universitites driving Sustainability” and “TUM in Transformation”
- 14:30 – 14:45: Clean Tech Hub Launch + TUM Clean Tech Innovation Sprint 2024 Award Ceremony
- 16:30 – 17:30: Global Perspectives: CleanTech Research to Impact
- 17:00 – 18:00: TUM Speaker Series with Nico Rosberg
Moderated by Prof. Dr. Werner Lang, Vice President Sustainable Transformation, our deans of TUM discussed and reflected on sustainability in research and teaching and what we can take away from the experiences of the TUM Sustainability Day.
What would a festival be without a closing party? Organized by the student council of BauGeoUmwelt and Mechanical Engineering, we ended the day together at the bar or on the dance floor.
TUM Sustainability Week
The TUM Sustainability Day was part of the TUM Sustainability Week, which ran from June 10 to 14, 2024. The entire week at TUM was dedicated to sustainability, and several events happened daily. Please find detailed information in our program overview under “Sustainability Week.”
Whether in research, teaching or entrepreneurship, there were many sustainability topics to discover at TUM's first Sustainability Day. We invited students, employees, alumni and anyone who wanted to learn more about sustainability at TUM to network and get involved at events at all of the university's locations.
The Sustainability Day accompanies TUM's transformation into a more sustainable university. On this day, the TUM Sustainable Futures Strategy 2030 has been presented publicly for the first time. It charts our common path to a sustainable future - with specific and tangible measures.
Contact
Do you have questions?
Your contact person is:
Veronica Becker
+49 162 2815031
veronica.becker@tum.de
Sustainability Day 2024 is
coordinated by the TUM Sustainability Office.
TUM Sustainability Office
nachhaltigkeit@tum.de
