Public Engagement | Dialog and Partnership with Society

As a university, we want to actively shape the future and put people at the center of our work in the spirit of human-centred engineering. Discover the dimensions of our public engagement strategy: Inspire • Engage • Enable.

Our society is facing major challenges. TUM is committed to making a sustainable contribution to society through human-centered science and engineering. Public engagement formats foster dialogue with the public, which in turn benefits our researchers.

Inspire

Informing the public
Inspiring people

Engage

Involving the public
Mutual learning and co-creation

Enable

Empowering our researchers to engage in dialog
Supporting public engagement research

MCube-Mobilität in München — Wishes and thoughts on the mobility of the future: Citizen Lab with the MCube cluster at the IAA Mobility on Munich's Marienplatz.

Inspire

Lectures, open labs, guided tours: With over 300 formats, members of the TUM community inform the public. We aspire to further expand these, putting special emphasis on programs at and for schools.

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Inspiring enthusiasm for science

Prof. Jürgen Richter-Gebert founded the ix-quadrat exhibition on the Garching research campus. Experience mathematics in a playful way and learn that it can be great fun.

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Understandable and entertaining

Prof. Corinna Dawid researches the composition of food. At the TUM@Freising event, she explains her experiments and engages in dialog with the public.

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Understanding the qantum world

The QuantWorld learning platform is designed to help citizens discover how quantum technologies affect their daily lives.

Engage

Together with stakeholders in society, we plan research projects and analyze results, for example in the area of mobility. We intend to specifically promote and develop such collaborations, as many of society's challenges can only be solved together.

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Places for joint research

The public must be involved in technology development right from the start, says Prof. Jörg Niewöhner. He is building public science labs where researchers can exchange ideas with society.

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Blue-green algae app for bathing lakes

Dr. Franziska Bauer and her team are investigating cyanobacteria in Bavarian lakes. The evidence comes from the public, who in turn are warned about toxic blue-green algae.

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Learning with AI

At the TUM Center for Educational Technologies, learners and teachers are involved in the development of new technologies, says Director Prof. Enkelejda Kasneci.

Enable

To communicate our research findings, we rely above all on the researchers at TUM. They are the best ambassadors for their work, and we seek to empower them to enter into a dialog with the public.

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Patient perspective

Even when designing a study, we consider the patient's perspective, says Prof. Markus Ploner, who researches therapies for pain.

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Bridge to the public

For Prof. Stefania Centrone, the Public Engagement Academy is a "wonderful TUM initiative". The philosopher believes it is important to be able to explain complicated matters in a simple way.

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Citizen science and more

Get to know current projects in which we involve the public in scientific processes.

Join in the research

Women of TUM Talks 2019

Our practice network

Network, exchange experiences and strengthen your own outreach skills.

Networking and training

Schülerinnen experimentieren im Labor des Schülerforschungszentrums Berchtesgadener Land.

School meets science

Bring science into schools and get children and young people excited about science and technology.

Inspiring children and young people

How you can support us!

New formats for entering into dialog with the public, research projects with society, communication training – all this costs time and money. You can support us!

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Public Engagement Team
Corporate Communications Center
Arcisstr. 21
80333 Munich
engagespam prevention@tum.de