TUM Industry on Campus partner invests 100 million euros

SAP research center opened at TUM Campus Garching

Bavaria's Science Minister Markus Blume said: "Software forge meets institution of excellence: Europe's largest software company SAP and our TU Munich, Germany's best university, are launching a pioneering research collaboration. At the new SAP Labs Campus, members of TUM and SAP are working together to turn clever ideas into new innovations. The next outstanding center of excellence for science and business is being created in Garching. The cooperation between TUM and SAP is the most extensive of its kind in Germany and the new campus fits perfectly into our Bavarian innovation ecosystem. This opens up the best future opportunities for Bavaria, from Bavaria and beyond!"

President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann said: "As TUM, we have enjoyed a long, successful, and trusting collaboration with SAP. I am very pleased that we can further deepen and expand this partnership with the new research building on our campus in Garching. We build a bridge between academic excellence and entrepreneurial innovation to transform pioneering ideas into marketable and competitive products."

SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig emphasized: "The SAP Labs Munich Campus is a vibrant center for interdisciplinary collaboration within an open ecosystem. Customers, partners, TUM employees, students, start-ups, SAP employees, and guests come together here. The campus stands for innovation and cooperation and underlines the long-standing, close relationship between SAP and TUM. This is a place for development and joint research into the future. That's great."

The connection between TUM and SAP has existed since 2003, focusing not only on research and development but also on the scientific training of students and doctoral candidates. They can test and expand their skills on specific challenges from the business world and develop directly applicable solutions.

The following TUM chairs and research groups from the TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology will - in part - move into the new research center:

• Prof. Dr. Zeynep Akata - Interpretable and Reliable Machine Learning
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bauer - Applied Topology and Geometry
• Prof. Dr. Stefanie Jegelka - Foundations of Deep Neural Networks
• Prof. Dr. Niki Kilbertus - Ethics in Systems Design and Machine Learning
• Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar - Information Systems
• Prof. Dr. Christian Mendl - Quantum Computing
• Prof. Dr. Suvrit Sra - Resource Aware Machine Learning
• Prof. Dr. Ingo Weber - IT Service Management, Development and Operations
• Dr. Holger Wittges - Information Systems and Business Process Management