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TUM Vice President Gerhard Kramer congratulates Reverion founder Stephan Herrmann.
6/28/2024
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TUM Entrepreneurship Day brings together Munich ecosystem

Presidential Award goes to energy start-up

For the development of its high-efficiency power plant, the start-up Reverion has received the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award. In addition to generating electric power with biogas, the plant can also produce hydrogen from surplus energy. Finalists for the award included Planet A Foods, with a sustainable alternative to chocolate, and RobCo, with a robotics system for small and midsized enterprises. The TUM Entrepreneurship Day brought together attendees from the large and diverse Munich innovation ecosystem.

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6/19/2024
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TUM Industry on Campus partner invests 100 million euros

SAP research center opened at TUM Campus Garching

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and SAP are deepening their intensive partnership with a new research center for artificial intelligence on the Garching campus. With an investment volume of 100 million euros, the building complex was officially opened on Wednesday. In the future, 700 SAP employees and 120 TUM researchers will work together on software solutions there.

President Research Campus news Artificial Intelligence Community
6/12/2024
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TUM Sustainability Day 2024 at the Garching Research Campus

"A grand festival of sustainability"

Sustainability is not a buzzword at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) but a serious mission. With the TUM Sustainable Futures Strategy 2030, the university set itself the goal a year and a half ago of integrating sustainability more deeply into its work and structure and also getting students and employees on board. The TUM Sustainability Day 2024 at the Garching research campus showed that this works.

President Studies Campus news Sustainability Community
6/11/2024
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Visit of UQ President Deborah Terry to TUM

TUM and University of Queensland expand flagship partnership

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia further deepen their flagship partnership, which has existed since 2021. During the visit of a UQ delegation led by President Prof. Deborah Terry to Munich, several agreements were signed, primarily on student exchanges.

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TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, Professor of Computer Science Prof. Manfred Broy, Friedrich L. Bauer's widow Hildegard Bauer, sculptor Ubbo Enninga, donor Ernst Denert, TUM President Emeritus Prof. Wolfgang A. Herrmann and Prof. Markus Schwaiger, President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, next to the bust of Friedrich L. Bauer.
6/10/2024
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Father of informatics in Germany

TUM commemorates Prof. Friedrich L. Bauer

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is marking the centenary of the birth of Prof. Friedrich L. Bauer, who held the university’s first informatics chair. A bust has now been officially unveiled outside the lecture hall named in his honor in the building of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology in Garching. Prof. Bauer made decisive contributions toward establishing informatics as a scientific field. With ALGOL 60, he also laid the foundations for modern programming languages.

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6/6/2024
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Investor and Formula 1 world champion supports TUM students

Cooperation between TUM and Nico Rosberg

The investor and Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg will collaborate with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the future. With his foundation Rosberg Philanthropies, he will support the TUM University Foundation as a sponsor, has announced a Student Challenge as part of the TUM Sustainability Day on 12 June in Garching, and will appear as a speaker at the TUM Speakers Series.

President Sustainability Community
6/4/2024
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Thematic expansion of the Munich Data Science Institute

TUM and Creditreform on the hunt for greenwashing

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the provider of business information Creditreform have launched a comprehensive cooperation to research various aspects of environmental, social, and management responsibility in companies (Environmental Social Governance). A central concern of the collaboration is the quality of data and information in order to effectively combat so-called greenwashing, i.e., the deliberate pretense of sustainable business practices.

President Research Community
5/26/2024
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Statement on the incidents on Sylt

TUM distances itself from xenophobic attitudes and statements

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) distances itself unequivocally from xenophobic attitudes, unconstitutional gestures and comments such as those shown in the video currently circulating from Sylt.

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TUM President Thomas Hofmann with Stefanie Jegelka and Suvrit Sra
5/14/2024

Stefanie Jegelka and Suvrit Sra were honored with Germany's most highly endowed research award

Two new Humboldt Professorships in the field of Artificial Intelligence

Prof Stefanie Jegelka and Prof Suvrit Sra are the new Humboldt Professors at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Artificial Intelligence. The researchers moved together from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA to Bavaria.

President Research Artificial Intelligence
5/7/2024
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Interview with Thomas F. Hofmann

"I'd like to encourage everyone to experiment"

With proposals for three new research clusters, TUM is participating in the next round of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. We spoke with president Thomas F. Hofmann about how the new round has gone so far and what lies ahead.

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