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Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, at a discussion.
7/1/2024
Reading time: 5 Min.

Global discourse series „One Topic, One Loop“: Alyssa Gilbert

Promoting climate innovation alone is not enough

How can universities integrate sustainability into their infrastructure and daily activities? In the global discourse series “One Topic, One Loop”, we present the perspectives of four universities from four different countries. Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, answers the question posed by Werner Lang, TUM's Vice President for Sustainable Transformation.

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Research Sustainability Community
TUM Vice President Gerhard Kramer congratulates Reverion founder Stephan Herrmann.
6/28/2024
Reading time: 4 Min.

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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Professor Allister Loder
6/26/2024
Reading time: 4 Min.

NewIn: Allister Loder

“We don’t want to get rid of the car”

As a professor of mobility policy, Allister Loder is studying a topic of great current interest – but one that stirs up strong emotions. In the new issue of NewIn, he explains how an engineer ended up working in the social sciences, what Munich could learn from London, and how he plans to learn more about people’s everyday mobility needs.

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Studies Research Sustainability Mobility Community
6/19/2024
Reading time: 3 Min.

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.

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President Research Campus news Artificial Intelligence Community
View of the "Light and Matter" exhibition with numerous interactive stations.
6/19/2024
Reading time: 3 Min.

Special exhibition "Light and Matter" makes quantum physics tangible

A „Quantum“ Insight

From the scanner at the supermarket checkout to high-speed internet surfing through fibre optic cables: developments in quantum physics have long been part of our everyday lives and are widely used. In the new special exhibition ‘Light and Matter’, quantum optical phenomena are now being illuminated and made tangible at the Deutsches Museum. As part of the Cluster of Excellence Munich Centre for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), the exhibition also offers an insight into current research and an outlook on future applications.

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Research Quantum Technologies Community
6/12/2024
Reading time: 2 Min.

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.

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President Studies Campus news Sustainability Community
Researchers in a laboratory
6/12/2024
Reading time: 1 Min.

Impact Rankings released by Times Higher Education

TUM tops global standings in innovation

In the THE University Impact Rankings, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has again taken the top spot in the category industry, innovation, and infrastructure. The rankings measure the contribution of universities to sustainable innovations – through research, spin-offs and industrial partnerships.

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TUM in Rankings Research Entrepreneurship Sustainability Community
6/11/2024
Reading time: 1 Min.

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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President Studies Community
Prof Werner Lang, photographed on the roof of the Oskar von Miller Forum.
6/10/2024
Reading time: 4 Min.

Global discourse series „One Topic, One Loop“: Werner Lang

Getting everyone on board for greater sustainability

How can universities integrate sustainability into their infrastructure and daily activities? In the global discourse series “One Topic, One Loop”, we present the perspectives of four universities from four different countries. Werner Lang, TUM's Vice President for Sustainable Transformation, kicks off the series by sharing his vision of a more sustainable university and the players needed to make it a success.

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Research Sustainability Mobility Community
High water in Thannhausen in 2024
6/6/2024
Reading time: 2 Min.

Current information from HR

Floods: Paid time off for affected employees

Flooding and high water have caused devastating damage in Bavaria over the past few days. A state of emergency has been declared in some regions. If TUM employees are affected by this, they can be released from work under certain conditions, for example to secure their property or to deal with the consequences of the disaster.

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