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Vizepräsident Prof. Gerhard Kramer verleiht den TUM Presidential Entrepreneuship Award an Flora Geske, Gründerin des Start-ups SUMM AI.

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Presidential Award goes to start-up SUMM AI

For the development of an AI tool that translates complex texts into plain language, the start-up SUMM AI has received the...

6/27/2025 Reading time 1 min.

Claudia Eckert, Professorin für Sicherheit der Informatik und Leiterin des Fraunhofer AISEC, übernimmt das Amt der wissenschaftlichen Präsidentin von acatech.

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IT security expert

Claudia Eckert new president of acatech

Professor Claudia Eckert has become the new Scientific President of the National Academy of Science and Engineering...

7/1/2025 Reading time 2 min.

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TUM University Hospital

Construction starts on Centre for Digital Medicine and Health

Construction has officially begun on the new Center for Digital Medicine and Health (ZDMG) at the Technical University of...

6/27/2025 Reading time 4 min.

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TUM spin-off worth over a billion dollars

Isar Aerospace becomes a unicorn

Isar Aerospace, a space company that was started at our university, has achieved unicorn status with a company valuation of...

6/26/2025 Reading time 2 min.

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6/30–7/4

GARNIX Open Air

Mon 6/30/2025 – Fri 7/4/2025

Garching

Enjoy live music and a beer garden in the middle of the Garching campus - admission is free!

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7/3–6

Festival der Zukunft

Thu 3 – Sun 7/6/2025

Munich

Catch up on the latest innovations in technology, business and society. Free admission at the weekend!

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7/4

Academic dragon boat race

Fri 7/4/2025, 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Munich

Who will be “Master of the Olympic Lake” at the 14th TUM and LMU Dragon Boat Race? Register your team now!

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7/5

Open House TUM University Hospital

Sat 7/5/2025, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Munich

The Rechts der Isar and German Heart Center sites offer you an insight into many areas of medicine.

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What drives us: President Thomas F. Hofmann about TUM

Research and innovations for society, innovative teaching and continuing education: This is how we shape a sustainable future, relying on the intelligence of the entire university and working closely with global partners to do so.

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Our research goals

Understanding the essential foundations of life

We explore which fundamental forces and mechanisms shaped the universe and how its galaxies, stars and planets developed - and how life originated.

Maintaining health and targeting diseases

How will we treat serious illnesses in the future and how can we make reliable diagnoses more quickly? We address these questions with the latest technologies and methods.

Shaping a sustainable living environment

We combine all our expertise to slow down climate change and create sustainable places to live and work.

Creating new materials and manufacturing technologies

High-precision sensors on a quantum basis and new systems for storing energy - we develop digital manufacturing technologies and sustainable process engineering.

Pioneering digital transformation for a secure future

We develop secure digital technologies that make life and work easier. Our goal is to find solutions to questions of digital change and to constantly drive them forward.