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

Entrepreneurship Day

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.

Start-up-Gründer im TUM Venture Lab Food / Agro / Biotech

Entrepreneurship

Study on Germany, Austria and Switzerland

TUM produces the most start-up founders

Where did most start-up founders study and research? A study by TUM, ETH Zurich and the University of Innsbruck shows a...

6/26/2025 Reading time 1 min.

Entrepreneurship

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.

Sustainability

Participatory research

Exploring the urban soundscape through audio walks

Take a walk through the city and contribute to research at the same time: Residents of Munich now have the opportunity to...

6/25/2025 Reading time 2 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

6/27–29

Kunstareal Festival 2025

Fri 27 – Sun 6/29/2025

Munich

Discover creative perspectives between science, technology, art and society.

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6/29

TUM tanzt! – Ubuntu

Sun 6/29/2025, 4:30 pm – 4:50 pm

Munich

Visit the final performance of the student project “Community Dance” with TUM students!

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6/29–7/26

Escape from Carbonia: Science Escape Room

Sun 6/29/2025 – Sat 7/26/2025

Munich

Discover research on future energy from the Cluster of Excellence e-conversion in this Science Escape Room.

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6/30

Lunch Series: AI in Academia for Research and Productivity

Mon 6/30/2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Online

Find out how you can use artificial intelligence in your research in this presentation by Dr. Daniel Mertens.

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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.