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Young perspectives at the bioeconomy conference “Boosting and Mainstreaming the Bioeconomy” in Copenhagen
12/19/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

TUM students selected as EU Bioeconomy Youth Ambassadors

“Stand up for what you believe in!”

As EU Bioeconomy Youth Ambassadors, Ivana Suver and Katina Staleva represent young perspectives across Europe. Their goal: to help drive the green transition of the economy and society. In this interview, the two TUM students talk about what motivates them, how their network works – and why real change can only happen when young voices are part of the decision-making process.

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Studies Sustainability Public Engagement
12/19/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

NewIn: Sabina Leonelli

“Every researcher is faced with philosophical questions”

Sabina Leonelli is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology and heads the Public Science Lab. In the new episode of “NewIn,” she explains why looking back at history can be helpful for science and technology development, how she wants to conduct research together with non-academics, and how the perception of philosophers in Germany differs from that in other countries.

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Studies Research Community Public Engagement
Group photo of DAAD Prize winner Nadine Abdelmalek (center) with Dr. Stephan Geifes (left) and Prof. Gerhard Müller (right), as well as her sister (2nd from left) and her mother (2nd from right).
12/11/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

TUM student Nadine Abdelmalek receives DAAD Prize 2025

“Our internationality is both an asset and a responsibility”

For more than 25 years, the DAAD Prize has honored international students who excel academically and demonstrate exceptional commitment to volunteer work. This year’s recipient at TUM: Nadine Abdelmalek. The Egyptian student not only helps organize around 40 annual events for TUM’s Student Representation, but has also been active in the mentoring program for German schools abroad and participates in the German Model United Nations.

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Studies Community Public Engagement
Five people standing on a stage in front of a blue background at two bar tables, from left to right: Josef Fleischmann, Richard Emeder, Mareike Ufer, Ceyhun Aydin, and Robert Schmucker; Mr. Schmucker is speaking into a handheld microphone, facing the other four, and gesturing with his right hand.
12/8/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Three generations of the TUM Student Club in conversation

“Anything that carries the WARR name has turned out well.”

Broadening horizons, advancing technology, and finding a community of like-minded people – that’s not rocket science. Yet, sometimes it is. At a ceremony honoring TUM alumni, former and current members of the Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight (WARR) share how their work in the TUM Student Club has shaped and influenced them and their careers.

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Studies Research Entrepreneurship Community
A group of students in front of the Talente Spenden e.V. logo
12/2/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

Driving momentum for social change

Strengthening Social Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Melis Güler and Jonas Süß of Talente Spenden e.V.

What motivates students to volunteer their free time on top of their studies? Melis Güler and Jonas Süß are Deutschlandstipendium recipients who, through Talente Spenden e.V., create real social impact. Here, they share what drives them — and what they hope to achieve with the new Social Entrepreneurship Track.

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Studies Community
11/28/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

International award for assistive technology

First place for TUM team at iCANX in Hong Kong

With their interactive glasses for people who are deaf, the student team Sonovision won first prize at the international innovation competition iCANX in Hong Kong. The glasses transcribe conversations and provide visual alerts to potential danger — and could sustainably change the everyday lives of people with hearing impairments.

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Studies Research Entrepreneurship Community
Group photo of the winners of the TUM Future Learning Initiative 2025 on the roof terrace of the Vorhoelzer Forum.
11/26/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Digital twins, smart scheduling, real-time streaming, and learning formats to combat women’s poverty

The winners of the TUM Future Learning Initiative 2025

“To really boost promising projects related to study and teaching at our university” – that’s how TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann described the mission of the TUM Future Learning Initiative 2025. Dozens of proposals were submitted, and four projects particularly impressed the jury. They focus on AI-based solutions for exam preparation and study organization, automatic recording of lectures, and combating poverty among women in old age starting already during their studies.

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Teaching Studies Campus news Community
Minister of Science Markus Blume with Prof. Pretschner and the founders of OneTutor.
11/18/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

The use of AI in lectures and exercises

Using AI tools to shape the future of higher education teaching

AI-supported teaching methods are becoming increasingly common in lectures and tutorials. During the visit by Bavarian Minister of Science Markus Blume to the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the focus was on various tools developed at Bavarian universities. In addition, the initial results of the research project “AIffectiveness in Education” were presented. Using OneTutor, an AI tutor software developed at TUM, the project investigates how effectively AI systems can support learning.

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Teaching Studies Research Entrepreneurship Artificial Intelligence
Students at the lab
11/4/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

Student Club iGEM

A tattoo as biosensor

At the iGEM competition in Paris, high school and collegiate teams from around the world compete against one another with their synthetic biology research projects. TUM students were onboard again in 2025. They won a gold medal with their concept for a tattoo that monitors health-related parameters.

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Studies Research Community
Students at the Space Station Design Workshop
10/30/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Companies highlight TUM graduates

Top position in the Global Employability Ranking

Graduates of TUM are keenly sought in the international job market. This is shown by the Global University Employability Ranking, in which TUM once again achieved 13th place. In Europe, TUM is number five following the universities in Cambridge and Oxford, Imperial College London and ETH Zurich.

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TUM in Rankings Studies Community
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