Our Public Engagement
Learn more about our research and get involved: We are bringing science and society closer together through our public engagement activities.
Get to know TUM as a hub for knowledge exchange. Come along to be inspired at public talks and events, or get involved in real-world labs and citizen science projects. Innovation needs dialogue. We engage with society because we want our research to make a real difference for a sustainable future.
Upcoming events
Come and be inspired
We need to listen to each other and share ideas! Successful innovations for people can only be achieved through dialogue between science and society.
President of TUM
Citizen Science
How we do research with society
We involve the public in scientific processes in various projects, thereby increasing the relevance of research in a variety of ways. Get to know current projects - and join in the research!
Find out more in our podcast "We are TUM" (in German): We classify the explain various concepts of public engagement with research and present three exciting projects that thrive on exchange with society.
Science up close
Museums and exhibitions
Visit the world-famous Deutsches Museum, the Pinakothek der Moderne, a number of smaller science and engineering collections, or our hands-on math and computer science exhibitions.
Join in and get involved
A small selection of offers and programs at TUM to experience research up close, from experiments for children and young people to discussions with our researchers or co-creative research projects.
Public Engagement Community at TUM
Networking and capacity building
Share your research with the public, strengthen your own outreach skills, and network with like-minded people from across the university. Become part of our public engagement community!
Join our network: Please write to us on engage@tum.de
Raise your profile, promote understanding of science, and at the same time gain new perspectives on your own research work through exchange with the public.
We offer our professors targeted training courses and individual advice for the development of their outreach skills.
- Faculty@TUM: Attend workshops on science communication and exchange ideas with experienced colleagues.
- ProLehre | Media and Didactics: Use methods and technologies of modern teaching for a lively exchange with the public
- People Development: Discover further courses and programs for important outreach skills.
- International media relations: The PR team at the Corporate Communications Center communicates research findings to the press and media worldwide.
Are you looking for advice or would you like to talk to Vice President Dr. Jeanne Rubner about your public engagement project? Contact us via engage@tum.de
Share your enthusiasm for your research topic and take the opportunity to enter into a dialogue with the public. Expand your capacities with the various qualification offers for researchers.
- CareerDesign@TUM - Researcher: Develop and implement your own public engagement format in the career program for postdocs
- Plug-in module "Science Communication and Public Engagement": also open to doctoral candicates
- ProLehre | Media and Didactics: Use methods and technologies of modern teaching for a lively exchange with the public
Further courses and programs for important outreach skills
Get involved and share your enthusiasm for your subject with the public. Start your own project, get involved in a student club for science communication, and learn more about communication and outreach in various interdisciplinary qualification programs.
Courses and seminars
- Science ⋈ Technology ⋈ Society (Kontextlehre WTG)
- Plug-in module "Science Communication and Public Engagement"
Project work
- Student Clubs: Participate in one of our numerous student initiatives
- TUMInspiriert: Design and realize your own projects
- TUM.Junge Akademie: Start your own student research project in the scholarship program for exceptionally talented and committed students
Whether in the schools or in our central administrative and service facilities: In science management, you will be working at a crucial interface that brings together the research community and society at large. Take advantage of our professional development programs to help you succeed.
- ScienceManagement@TUM: Platform for further training, exchange and networking for all employees in science management. An exclusive range of workshops provides effective tools for mastering interdisciplinary management tasks.
- TUM horizons: Training and workshops especially for statt in science-supporting and administration-related activities.