School meets Science
We want to get young people enthusiastic about science and technology. We do this by providing learning activities and supporting teachers with our expertise in educational research.
Bring science into your classroom! Invite researchers for exciting talks, visit our student labs and hands-on exhibitions with school groups. Our school outreach offers make science and technology tangible and understandable. Benefit from new methods and technical innovations for teaching, which we develop together with our school network.
School student research centers
Experiment on your own, develop new perspectives, and discover the fascinating world of science and technology at dedicated research centers set up especially for school pupils. These ‘Schülerforschungszentren (SFZ)’ are educational projects under the scientific direction of TUM and offer class workshops, weekend and vacation programs, experimentation days or camps such as the STEM Academy, and much more.
Further school labs and offers for pupils
Experiment and discover
School programs of the Clusters of Excellence
Experience cutting-edge research
The team from the e-Conversion cluster offers lectures and laboratory tours as well as workshops with hands-on experiments on the topics of energy conversion, climate change, renewable energies, batteries, thermodynamics and photosynthesis. We are constantly developing new offers, just ask.
On the Garching campus, pupils can find out all about light in the PhotonLab , including laboratory tours and independent experimentation. This school lab for photonics also offers numerous online services, interactive digital media and teaching materials, plus the chidren's audio play "Alice in Quantum Land".
The PhotonLab has been in existence since 2011 and was set up by the MPQ, LMU Munich and the Cluster of Excellence Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology. The cluster’s also reaches out to the public with exciting science talks, and offers trainings for school teachers.
What do we ask ourselves when we look up at the sky on a starry night? What is the origin of the universe - and how did life come about? The ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence is exploring these questions and bringing the fascinating universe into schools. The outreach team offers exciting physics lectures by researchers, teaching materials and further training for teachers in the fields of astrophysics, biophysics and particle physics.
Pupils discover neuroscience at the SyNergy Cluster of Excellence: Winners of the Jugend Forscht competition pursue their own projects in the laboratory, and scientists give insights into their research at school lectures.