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News, research results and events: everything that enthuses people at our university.

TUM Sustainability Day 2026

Shaping sustainability together

Yesterday, students, researchers, TUM employees, and international partners demonstrated how to translate sustainability...

4/30/2026 Reading time 5 min.

Entrepreneurship

Global Sustainability Challenge

Award-winning start-up concepts for greater sustainability

Start-up concepts focused on food security and forest protection each won first prize in their respective categories at the...

4/30/2026 Reading time 3 min.

Sustainability

Bees in the city

New approach to the coexistence of wild and honey bees

The rising popularity of urban beekeeping has raised concerns about honeybee well-being and the impact they might have on...

4/29/2026 Reading time 3 min.

Research

Brain–computer interface

The power of the mind

Michael Mehringer is paralyzed from the neck down. Together with a team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, robotics...

4/27/2026 Reading time 5 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

5/2–3

Commemorative initiative DENK MAL AM ORT

Sat 2 – Sun 5/3/2026

Munich

We invite you to an exhibition in memory of members of our university who were persecuted during the Nazi era.

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5/4–8

European Union Week

Mon 4 – Fri 5/8/2026

Munich, Online

Visit the action week and attend the lecture by EU Commissioner Jessika Roswall on May 4.

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5/5

Career Lounge: Engineers in automation and intelligence

Tue 5/5/2026, 5:45 pm – 9:00 pm

Munich

Come to our networking event especially for international master's students in engineering. Register now!

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5/7

Local climate and environment action

Thu 5/7/2026, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Heilbronn

Join the debate of the TUM Europe Dialogue Series, which brings together voices on local climate initiatives.

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Event Overview

Degree programs

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.

TUM in figures

Students

ERC Grants for cutting-edge research

Nobel Prizes

More facts and figures

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.