TUMorrow Factory: Workshop for students at the TUM Campus Garching

9/24/2025
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Pioneering ideas need space to develop - students at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are being given a state-of-the-art workshop, the TUMorrow Factory, at the Garching campus to turn their avant-garde ideas into technical prototypes. The building is being financed for ten million euros thanks to the philanthropic commitment of far-sighted sponsors.

Rendering of the future TUMorrow Factory at the TUM Campus Garching.

In the TUMorrow Factory, student initiatives can realize forward-looking ideas in cross-school collaboration, hone their system-integrative competencies and team skills and build complex technical prototypes to compete in international student competitions.

This is what the TUMorrwo Factory will look like inside.

The heart of the building is the large workshop spanned by a crane runway. This is complemented by workshops, rooms for group work and lecture rooms, which will provide student pioneers with development opportunities that are unique in Germany.

The 60 meter long and almost 20 meter wide building will be made predominantly of wood and will meet the zero-energy standard: A photovoltaic system on the roof will generate more electricity than the building consumes. The architect is Prof. Florian Nagler from the TUM Chair of Design and Construction.

Thanks for social commitment

TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann thanked the generous supporters of the construction project: "With their enthusiasm for technical progress, their hearts in the right place and their visionary foresight for the promotion of young talent, honorary senators of TUM, companies and the Karl Max von Bauernfein Association have made this wonderful project for the future possible. With this investment in the future, we are jointly creating a new engine of our TUM talent strategy - a collision space that promotes the collaboration of pioneering student minds and collective creativity in student teams across disciplinary boundaries, imparts the increasingly important skills for system integration, and accelerates the transfer of bold ideas into avant-garde technologies as a prototype workshop."

Florian Schörghuber, CEO of the Schörghuber Group and member of the Stefan Schörghuber Foundation Board, said on behalf of all sponsors: "Education makes the difference: in the competitiveness of the German economy - and thus in securing prosperity and freedom in our country. We sponsors are delighted to be involved in the development of the TUMorrow Factory, because we are convinced that education is most successful when the state and society, universities and companies work together to lay the foundations for its delivery. On behalf of my family, I can say that we are grateful to be able to do what was always important to my father, namely to have a positive impact on society beyond our responsibility for our company."

Mercedes Plaza Reino from the student initiative HORZYN emphasizes: "For us students, the TUMorrow Factory is much more than just a building: it is a platform where initiatives can come together, exchange ideas and implement our projects together. Until now, a lack of space was often the first and biggest hurdle for student initiatives. The TUMorrow Factory opens up new opportunities to work on high-tech projects beyond traditional teaching, to learn from each other and to have fun together."

Guests at the groundbreaking ceremony for the TUMorrow Factory at the TUM Campus Garching.

The sponsors

Together, the sponsors are providing a total of ten million euros for the project, half of which is being provided by the Schörghuber Group alone. Here is a list of all supporters of the TUMorrow Factory:

Schörghuber Group, represented by Florian Schörghuber, CEO and member of the Stefan Schörghuber Foundation Board
Diehl Group, represented by Markus Diehl, TUM Alumnus Mechanical Engineering and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Diehl Group
Karl Max von Bauernfeind-Verein, named after the founding director of today's TUM
TUM Honorary Senator Renate Schmucker and TUM Honorary Senator Prof. Robert H. Schmucker, TUM Alumnus Aerospace Engineering, Professor of Space Technology and founder of the student initiative WARR - Scientific Working Group for Rocketry and Space Flight
TUM Honorary Senator Friedrich N. Schwarz, TUM Alumnus Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
TUM Honorary Senator Prof. Rudolf Schwarz, TUM Alumnus Civil Engineering and CEO of IABG GmbH