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Vice President Prof. Gerhard Kramer presents the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award to Flora Geske, founder of the start-up SUMM AI.
6/27/2025
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Entrepreneurship Day brings together Munich ecosystem

Presidential Award goes to AI start-up

For the development of an AI tool that translates complex texts into plain language, the start-up SUMM AI has received the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award. The other finalists for this year’s award were KEWAZO, with a robot for the construction industry, and Phlair, with a new technology for CO2 capture.

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6/26/2025
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TUM spin-off worth over a billion dollars

Isar Aerospace becomes a unicorn

Isar Aerospace, a space company spun off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has achieved a company valuation of over a billion dollars and thus unicorn status. This brings the number of TUM unicorns to 22. Isar Aerospace has developed and built its own commercial rocket technology and will transport small and medium-sized satellites into space in the future. The start-up, founded by three graduates, received intensive support from TUM.

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6/19/2025
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QS World University Rankings sees TUM as the best university in the EU

TUM rises to number 22 worldwide

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has again moved up in the QS World University Rankings and now holds the 22nd position worldwide. This marks the first time TUM has reached the top 25 in one of the three most prestigious international university rankings. In addition, QS now lists TUM as the best university in the European Union.

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6/17/2025
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Bavarian Science Minister Blume and TUM President Hofmann visit Singapore

TUM Asia to host new “Bavarian University and Innovation Center Asia-Pacific”

TUM Asia, the overseas campus of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Singapore, will serve as the home of the newly established “Bavarian University and Innovation Center Asia-Pacific” (BayAP). The initiative was officially inaugurated by Bavaria’s Science Minister Markus Blume and TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann at the university's new office space on the premises of TUM’s flagship partner, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

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6/2/2025
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Deutsches Museum continues its successful development under the leadership of a TUM professor

Michael Decker is the new Director General

The Deutsches Museum in Munich will be headed by Michael Decker as Director General in the future. Like his predecessor, Wolfgang M. Heckl, Decker is also a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). On Monday, he was introduced to his new position by Bavaria's Minister of Science, Markus Blume, TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsches Museum, Axel Cronauer.

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5/22/2025
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Natural sciences, medicine, and social sciences are at the forefront

TUM to receive funding for seven Clusters of Excellence

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has once again made a successful start to the highly competitive Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments: In the future, seven Clusters of Excellence at TUM and its cooperation partners will be funded, as announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG). That is three more than before.

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5/22/2025
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Fostering start-ups in the field of security and defense

TUM Venture Labs and Hensoldt enter into a strategic partnership

TUM Venture Labs and sensor specialist Hensoldt will jointly promote start-ups focusing on security and defense in the future. The partnership aims to intensify the exchange between research and industry and to open up potential for future investments in promising deep tech start-ups. To this end, Hensoldt will become a platinum partner of TUM Venture Labs and assume a central role in the area of defense in the emerging technology ecosystem.

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Prof. Reinhold Mayer, chairman of the foundation, TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, dean Prof. Christoph Kaserer and Prof. Joachim Weber, member of the foundation's advisory board, after signing the agreement.
5/12/2025
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Péter Horváth Foundation strengthens TUM Campus Heilbronn

New endowed professorship for controlling and AI

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is establishing a new professorship for controlling and AI with the support of the Péter Horváth Foundation. The foundation will fund research and teaching with three million euros. The professorship will be established at the TUM Campus Heilbronn, which is doing research on the digital transformation of the corporate world.

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5/12/2025
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The start-up ecosystem at TUM is growing

Extended partnership between TUM Venture Labs and Rohde & Schwarz

The ecosystem for start-ups in the field of security, defense, and resilience technologies at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) continues to grow. TUM Venture Labs and the technology group Rohde & Schwarz are expanding their long-standing partnership to include this field. The aim is to jointly identify and promote promising start-ups. Rohde & Schwarz will support the technology hub as an industry and technology partner with expertise and know-how.

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Health Minister Judith Gerlach and TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann visit the TUM Venture Lab Healthcare.
5/9/2025
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Support for innovation and start-ups

Health Minister Gerlach visits TUM Venture Lab Healthcare

The Bavarian Minister of Health, Judith Gerlach, has visited the new laboratory facilities at the TUM Venture Lab Healthcare. The Minister handed over a funding grant of 500,000 euros for the SMART HEALTH program, which promotes technology transfer. The TUM Venture Lab Healthcare supports start-ups that put cutting-edge research findings in the fields of digital health, medical technology and life sciences into practice.

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