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MCube Mobilitätscluster auf der IAA Mobility in München (Bild: Viktoriya Zayika / MCube) MCube / Viktoriya Zayika
9/24/2025
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Prototype workshop for students at the TUM Campus Garching

TUMorrow Factory creates space for big ideas

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.

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Teilnehmende des IAA Roundtable „Modellregionen für Autonomes Fahren im ÖPNV“ im Hof der Staatskanzlei vor autonom fahrenden Fahrzeugen
9/10/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

IAA Roundtable: MCube launches initiative for autonomous mobility

Model regions for autonomous driving in public transport and freight transport decided

On the initiative of the research community, Germany's transport industry and politicians are committed to promoting autonomous driving in public transport and freight transport. MCube, the “Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions” led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Digital Hub Mobility of UnternehmerTUM, and the “Mobile Future Munich” (MZM) alliance have jointly executed a letter of intent to this effect.

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8/11/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

Quantum phenomena at the Deutsches Museum

Between waves and particles

Particles that simultaneously change their state despite vast distances between them? Electrons with the properties of both waves and particles? Quantum phenomena are often dramatically different from anything we can experience and imagine. The exhibition “Light and Matter” by the Cluster of Excellence MCQST aims to make them understandable for young people.

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Prof. Annette Diefenthaler, Executive Director of the Munich Design Institute, and President Prof. Thomas Hofmann.
7/31/2025
Reading time: 9 Min.

Interview with President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and Prof. Annette Diefenthaler

"Making innovations trustworthy and socially acceptable"

As an Integrative Research Institute, the Munich Design Institute (MDI) brings together various academic disciplines and incorporates perspectives from the public through design and design research. In this interview, President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and Prof. Annette Diefenthaler, founding director of the MDI, discuss what design can achieve in the context of rapid social change and how society-centered research and innovation can succeed.

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Beim Kunstarealfest 2025 ist die Licht- und Klanginstallation "Sonic Revolutions / Heaven's Caroussel" des Künstlers Tim Otto Roth vor der Alten Pinakothek zu sehen. Die Installation ist in Kooperation des TUM Center for Culture and Arts und der Professur für Audio-Signalverarbeitung an der TUM (Prof. Seeber) entstanden.
7/10/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

Looking back on the Kunstareal Festival 2025

Science and arts in motion at the Kunstareal

TUM is located right in the heart of Munich's Kunstareal, one of Europe's most important arts and culture destinations. The 2025 edition of the Kunstareal Festival thus saw TUM researchers, students and staff join in with creative ideas and projects, making science, technology and social questions feel tangible in a new way.

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Participants taking part in a soundwalk at one of the listening stations
6/25/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Participatory Research

Exploring the urban soundscape

Take a walk through the city and contribute to research at the same time: Residents of Munich now have the opportunity to do just that through guided soundwalks in the neighborhoods of Au, Neuperlach, and Harlaching. CitySoundscapes, a joint project by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), LMU Munich, and other partners, is looking for curious citizens willing to explore their city in a new way — and help lay the groundwork for concrete ways to improve life in the city.

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Research Sustainability Public Engagement
6/20/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

Prof. Friedrich Simmel on the new BioSysteM Cluster of Excellence

"Thinking of biology as technology"

The BioSysteM Cluster of Excellence aims to develop self-organizing molecular and cellular systems with programmable, life-like properties. The focus ranges from biomolecular machines for biosynthesis and intelligent materials to biomedical microrobots and pattern-based therapeutics to the control of cell differentiation and organ formation as the basis for a new generation of revolutionary applications in biomedicine. Spokesperson Prof. Friedrich Simmel explains in an interview why the involvement of society is crucial in this context.

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Research Community Public Engagement
6/2/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

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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Portrait photo of Emmanuel Adjei, in the background an illuminated bicycle
6/2/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

TUM alumnus embarks on charity ride from Munich to Accra

10,000 kilometers to promote educational equity

Emmanuel Adjei, a sports scientist at the TUM University Hospital, is cycling from Munich to Accra – 10,000 kilometers, 150 days, 15 countries. With his campaign “Bike2MyRoots,” he is aiming to raise funds for an educational NGO. His goal: to inspire children in Africa, improve access to education, and promote inclusion and equal opportunities. He sets off on 7 June.

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Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer
5/26/2025
Reading time: 7 Min.

New Cluster of Excellence TransforM

“Studying socio-technical shocks in real time”

The Cluster of Excellence TransforM aims to find new ways of conducting research into how transformative technologies shape societal change. In this interview, TransforM spokesperson Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer explains why it is essential for social and engineering sciences to face highly speculative questions, discusses how the public can be involved, and how a cluster of this kind could have enabled a different response to the covid pandemic.

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