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MCube Mobilitätscluster auf der IAA Mobility in München (Bild: Viktoriya Zayika / MCube) MCube / Viktoriya Zayika
A man is lying on a tree log and looks into the camera, through a magnifying glass. In the background is a forest.
5/14/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Moderator of "Willi wills wissen" in new discussion format with TUM participation

Forest knowledge with Willi Weitzel

Communicating science to specific target groups and strengthening trust in research: These are the goals of the new initiative "AHA - The Science Communication Hub". Universities such as the Technical University of Munich (TUM), museums, academies and research institutes are involved in the network. One of the first offers for the public is the "AHA Wirtshaus-Wissen" event series with Willi Weitzel and TUM Professor Ferdinand Ludwig on May 18 at the Hofbräukeller on Wiener Platz in Munich.

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Community Public Engagement
Trees on a densely populated street with apartment buildings on a sunny day
4/25/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Citizen Science project “Mein Baum”

Contributing to Sustainable Urban Planning via Smartphone App

Trees reduce heat pollution in cities, provide us with oxygen, and bind climate-damaging Carbon dioxide. However, it is currently unclear which and how many trees grow in urban areas and how much this stock can help with climate adaptation. In collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (HSWT), BUND Naturschutz has launched the citizen science project “Mein Baum” ('My Tree'). With the help of a smartphone app, people can document local trees and play an active role in scientific research.

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Research Sustainability Public Engagement
4/24/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

TUM and Akademie der Bildenden Künste launch a joint project with Haus der Kunst

Astrophysics and art cooperate on dark matter and neutrinos

Astroparticle physics researchers researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and artists from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK) and the Haus der Kunst are working together on a cross-disciplinary project: TUM's Collaborative Research Center SFB 1258 "Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will be working with the photography class at the AdBK over the next few years to artistically reflect on its twelve years of research work. The results are to be presented at the Haus der Kunst in 2028.

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Research Public Engagement
Eva Weig in front of the machine used to evaporate different metallic layers onto the chips via vapor deposition under ultrahigh vacuum.
4/14/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

World Quantum Day on April 14

Current research on quantum technologies

Computers that solve complex problems in the shortest possible time, guaranteed tap-proof networks and intelligent sensors: quantum technologies will radically change the world in the coming decades. At our university and in the Cluster of Excellence Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), scientists are researching various aspects of this future technology.

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Research Quantum Technologies Community Public Engagement
Michael Penk in the laboratory's “brain” with central control cabinet and monitor for all measurement data
4/9/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Energy laboratory for school classes

Renewable energies and technology you can touch

How do you get children and young people interested in renewable energies and the energy transition? A research group at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has come up with a solution: a laboratory for sustainable energy systems. Here, schoolchildren can observe the energy consumption of household appliances in real time. In this way, the team aims to make technology and sustainable energy systems tangible.

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Sustainability Energy Public Engagement
3/14/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

idw award for the TUM Press Office

Best scientific press release of the year

The press office of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has received the award for the best research press release of the year 2024. A jury of experts from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) awarded the prize to TUM's communication on a new ultrasound method for bridge testing. The author of the text, press officer Moritz Müller, accepted the award at a ceremony at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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TUM in the media Community Public Engagement
3/12/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Pioneering educational project by TUM and the Roland Berger Foundation

Supporting socially disadvantaged children with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) will shape the future - but not all children have the same opportunities to learn how to use it. A unique educational project by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Roland Berger Foundation (RBS) addresses precisely this issue: Socially disadvantaged schoolchildren are to develop AI skills at an early age in order to actively shape the digital future.

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President Research Artificial Intelligence Community Public Engagement
Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Volker Wissing takes a selfie with the finalists of the Digital Future Challenge 2025 in the room of the award ceremony in the ministry; in the foreground a standing desk with microphones, in the background on the right a screen with a projected slide of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
2/24/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

TUM teams take first and third place in the Digital Future Challenge 2025

Digitization serving society

“Shaping the digital future” was the motto of the fifth Digital Future Challenge organized by Initiative D21 and the Deloitte Foundation. The student competition focused on innovative approaches for use cases in the areas of “Europe,” “Climate & Environment,” and “Inclusion.” More than 70 groups took part – and with their AI-supported approach to using district heating networks as energy storage systems, the joint TUM and LMU team “Gridnaition” won the final.

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Studies Artificial Intelligence Community Public Engagement
Group photo of the five founders of wahl.chat Sebastian Maier, Anton Wyrowski, Michel Schimpf, Robin Frasch and Roman Mayr, standing in a prestigious room in front of golden columns and paintings on the walls
2/18/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

wahl.chat: A student-created AI tool supports voting decisions

Technology for Democracy

With only a few days to go until the Bundestag elections, it’s high time to determine who to vote for. Which party shares my values? Who pursues which policy goals? But also: How realistic is their implementation, and what consequences would it have? With wahl.chat, five students from TUM, LMU, and the University of Cambridge have created an AI-based online tool that can provide well-founded answers to such complex questions – and thus strengthen democratic participation.

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Studies Artificial Intelligence Community Public Engagement
2/14/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

TUM and Imperial establish a joint research center

Fight against harmful microplastics

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Imperial College London (ICL) are expanding their flagship partnership further. They are founding the “Centre for Health Resilience in a Changing Planet”, focusing on the harmful effects of microplastics and nanoparticles on health. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed in Munich.

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President Research Sustainability Community Public Engagement
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