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A group of students taking part in a course in a TUM lecture hall. Astrid Eckert / TUM
Blick über den Campus Heilbronn.
4/14/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Podcast "We Are TUM"

A visit to the Campus Heilbronn

In this episode we report from the TUM Campus Heilbronn, which has developed rapidly over the past six years: More than 1,000 students from all over the world, close ties to companies, and exciting topics related to AI, management, and digitalization.We talk to those who are helping to shape the location-from the students' perspective to strategic visions for the coming years.

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Studies Research Entrepreneurship Community
Boris Paal, Professor of Law and Regulation of the Digital Transformation
4/10/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

NewIn: Boris Paal

Shaping technology development with legal frameworks

Boris Paal is a legal expert at a university without a law department or degree program in law. In the latest issue of NewIn, he explains why this is exactly the right place for his research and teaching on IT and data law and how legal science is becoming a force in shaping innovation.

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Studies Research Artificial Intelligence Community
Das TUM Boring Team freut sich über den erfolgreichen Wettkampf und präsentiert den Bohrkopf
4/7/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Third victory for tunnel boring team

TUM Boring wins tunnel boring competition and sets new record

Third participation in the competition, third victory: the student tunnel boring team TUM Boring wins again at the international "Not-A-Boring Competition" in the USA. During the seven-day competition, the team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) set a new length record of 22.5 meters and ultimately took the overall victory.

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President Studies Campus news Mobility
Group photo of the winners of the Prize for Excellence in Teaching awarded by the Free State of Bavaria and TUM’s Certificates of Honor for Excellence in Teaching.
4/3/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Antonius Schneider and Friedrich Esch receive Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Outstanding TUM educators honored

Students need one thing above all else: dedicated instructors who inspire them to grow – both academically and personally. Six TUM members have taken particularly innovative approaches to achieve this goal. In recognition of their efforts, they have received a prestigious honor: the Prize for Excellence in Teaching awarded by the Free State of Bavaria and TUM’s Certificates of Honor for Excellence in Teaching.

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Teaching Studies Community
NewIn: Stephan Krusche
3/27/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

NewIn: Stephan Krusche

AI-supported studying

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way students learn. In this issue of NewIn we meet Prof. Stephan Krusche. He is developing a learning platform with an integrated AI chatbot that not only provides students with solutions, but also offers context-specific help.

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Studies Research Artificial Intelligence Community
3/18/2025
Reading time: 6 Min.

TUM in Singapore

Microalgae for the megacity

TUM’s research and teaching is contributing to a sustainable future for the city state of Singapore. A visit on site.

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TUM Magazine Studies Research
Researchers in a chemistry lab
3/12/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

QS World University Rankings by Subject

TUM among the top 20 worldwide in natural sciences and engineering

In the renowned QS World University Rankings by Subject, TUM is among the top 20 universities in the world for the first time in both natural sciences (18th place) and engineering & technology (19th place). In the rankings for six individual subjects, it ranks in the top 25. In six other subjects it places among the top 50 universities.

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TUM in Rankings Studies Research Community
Three students at an improvised table made of two plastic containers, in the background partitions with a multitude of written-on colored sticky notes.
3/10/2025

Wanted: Innovative projects for study and teaching

The TUM Future Learning Initiative 2025 starts

Dynamic, competence-oriented, and at the cutting edge – the teaching of the future is being shaped at TUM. Who knows better what it takes than our students, teaching staff, and alumns. The TUM Future Learning Initiative aims to support their projects and implement their ideas. The Freunde der TUM – Association of Alumni and Friends is providing a total of 20,000 euros for this purpose. Proposals can be submitted until 31 May.

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Teaching Studies Campus news Community
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
Prof. Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann
2/20/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

NewIn: Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann

In search of molecular switches in the immune system

A decades-long search culminated in 2013 with the discovery of cGAS – a molecular switch that plays a key role in the human immune system. Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann was a doctoral student with the team that achieved this breakthrough. Now a professor at TUM, she is certain that there are more switches of this kind. She only has to prove it.

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