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Participants talk at the Space Station Design Workshop
9/2/2024
Reading time: 4 Min.

Space Station Design Workshop 2024

How to live on the Moon in 2050?

The Moon is dusty and bare. Our beloved home planet Earth is around 360,000 km away, the gravitational force is only one-sixth of the Earth's gravity, and there is an absolute absence of air. How do you colonize and cultivate such an environment? 42 talented students and young professionals from 21 countries spent a week tackling this challenge at the Space Station Design Workshop (SSDW) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) at the Ottobrunn Space Campus.

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Ilyasse Taame outside the Sasso San Gottardo in a spacesuit. Extravehicular activities were part of the student space simulation Asclepios IV.
8/28/2024
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Asclepios IV astronaut program

Student space mission underground

What does it feel like to be an astronaut, piloting a lunar rover, moving around in a bulky spacesuit and conducting scientific experiments? Ilyasse Taame joined five students from all over the world to find out: The student crew spent two weeks on a lunar mission. Not in space, however, but deep inside the Gotthard massif range in the Swiss Alps.

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Studies Campus news Community
8/26/2024
Reading time: 3 Min.

Working in science even without a degree

TUM offers numerous opportunities for vocational training

At the Technical University of Munich (TUM), research and teaching are conducted at a world-class level. But this requires more than just professors and academic staff. A large number of highly qualified colleagues in training professions ensure that the technology works, the infrastructure functions, and the administration runs smoothly. "They are the backbone of our university's operations," emphasizes TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann.

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Sarah Billington, UPS Foundation Professor and Senior Fellow at Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, on TUM Sustainability Day 2024
8/22/2024
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Global discourse series “One Topic, One Loop“: Sarah Billington

Sustainability and inclusivity must go hand in hand

Sarah Billington is the fourth author in our global discourse series “One Topic, One Loop”: She is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and was keynote speaker at the TUM Sustainability Day 2024. She believes that for sustainability activities to be successful, it is essential to have an open-minded faculty and administration.

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Research Sustainability Community
Portrait of Oleksandra Poquet
8/20/2024
Reading time: 1 Min.

NewIn: Oleksandra Poquet

Using data to learn better

New technologies have long since made their way into higher education and continuing education. Oleksandra Poquet, Professor of Learning Analytics, explores how learner data can be used to keep developing people throughout their lives. We catch up with her and her research in this episode of "NewIn".

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Clemens Wickler and Nils Ehlers with the silver medal.
8/12/2024
Reading time: 2 Min.

Beach volleyball training with analytics tools

Olympic medal with TUM software

Silver in Paris: Beach volleyball players Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler played an outstanding Olympic tournament and were only beaten in the final by the Swedish world number one. The Chair of Performance Analysis and Sports Informatics played an important role in their success. The German beach volleyball teams used digital tools developed at TUM both for training and for analyzing their opponents.

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Research Community
TUM-Studentin Lucia Dörffel tritt in Paris im Combined-Wettbewerb an, der Speedklettern und Bouldern vereint.
7/31/2024
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Interview with Lucia Dörffel

TUM student competes in Olympic sport climbing

Lucia Dörffel is the first female German sport climber ever to qualify for the Olympic Games. On August 6, the sports student from TUM has her first competition in Paris. We spoke to her shortly beforehand.

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TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann (left) and NTU President Prof. Ho Teck Hua agree on the flagship partnership in Singapore.
7/24/2024
Reading time: 2 Min.

Global network is growing

TUM and NTU Singapore sign flagship partnership

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have set up a flagship partnership. The agreement strengthens TUM's cooperation with NTU and its global network in Southeast Asia.

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Bild von Helge Stein
7/22/2024
Reading time: 2 Min.

NewIn: Helge Stein

"Radically accelerate the way we do research"

In this episode of NewIn, we meet Prof. Helge Stein. He develops new materials for catalysis and rechargeable batteries, and aims to connect and accelerate research in the lab using machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics.

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Teaching Studies Research Sustainability Artificial Intelligence Community
Christine Nellemann, Dean of Sustainability at the Technical University of Denmark, photographed in a wooded area
7/18/2024
Reading time: 4 Min.

Global discourse series “One Topic, One Loop“: Christine Nellemann

Sustainability is about more than CO2 reduction

The third author in our global “One Topic One Loop” series is Christine Nellemann, Dean for Sustainability, Diversity and International Cooperation at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). In her contribution, she discusses how a university's academic and infrastructural activities can be jointly geared towards greater sustainability.

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