Combining excellent research with excellent teaching – that is the aspiration of TUM. Teaching at our university is carried out according to the highest didactic and technical standards, oriented towards learning objectives and competency. In this way, students are introduced to scientific thinking and research in the best possible way.
Here you will find an overview of the didactic principles on which teaching at TUM is based, as well as assistance in designing courses and examinations.
At TUM, there are a variety of forums and competitions for innovative teaching formats, outstanding didactic concepts and the exchange on the latest developments.
At TUM, there are a number of regular events on the culture of teaching and learning that provide impetus for lecturing and space for discussion and exchange.
The goal of quality management is to design, establish and further develop attractive, challenging and internationally competitive degree programs.
Whether didactics, e-learning or evaluation – TUM offers a wide range of consulting and training services on all topics related to studying and teaching.
The Internationalization Language Services coordinates translations into English as well as (copy) editing, and provides the dict.tum terminology database.
Whether handouts on teaching and examinations, documents on accreditation or information on evaluation processes – here you will find all downloads related to studying and teaching.
Here you will find your contact persons at TUM Center for Study and Teaching – Qualitätsmanagement.
Here you will find your contact persons at ProLehre | Media und Didactics.
Best practices from teaching, current calls for proposals, surveys and many other topics can also be found in the blog “Studium und Lehre”.
Prof. Dr. med. Tilo Biedermann and Dr. Nada Sissouno have been awarded the Prize for Excellence in Teaching at public universities in Bavaria. Bavarian Minister of Science and the Arts Bernd Sibler honored the physician and the mathematician at the suggestion of the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Jürgen Richter-Gebert, Professor of Geometry and Visualization, has received the most prestigious award for scientific communication – the Communicator Award 2021, bestowed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. This honor recognizes the TUM researcher’s many years of passionate work dedicated to sharing his love of mathematics with students, exhibition visitors and app users.
Mental health, online labs and a virtual forest: the field of contributions that have already been implemented through the ideas competition “Studienbezogene Verstärkung der Exzellenzstrategie” (study-related reinforcement of the excellence strategy) is wide. Now the next round starts, seeking concepts for digital and project-based forms of teaching, learning and examining.
The TUM Global Week from 5 to 9 July, 2021, is an important stimulus for international projects and collaborations. All members of the TUM family are invited to discuss global challenges in numerous information and networking events, to clarify practical questions about stays abroad, and to learn about new offers for international exchange.
How can we make our degree programs interdisciplinary? What new topics can we take up? In short: How can we become even better? These are the central questions of the student survey at TUM. Every two years, the university calls on its students to describe their own experiences and pass on their opinions.