One and a half year after the outbreak of war, Hekmat Dabbas left his homeland Syria. First, he studied in the Czech Republic before he came to the Technical University of Munich a year ago. He is a student of Transportation Systems and was granted a “Deutschlandstipendium”. In an interview with TUMstudinews reporter Sabrina Czechofsky, he talks about his time in Syria, his new life in Munich and his goals for after graduation.

About to get started: five young people at the beginning of their university life. They leave their long-time friends and their family behind and take a step towards self-dependence. In 18 episodes, the documentary series “Hey Uni” shows how their lives change completely. The TUM students Veronica Kiriak and Elena Gernhardt are involved too.

The last time Nora Pohle went on a longer holiday was in summer 2014. Then, the 22-year-old was elected as a student representative in the TUM’s Senate. Since then, she has been busy balancing her studies, university politics and private life.

Technical environmental protection, health, consumer- and climate protection: Since 1985, various speakers have been holding lectures in the scope of the TUM’s lecture series on environmental topics – the “Ringvorlesung Umwelt”. Now, it’s time to celebrate the 30th anniversary. TUM student Johann Hönes, who is responsible for organizing the lecture series, gives a summary in his interview for TUMstudinews.

Akram Abdellatif (27) wants to go into space – and the TUM-graduate student from Egypt has to go through quite a lot in order to do so. With success: He was accepted for the research project “PoSSUM”, which is sponsored by NASA. The first training starts this week.

Do you already know the half BMW? Do you know what the “Rang” is? …and all the places on campus where you can get something to eat? These and other questions will be answered by the interactive campus-tour, which allows you to explore the TUM’s three main sites. Just download it to smart phone or tablet PC – for free – and off you go.

Do you travel a lot? Do you often work at your PC one day and use your tablet and smartphone while traveling the next day? Do you often work on something with colleagues outside TUM – and do you want to get away from commercial cloud providers such as Dropbox etc.? If so, use the new service “Sync+Share”.

Did you buy a new software and need a quick overview of how it works? Do you want to learn how to present yourself better? No problem with video2brain.

In winter semester 2015/16, the “Virtual University of Bavaria” will offer 400 free courses.

The new event calendar “Career o`Clock” is available online.