TUM Global News

Mountains of plastic waste on Thailand's beaches, harvest collapses in India due to climate change, inadequate power supply in rural areas of the Global South: Developing countries have a particularly hard time dealing with social problems. As part… [read more]

July in Munich is all about great and partly free open-air events. Concert events, such as Klassik am Odeonsplatz and Opera for All, as well as film and theater screenings, attract visitors to the outdoors. Add to this our Cultural Program offer – a… [read more]

The more carbon dioxide we release into the air, the greater the strain on the earth's green lungs. Particularly challenged here are the tropical rainforests. Researchers at TUM have been taking a closer look at the rainforest in Brazil for eight… [read more]

Lighter aircraft, Industry 4.0, future transportation systems: The pace of new technologies is accelerating - but where will the future take us? TUM Asia's virtual summer school 2021, which will take place from July 26 to August 2, 2021, will focus… [read more]

On May 22, the regional elimination final for Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela to participate in the Falling Walls Lab 2021 took place. This decision will determine the candidate with the most groundbreaking idea in terms of innovation, who… [read more]

Join the Global Challenge Lab – where you will collaborate with students and alumni from around the world on ideas for the UN Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Wellbeing. The Global Challenge Lab is a brand new virtual entrepreneurship… [read more]

In the realm of this year’s EuroTech Presidents’ Meeting on June 2, the outgoing and incoming EuroTech presidents, Thomas F. Hofmann from Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Martin Vetterli from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),… [read more]

After more than a year of the Covid-19 pandemic and alleged reduction of international exchange, the redesigned, virtual TUM Global Week 2021 from July 5 to 9, 2021, puts a strong emphasis on TUM's internationalization. More extensive than ever, the… [read more]

On May 12, TUM Senior Vice President Prof. Juliane Winkelmann and Prof. Lou Yongqi, Vice President of Tongji University in Shanghai, held a conference via Zoom and renewed the long-term partnership between the two universities. On this occasion,… [read more]

The newsletter for international scientists at TUM provides monthly information about events organized by the Welcome Services as well as interesting events in Munich and the surrounding area. Finally, events in public institutions and together with… [read more]