ogether with partners from the EuroTech Universities Alliance and beyond,the Technical University of Munich(TUM)endeavours to establish aEuropean engineering degree combining technical and social sciences.This is the subject of the proposal the new“EuroTech Engineer Network”submitted yesterday in response to the Erasmus+pilot call for“European Universities”.Driven by the EuroTech Universities Alliance,the“EuroTech Engineer Network”consists of Technical University of Denmark,École Polytechnique,the Technion,Eindhoven University of Technology,Technical University of Munich,as well as Czech Technical University in Prague and Tallinn University of Technology.The vision of this new network is to establish the first European curriculum for an engineering degree and become the leading European ecosystem for Education in Science and Technology.The ambition is to“future proof”study programmes in science and technology by anchoring the knowledge triangle in European values.Combining disciplinary expertise with competencies in social sciences and humanities will shape societally aware talent capable of taking adequate and sustainable decisions and accompanying and moderating technology-driven transformation processes. 查看详细>>

The president of Imperial College London(ICL),Prof.Alice Gast,and Prof.Wolfgang A.Herrmann,President of the Technical University of Munich(TUM),have addressed the possible effects of aBrexit on the European research and higher education landscape in acommentary in the Financial Times.In October 2018,ICL and TUM announced their new"flagship partnership",in which two of Europe‘s leading technical universities combine their complementary strengths in high technologies. 查看详细>>

The US company Facebook is supporting the efforts of the Technical University of Munich(TUM)to investigate the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence with 6.5 million euros.Facebook’s support for the new TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence was confirmed to Vice President Prof.Thomas Hofmann and Project Coordinator Prof.Christoph Lütge(Chair of Business Ethics)at the"Digital-Life Design"conference in Munich by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.Artificial intelligence(AI)opens up new functional and application horizons for technical systems through digital networking.In order to ensure the cultural and social anchoring of these partly rapidly advancing developments,TUM has launched an extensive expansion program for the fields of humanities and social sciences.Within this strategic direction,research and teaching will be structured in the context of"Human-Centered Engineering",which will also involve disciplines such as philosophy,ethics,sociology and political science. 查看详细>>

Founding start-ups is ideally supported at the Technical University of Munich(TUM),according to the results of the German"Start-up Radar".For the third time in arow TUM has been ranked number one among major German universities.Approximately 70 companies are founded here each year."How can your idea become aproduct that you yourself can bring to the market?"The students at TUM are repeatedly asked this question.TUM also encourages its scientists to turn their research results into innovations which create value for society.Prizes such as the Presidential Entrepreneurship Award and the IdeAward motivate them by highlighting successful role models and highly promising ideas for entrepreneurship.The"Start-up Radar"("Gründungsradar"),composed by the Stifterverband for German Science,which is the German business community‘s innovation agency,and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation,investigates how well universities sensitize their associates to the possibilities of founding companies and how well the topic is institutionally anchored.The degree of support the university provides for start-ups and the number of companies actually founded are further indicators. 查看详细>>

The Technical University of Munich(TUM)has launched an Africa initiative.In addition to collaboration in individual projects,in the future long-term partnerships in the key areas teaching,research and entrepreneurship will be actively promoted,with the efforts coordinated at TUM in across-faculty Africa network.The objective is to work together with partners on location using new methods and adapted technologies to set examples in terms of promoting the sustainable development of the continent.One initial focus area is Ghana,where TUM is actively involved in the university KNUST.Shortly before the EU-Africa summit,TUM presented its initiative to the public at the inaugural symposium"Sustainable Development in Africa".Countries such as Ghana,Kenya,Senegal,Ethiopia and Tanzania are among the world‘s fastest growing national economies.According to estimates by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development,by 2035 Africa will be home to the world‘s largest potential workforce.This means that strong African educational,research and innovation systems will play adecisive role in Africa‘s global development."As aleading Technical University we bear aresponsibility for the development needs of the African continent.It represents an enormous potential,still frequently underestimated,for which we want to prepare the young academic generation,"says TUM President Prof.Wolfgang A.Herrmann,adding,"The TUM brand stands globally for excellent research and teaching and for afertile entrepreneurial ecosystem which facilitates the transfer of technological innovations to society.And these are precisely the strategic priorities we have to address in order to leverage the great potential of Africa and of the young people there." 查看详细>>

New strong partner for the EuroTech Universities Alliance.Israel‘s Technion joins EuroTech.The EuroTech Universities sign the accession of Technion,represented by Vice-President Prof.Wayne Kaplan(3rd from right).(Image:I.Odenthal/TUM)08.11.2018,Campus news Technion,Israel Institute of Technology,will join the EuroTech Universities Alliance as of January 1,2019.The announcement follows the accession of France’sÉcole Polytechnique to the Alliance in June 2018.This step... 查看详细>>

Technical University Munich(TUM)and Imperial College London(ICL)will be strategic partners in research,teaching and technology transfer.The partnership unites two of Europe‘s leading technical universities with their complementary strengths in high-tech fields such as Artificial Intelligence,robotics,digital medicine,bioengineering,aviation and astronautics.The partners also regard their agreement as ajoint commitment to worldwide collaborations.Alice Gast,President of ICL,and TUM President Wolfgang A.Herrmann finalized the"Flagship partnership"yesterday in London;the partnership builds on existing collaboration,in particular in the areas of information sciences and medicine."In terms of their completely matching research portfolios,TUM and ICL are made for one another,"commented Wolfgang A.Herrmann at the signing of the agreement.Alice Gast commented:"As aglobal university Imperial College is very pleased to strengthen its international network with TUM as an outstanding partner."Today the two universities already both hold leading positions in the future-oriented field of Artificial Intelligence.The two entrepreneurially oriented universities see particular potential in the effective transfer of innovation to the economy.ICL and TUM are both in the vanguard of the„Europe’s Most Innovative Universities“ranking,conducted by the British news agency Reuters.Thus for example TUM research has spun off approximately 1,000 companies since 1990,currently providing more than 15,000 jobs and with strong and ongoing support from the TUM affiliated institute UnernehmerTUM–Center for Innovation and Business Creation at TU Munich.Eight of these companies are also listed on the stock exchange.Celonis(founded in 2011)has achieved"Unicorn"status with amarket valuation of over one billion US dollars.TUM was founded in 1868,ICL was founded in 1907,both in the age of the"first Industrial Revolution". 查看详细>>

The Technical University of Munich(TUM)has got off to another successful start in the extremely competitive Excellence Initiative organized by Germany’s government and federal states.Over the next seven years,four research clusters run by TUM and its cooperation partners will each receive up to 70 million euros in funding.The clusters will focus on research into energy conversion,quantum technology,the origin of the universe and neurological diseases.TUM is now also preparing to submit its application for the next round of funding as aUniversity of Excellence.It is the only technical university in Germany to have held this title consecutively since 2006.“TUM,in cooperation with its strong partners,has confirmed its leading role in research and science in Germany.The decision underlines the quality of our research program.Excellent scientists will use the funding to establish important international hubs addressing highly relevant research topics.We will thus be giving added momentum to the strong impetus which the Excellence Initiative has already brought to the research landscape in Germany,”says Prof.Wolfgang A.Herrmann,President of TUM.“Successful collaboration between different disciplines and multiple partner institutions in TUM’s Clusters of Excellence over the past twelve years has shone the spotlight on Munich as aleading international hotbed of science.The particularly close partnership between Munich’s two universities,the Max Planck Institutes and Helmholtz Zentrum München has proved yet again that we are on the right strategic path,with each institute contributing its specific research strengths,”says Herrmann.After counting the votes cast by international expert committees,the selection committee approved the following applications from Munich: 查看详细>>

Brain trauma caused by injury to the head can have grave consequences.Diagnosis is usually made on the basis of aCT scan.Now,a new blood test can be used to rule out severe injury in the first place.An international research team,including scientists from the Technical University of Munich(TUM),have presented their findings in Lancet Neurology.Accidents that cause injury to the head often result in traumatic brain injury.Such injuries can be relatively harmless,for example in the case of aconcussion.In other cases,where large volumes of blood exert pressure on the brain,they can be life-threatening and require immediate surgery.Doctors often must decide,after an accident,whether adetailed examination by CT scan is needed.A new blood test could facilitate this decision.The method was developed and tested by an international team that includes Prof.Peter Biberthaler,Director of the Department of Trauma Surgery at university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar of the TUM,who played akey role as lead author.“Using this method,we tested blood for the presence of two biomarkers,the proteins UCH-L1 and GFAP,”Peter Biberthaler explains."Depending on their levels in the blood,we were able to predict whether hemorrhaging in the brain had occurred."Dr.Viktoria Bogner-Flatz of the General,Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery Unit of the Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich was also involved in the study and the publication. 查看详细>>

The Technical University of Munich(TUM)receives special recognition for excellent research in the engineering sciences:The European Research Council(ERC)has awarded future funding to three projects from the TUM Department of Informatics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with ERC Starting Grants.The research projects focus on image processing,data security and cyber-physical systems.Each year the European Research Council supports future-oriented research projects with substantial ERC Grants,awarded in various categories.Starting Grants are intended for early-career scientists and are endowed with as much as€1.5 million.The latest awards bring the total number of ERC grants received by TUM to 93. 查看详细>>