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Tomorrow on Thursday 21 March, the team Africast will meet a delegation from the KNUST university in Ghana. The visit of the delegation is part of the TUM Africa strategy. [read more]

The basic structure of our website has been created. Next week, our alpha test will take place with different test subjects. We want to get feedback on our application through a "thinking aloud": Our test subjects use the website, while they voice their thoughts aloud and give us important information on improvement opportunities. We are very excited about the results! [read more]

Over the weekend amidst the snow covered Bad Tölz, we presented our initial findings and draft research questions. We defined our core problem - Children have a lack of understanding and knowledge about scientific thinking. We had very productive sessions which kept us motivated for the next phase. [read more]

We have now found a student assistant who will program our app/website! We are looking forward to the collaboration and are curious about the result. At the same time, we are developing a concept for the test phase of the application and will contact potential test persons in the coming weeks. [read more]

The interviews with our first target group - politicians - are almost finished. We are still in the process of receiving feedback and ideas via a questionnaire from our second target group, students. Using these insights, we are developing a concrete concept for an online platform/application to facilitate the exchange between local politicians and young scientists. We are urgently looking for a… [read more]

Team SciCom has begun conducting interviews. Over the last few weeks, we met with politicians from the Green party and SPD as well as with an NGO. They gave us valuable insights into the political advisory process and its perceived deficits. Our next interview will be with a scientist from TUM. We look forward to gaining a fuller picture of the advisory process and are motivated to implement a… [read more]

Das seit 2015 bestehende Gasthörerprogramm für Geflüchtete an der TUM geht mittlerweile in das sechste Semester. Erneut können Geflüchtete im Laufe des Semesters Einblicke in das akademische Umfeld erhalte, Vorlesungen ihrer Wahl und Sprachkurse belegen sowie ihre Affinität zu einem konkreten Studiengang prüfen. Dabei werden sie von Ehrenamtlichen aus dem Netzwerk der TUM als Buddy begleitet.… [read more]

Die Volkswagen Stiftung und TU9, der Verband der neun führenden Technischen Universitäten in Deutschland, veranstalten am 9. und 10. Februar 2018 im Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover das Symposium „Geisteswissenschaften in Technischen Universitäten“ und bieten interessierten Studierenden und Mitarbeiter*innen Reisestipendien an. [read more]