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Scholarship Program

Developing your own student research project, engaging with socially relevant topics, working with people from a wide range of disciplines, and developing yourself personally. These are just a few keywords that describe what the TUM: Junge Akademie scholarship program - TUMJA for short - is all about.

The program is not a classic scholarship with financial support for individual students. Instead, it aims to encourage students interested in science and research at a very early stage to pursue their own research projects. Working in interdisciplinary teams, the scholarship holders develop and pursue their project idea over 20 months. They formulate their hypotheses and project goals, collect data, and finally present their findings. Experienced researchers and tutors accompany each team.

The TUM: Junge Akademie (TUMJA) envisions itself as a scholarship program for students from TUM and partners interested in science and academia. The scholarship program trains its members to act as open minded, responsible and reflective individuals, who provide constructive and responsible impulses to society by applying their intellectual potential.

This is realized by

  1. An environment to discover scientific project work. Therefore, TUMJA provides methods to support project management and organization, including the definition of goals, and time management.
  2. Bringing scientific research closer to the scholarship holders. Therefore, TUMJA motivates students for science, shows access possibilities towards academia, and reduces uncertainty and doubts regarding a doctorate.
  3. Providing basic knowledge about scientific research. Therefore, TUMJA introduces scholarship holders into scientific methodology and tools, methods to handle open questions, and communication of science with papers, presentations and posters to various target groups.
  4. Giving a chance to evolve individual transversal skills. Therefore, TUMJA addresses interdisciplinary collaboration, conflict management, cooperation with high professionals, presentation skills, and creativity. It further appreciates teamwork, the interaction between science and society, and its mutual influence.
  5. Enabling access to a powerful and heterogeneous network. Therefore, TUMJA supports students to get in touch with high professionals, research departments, and research-related external partners. It further maintains a growing network of highly motivated students and experienced alumni, who aim to broaden their horizon.
  6. Having fun and passion. This is essential for the scholarship holders to stay motivated and to keep on track with TUMJA beside their studies and other obligations.

 

Flipchart with Post-Its
(c) TUMJA

Project Phase

The core element of the TUM: Junge Akademie is the project phase. For 20 months, the scholarship holders work in interdisciplinary teams on their chosen projects. Experienced supervisors and tutors accompany the groups in developing and implementing their projects.

Freedom of content

Content-wise, the projects are not constrained. All scholarship holders are able to choose their favourite project, and the TUM: Junge Akademie supports all projects both financially and ideationally.

Workshops

TUM: Junge Akademie offers its scholarship holders various exclusive workshops and seminars. Some of them are thematically integrated into the project phase, but are as well valuable for the indiviual studies. The primary goal of the workshops is acquiring new skills. For example, there are workshops on the topics:

  • Project and Time management
  • Scientific and Journalistic writing
  • Communication and Presentation
[Translate to en:] TUMJA Symposium

Symposium and Publication

All project teams present their results at the annual symposium at the end of the twenty month project phase. In the end, all these papers are published in a project report book. more

[Translate to en:] TUMJA Akademiegespräch

Academy Talks

The regular Academy Talks offer members and guests the opportunity to talk to company founders, DAX board members and other fascinating personalities in a small setting.

[Translate to en:] TUMJA Taskforces

Commitment

Along with the project work, all scholarship holders become a member of one of our taskforces. The taskforces are responsible for organizational tasks like planning the annual symposium or selecting the next years’ scholarship holders. more

Freizeitprogramm - Gruppe an der Isar
Hike along the Isar

Leisure activities

Another central component of TUMJA is the wide range of cultural, sports, and entertainment events organized centrally by the office, in cooperation with other TUM institutions, and mostly directly by members for members by Taskforce Event.

  • Stammtisch once a month, at different locations in Munich
  • Sports activities, such as the participation in the annual dragon boat race in the Olympic Park, mountain hiking, water skiing, volleyball, running, and climbing
  • Art, such as theater and ballet performances
  • Culture, such as a visit to the ESO Supernova Planetarium or a brewery tour
  • Major events that invite you to join in, such as the annual summer festival or the TUM Campus Run
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