May 2024

TUM Sustainability Day

TUM Sustainability Day, 12 June 2024

Dear TUM Family Members,

Our university is committed to a sustainable future and is sending out a clear signal with the TUM Sustainability Day on June, 12th, 2024: We aim to walk our talk! We activate the resources of our entire university community in the area of sustainability.

I cordially invite you to experience the diversity and potential of all sustainability topics and activities at our university on TUM Sustainability Day. Throughout the day, from 12:00 noon–10:00 pm, at the Mechanical Engineering building in Garching, an engaging and vibrant program awaits designed to inform, inspire, and foster connections.

  • When: June 12, 2024; 12:00 noon–10:00 pm
  • Where: Boltzmannstraße 15, Campus Garching
  • Lecture free from 12:00 noon; attendance counts as work time
  • Language: English (some workshops in German)
  • No registration necessary
  • More information: www.tum.de/sustainability-day-2024


On this day, the Mechanical Engineering building in Garching will be transformed into a sustainability fair, our “Market of Opportunities”. Here, you will get to know over 100 initiatives from the entire university community and associated partners in all dimensions of sustainability. In addition, you can expect a diverse and interactive program with over 50 different workshops, discussions, and other events with various impulses at all levels.

I would like to draw your attention to some highlights:

From 12:00 noon

Doors open: “Market of Opportunities” – Sustainability Fair

12:30 – 01:30 pm

Introductory event: “Sustainability at TUM“ with President Thomas F. Hofmann

02:00 – 03:45 pm

Panel discussions „Universities Driving Sustainability“ and “TUM in Transformation“

02:30 – 04:15 pm

Clean Tech Hub launch and Clean Tech Innovation Sprint 2024 Award Ceremony

05:00 – 06:00 pm

TUM Speaker Series with Nico Rosberg

06:00 – 07:00 pm

Recap and outlook

07:00 – 10:00 pm

Networking and after-party


TUM Sustainability Day is part of our TUM Sustainability Week, which runs from June 10 to 14, 2024. Visit the website for detailed information on the program of the TUM Sustainability Day and the TUM Sustainability Week in various locations: www.tum.de/sustainability-day-2024

I am looking forward to welcoming you at our TUM Sustainability Day on June 12, 2024. Your participation will enrich the discussions and I hope you will gain new insights, contacts and inspiration.

Best regards,

Thomas F. Hofmann
President

January 2024

November 2023

Webinar: Legal frameworks, drivers and barriers for energy communities 

Webinar: Legal frameworks, drivers and barriers for energy communities

Thursday 23 November 2023, 10:00 - 11:30

Registration and more informations here: https://energy-communities-repository.ec.europa.eu/energy-communities-repository-news-and-events/energy-communities-repository-events/webinar-and-qa-legal-frameworks-drivers-and-barriers-energy-communities-2023-11-23_en


Founding Workshop 01 December 2023

Dear interested parties of the Academic Energy Cooperative, we hope you had a great start into the semester! At the Academic Energy Cooperative, we also want to kick things off and begin our journey towards founding the cooperative – together with you!

In case you missed the last information event, you can find all topics on this wiki page, which will also be our online presence under construction for now: https://collab.dvb.bayern/display/TUMacademicenergycooperative/Academic+Energy+Cooperative+@+TUM

Furthermore, we’re now working closely with a research project TUM is part of: “Creating NEBourhoods Together” (https://www.nebourhoods.de/) tries to also implement an energy cooperative in Neuperlach. This cooperative could be a cooperation partner and location for our first projects, and we can also learn from each other on the way to founding!

Next Steps


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To create a common vision and begin working in all the different groups, we would like to have a kick off workshop. Proposed Date: Friday, 1.12., 16:30 - approx. 19:30 Please enter here whether you can join the workshop: https://forms.office.com/e/F55pUmghtc


Things to do until then

In the meantime, we would like to work on some topics. Those mostly include research but also some creativity, and we would be glad to have you on board already. We’ll coordinate everything in our Microsoft Teams, for an explanation on how to join see below! The topics and respective working groups in Teams are:

  • Public Relations
    • Designing materials (for social media as well as a poster/flyer) to promote the cooperative and especially the workshop
    • Brainstorming designs for a logo
    • Brainstorming for corporate identity/branding
  • Founding Workshop
    • Think of possible formats for the founding workshop
    • Develop an agenda
    • We could invite experts for the different working groups, do you know somebody?
  • Finance
    • Think of different business models or parts of business models
    • Think of ways to present them nicely
  • Legal
    • Researching which town councils (Kommunen) in Germany actively participate in energy cooperatives (are part of them or give their roofs etc.).
    • Working on the charter (Satzung): We already have a first draft, you can research some more and brainstorm what would be good to include etc.


How to work on the topics?

In each of the mentioned working groups (channels in teams), we will write a message repeating the information. If you want to work on a topic, please just write a short sentence in the comment section of the message! Furthermore, we have a tab “tasks” in each channel, where you can assign yourself to a task and create new tasks.

For documenting your ideas and work, please (in each channel) use the tab “Dateien” to store files and the tab “OneNote” for notes. Furthermore, if you feel more comfortable with Miro, you can also use the Miro boards posted into the channels. Furthermore, you can already fill out the template in the Miro boards of the working groups you are interested in.

If you have any questions, you are highly encouraged to just write a message into the channels or reach out to Serena, Markus or Manuel directly via the chat function of Teams! Furthermore, we will have a meeting once some people joined the Team to discuss the tasks.


Teams

If you want to participate in the initiative, it is crucial that you join our Team in TUM MS Teams. You can enter via this link and being logged into your TUM Office 365 account: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3aPmyxtbQZf3F62WOH9K4swCrIjlLy7ru-nr7KcwPQl181%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=546b2a31-3e1b-445e-94d1-918e8b9d1b61&tenantId=5d7b49e9-50d2-40dc-bab1-14a2d903542c

If you have any difficulties joining or activating your office 365 account, please just contact us! You can find some documentation here: https://collab.dvb.bayern/display/TUMsoftware/Zentrale+Software-Angebote+der+TUM Also keep in mind that you have to use the MS Teams instance “for work and school”, not the private one.

Furthermore, once you joined the Team you can check out this document for some basic how to’s on how to use Teams – the most important point is to make all channels you are interested in visible and enable notifications, since they are turned off by default! Teams: How to use it  (Webansicht)


We’re looking forward to working together and meeting you all soon! In case you have any questions right away, just contact us!

Best wishes!


Serena, Markus and Manuel


October 2023

TUM Student Club Fair 2023

Visit us at TUM Student Club Fair, October 25, Campus Garching

Are you passionate about a particular topic, want to become part of a TUM Student Club or pursue your own project or idea together with others? Visit the TUM Student Club Fair, experience the diversity of student involvement at TUM and get to know our student clubs in a relaxed atmosphere.

About 100 student clubs and TUM partners will present their projects and activities to the TUM community at this year's TUM Student Club Fair at Campus Garching.

You will find the Academic Energy Cooperative at the Referat für Umwelt booth 67 | Yard 5.

Registration is not required - just drop by, take a look around, meet like-minded people and get inspired.

When: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Where: Magistrale Mechanical Engineering, Garching Campus

Here you’ll find the booth plan with participating clubs & partners. (PDF, 147 KB)

September 2023

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