The Straubing Campus for Biotechnology and Sustainability of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is becoming increasingly popular: around 160 new Master’s students will start their studies at the TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) at the start of lectures on Monday.
The Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) was one of four regions in Germany to successfully apply to take part in the Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival. With several events organized in Straubing, the TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) took part in this bioeconomy festival week together with other partners. The aim of the festival week was primarily to attract young people as drivers of the sustainable transformation. In total, more than 200 interested people attended the events.
Prof Brook Kennedy, an internationally renowned designer, recently visited the TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) for Biotechnology and Sustainability. The award-winning pioneer of industrial design spent three weeks as a guest at Prof Cordt Zollfrank’s Chair of Biogenic Polymers and explored possible collaborations with the researchers in Straubing.
On Monday, 29 January, the student council presented the Teaching Excellence Award 2023. This student prize is awarded annually for the best teaching and recognises effort, hard work and outstanding teaching. “But it’s also a way to thank our professors for everything and their exceptional work,” says the student council.
As part of the seminar “Circular Economy and Sustainability Management in the Global South”, ten TUMCS students, accompanied by Prof. Dr. Magnus Fröhling and Vanessa Heinrich, traveled to the Ghanaian capital Accra. For years, e-waste from all over the world – including Germany – has accumulated in West Africa, mostly imported illegally into the region and processed and recycled locally under precarious and dangerous conditions.
The prize is awarded to students, doctoral candidates or scientists working at the Competence Center for Renewable Resources and have drawn attention to themselves through special achievements or initiatives, also in support of outstanding dissertations, master’s or diploma theses.