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About the sponsor

In Munich, two universities participate in the project. While the lectures are broadcast to the lecture hall at the Luwwig-Maximilians Univerity, a number of technical and administrative staff from the Technical University helped make this possible.

Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich

LMU Munich is one of the most internationally renowned universities in Germany with a long history. Those who decide to come to LMU have opted for a real Universitas with 122 courses and numerous possible combinations. LMU, in the heart of Munich, is an institution that opens up career opportunities and combines outstanding research programs with demanding courses. Creativity, open-mindedness and creative intelligence are prerequisites.

LMU Munich excels in training doctors, lawyers and economists; it is the center of attraction for experts in humanities, social sciences and cultural studies, and the Bavarian center of scientific and biomedical research on the HighTechCampusLMU in Großhadern. There are cluster combining the courses of medicine, chemistry, pharmacy, the genetic center and biology is developing, which is unique in Europe and is located in the immediate vicinity of numerous outsourced bio-tech facilities and renowned research institutions.

In numerous rankings, LMU is among the frontrunners due to its scientific performances. Diversity and quality are the basis for teamwork with excellent results. A large number of joint projects and international cooperations are the reason why the campus is a center of state-of-the-art research. LMU Munich offers a wide range of courses with innumerable possible combinations: multidisciplinarity and internationality are of great importance. Alongside Bachelor, Masters programs and Doctorate programs with an international bias, student exchanges, for example with the Harvard Medical School or exchange programs for students of archaeology with Cambridge University are an important part of the studies.

At a university as big as LMU Munich with many campuses it is not easy to find your way around and to find out what is going on. To help university staff and students with orientation and to increase identification with their alma mater, there is a virtual platform with a wide range of services: www.campus.lmu.de. With inscription all LMU students receive a user name and a password.

Technical University Munich

The Technical University Munich (TUM) holds a unique position in Europe in terms of the choice of fields it offers. The courses cover all areas of the natural and engineering sciences, along with medicine and life sciences. Sport science, which is offered by the university as a legacy of the 1972 Olympic Games, acts as a bridge between all the other subjects and is now organized into a separate faculty. In 2002 TUM Business School was founded. We are ranked foremost among German universities in terms of both total research grant turnover (approx. EUR 130 million per year) and the number of guest researchers from all over the world, working at our university with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

TUM is aiming to develop a network of strategic partnerships with leading international universities in cooperation with global partners in industry and commerce. International cooperation has a long tradition in all our faculties since we regard as crucial to maintaining high-quality research and ensuring the scientific competitiveness of our teaching. We seek to educate students as closely as possible in line with the latest scientific findings, ensuring that academic work goes had in hand with research. This is the academic spirit instilled by the great German educational reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt, and it is in this spirit that the TUM approaches its daily work.