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Important Notice

Applications for IDPs are now possible via the CIT-Portal. Details further below.

Interdisciplinary Project in an Application Subject (IDP)

The Interdisciplinary Project (IDP) is a required component of your Master’s of Informatics program. Through practical work in a minor subject, it bridges the gap between informatics and your chosen minor subject. It can be beneficial to choose a topic that relates to your undergraduate studies so that you possess some previous knowledge of the topic.

The IDP is worth 16 credits, earned through lecture with exercise (4 hours per week, no lab courses or seminars), practical work, documentation, and presentation.

Please note that lectures from the electives catalogue of Informatics cannot be taken as part of the IDP!

Information

Guideline IDP Project Description (Exposé)

It is strongly recommended to complete the IDP within 2 semesters.

The project description (exposé) should be 2 pages long and contain the following aspects:

  • title
  • description of content (about 1 page)
  • description of relationship between project and application area
  • accompanying lecture with module ID and name
  • justification of choice of lecture – how does it fit into concept?
  • milestones
  • timetable
  • responsible professor

Application

Please submit the application for your interdiciplinary project via the CIT-Portal and include your project description (exposé), following the above guideline. The application will be created by the respective chair, but must be accepted by you after receiving the corresponding email. You must register for the accompanying lecture and the corresponding exam yourself via TUM Online. Please consider the registration deadlines of the respective schools.

Important: If the exposé is not included or submitted within 7 days, your application will not be accepted!

Submission

Like the application, your documentation must be submitted via the CIT-Portal. The examiner will enter the grade for your project work in the CIT-Portal. The grade for the project work is composed as follows:

  • Practical Activity (max. 70%)
  • Documentation (min. 20%)
  • Presentation (min. 10%)

Once you have completed your IDP in both parts, lecture and project work, the overall grade (70% project work, 30% lecture) will be automatically visible in TUM Online after grading by the examiner. Should the lecture grade be set to valid after the project work has been graded, the overall grade will not be calculated automatically. In this case, please contact idp-in.asa(at)xcit.tum.de.

Possible Projects

This is a platform for chairs of other departments to announce possible Interdisciplinary Projects.

The following projects are currently available and announced online. You may (and often must) also search for an IDP on your own, see the How-To above for hints. If you are interested in one of the projects, please get in touch with the contact person listed in the project description.

Please note: There is no quality control for the announced projects. The quality of a project will only be checked together with the registration and acceptance process of an Interdisciplinary Project.

Announcements on other Websites

In addition to the listing below, some chairs also post IDPs on their own sites:

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