Mentoring and Support Programs
Would you like to attend intensive courses, get an early start into research, or collaborate with students from different departments? Or maybe you’d like to establish a network for your future career, or get career coaching from an experienced professor?
Mentoring and special programs offer all these possibilities and more for TUM Informatics students. If you’re looking to get more out of your studies, have a look at the offers – there’s something for everyone!
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The TUM School of CIT supports the top two percent of its students in Informatics degree programs through a dedicated initiative, independent of any other support program and without obligations for participants. The goal is to introduce outstanding students early to open and particularly challenging questions in Informatics. This initiative is coordinated by Prof. Arndt Bode (Arndt.Bode@lrz.de) and Sarah Aragon-Hahner (mentoring-in.asa@xcit.tum.de) and includes the following elements:
- Guidance on structuring your studies, assistance in connecting with academic chairs and industry partners, as well as opportunities for discussion and networking.
- Information on external funding options and scholarships.
- Support in selecting and applying for study, internship, and research opportunities in Germany and abroad, both in academia and industry.
- Consultation with the School on the development of Informatics education, particularly from the perspective of top-performing students.
- Regular updates on scientific events within the School of CIT.
- Nomination for TUM’s central talent initiative, the "Junge Akademie" (Young Academy), which emphasizes interdisciplinarity, soft skills, and personal development. The Junge Akademie offers an interdisciplinary project seminar, meetings with leaders from business and public life, themed evenings, excursions, weekend seminars, and more.
- Special courses such as "Perlen der Informatik" (Pearls of Informatics).
- Organization of excursions and networking events with companies and industry partners.
- A certificate recognizing you as an outstanding student.
Selection for the program is based on your academic achievements as of the end of the third semester and on recommendations for exceptional contributions to the School. The School will invite you, if you are qualified for membership. The membership ends with exmatriculation.
In addition to the best.in.tum program, the TUM School of CIT offers further opportunities for dedicated and talented students in the field of Informatics.
Pearls of Informatics – during their basic studies, selected students take part in a special two-hour course every semester
Summer School Marktoberdorf – a two-week summer course on Software Engineering and (formal) techniques and tools for development of dependable software systems
State Subsidies
Academic Advising Informatics – personalized support from TUM Informatics staff
Deloitte foundation - Scholarships for the best students of STEM fields and economic scienes. Selection by the chair of Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bungartz (information only available in German).
TUM Informatics students are able to participate in the many programs arranged by TUM centrally for talented students, including:
Mentoring at TUM – professional and supplementary skills training programs in all areas
TUM: Junge Akademie – supports outstanding, highly dedicated students and young alumni
Ferienakademie Sarntal – intensive summer courses in specialized subjects
Deutschlandstipendium - The Germany Scholarship provides financial and non-material support to high-achieving and committed students from all over the world.
TUM Diversity - Services to support the professional and personal development, as well as career planning for female students and young female professionals
Manage and More Scholarship - Teaches students to think and act entrepreneurially through hands-on projects, workshops and coaching
TUM Scholarships - Scholarship programs offered directly through TUM
TUM Informatics professors are engaged in many nationwide and Bavarian organizations that organize courses, scholarships, and mentoring programs for selected students.
Learn more:
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) - Promotes academic consolidation, interdisciplinary dialogue, a cosmopolitan world view and international experience
Elite Network of Bavaria - Designed for gifted students and young scientists
Bavarian Elite Academy - Supports gifted and motivated students from all of Bavaria’s universities on their way to becoming responsible leaders in the future.
Stipendium Plus - Promoting Young Talent in Higher Education - Provides an overview of support possibilities to students and young researchers with special talents
Software Campus - Trains and professionally develops tomorrow's senior IT executives while opening up excellent career prospects to young IT experts in Germany
Avicenna-Studienwerk - only for students and PhD candidates with very good German language skills
informatica feminale - Each year, Informatica Feminale offers compact teaching on computer science for female students at all levels of higher education and for women interested in continuing education.
Hilde Domin Programme - The funding is intended to support students at risk worldwide as well as doctoral candidates who are denied the right to education in their country of origin by enabling them to take up or continue their studies in Germany