Imperial-TUM Global Fellows Program
From 2017 till 2019 the Graduate Schools at Imperial College London (ICL) and TUM were collaborating to deliver the Imperial-TUM Global Fellows Programme: Cities of the Future. Since 2021, we welcomed a new partner, the Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU), successfully developing the Imperial College London-TUM bilateral program into a trilateral collaboration.
The 5 days program focused on professional skills training and collaboration activities under a different academic theme. Designed for 40-50 doctoral candidates from all disciplines, the Summer School allowed participants to develop their experience of working in intercultural teams and to develop their research and collaborative skills within an international context, as well as benefitting from insights of leading researchers at the partner universities.
Trilateral Imperial-TUM-NTU Global Fellows Program 2023
The 2023 Global Fellows Program was hosted by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for the first time. From 19 - 23 June 2023, 39 doctoral candidates from Imperial College London, NTU, and TUM spent an exciting five days together working on their collaborative and networking skills under the “Data for Sustainability” program theme.
The program of the 3rd trilateral Global Fellows Program can be found here.
Impressions of the 3rd trilateral Imperial-TUM-NTU Global Fellows Program
Trilateral ICL-TUM-NTU Global Fellows Program 2022
After the cancellation of the 2020 program caused by the global pandemic and the remote 1st trilateral ICL-TUM-NTU Global Fellows Program in 2021, the 2nd trilateral Global Fellows Program took place from 20th- 24th June 2022 at the premises of the TUM-GS at Campus Garching-Forschungszentrum. The 5-days interdisciplinary program was also the first program to take place on site with the new partner Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU), successfully developing the Imperial College London-TUM bilateral program into a trilateral collaboration.
Under the 2022 program theme “The role of robotics in well-being and the workplace”, 39 doctoral candidates from Imperial, NTU and TUM engaged in intercultural, interdisciplinary and intersectoral discussions and developed their own creative approaches to handle and use robotics to tackle societal challenges and enhance everyday life and work.
The program of the 2nd trilateral Imperial-TUM-NTU Global Fellows Program 2022 can be downloaded here.
Impressions of the 2nd trilateral Imperial-TUM-NTU Global Fellows Program
ICL-TUM Global Fellows Program 2018
From 11-15 June 2018 the second ICL-TUM Global Fellows Programme: Cities of the Future was hosted by Imperial College London at the Velodrome, Olympic Park in London, UK. The focus for 2018 was “Innovation and Design for Health and Wellbeing” covering all aspects of health care, transport, housing and sustainability for all generations and all communities. Technological innovations and solutions which assist in improving quality of life in cities was also explored.
Amongst others, academic talks where given on topics such as
- "Legacies of mega sport events" (Prof Jörg Königstorfer, TUM)
- "Mobility that promotes health and wellbeing" (Prof Rolf Moeckel, TUM)
- "Urban air mobility" (Dr Jürgen Rauleder, TUM)
- "Using digital smartphone-based technologies to engage citizens in healthy and sustainable transport behaviour" (Dr Audrey de Nazelle, ICL)
The program also featured a very interesting and enjoyable morning at the new Imperial College London Campus in White City where program participants and experts from ICL discussed about public outreach and responsibilites of universities for the development of urban communities.
The program of the 2nd ICL-TUM Global Fellows Program 2018 can be downloaded here.
Impressions of the 2nd ICL-TUM Global Fellows Program
ICL-TUM Global Fellows Program 2017
The 1st Imperial-TUM Global Fellows Program: Cities of the Future took place in July 2017 in Burghausen, near Munich. It was jointly organised between Imperial College London (ICL) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) with a call to Global Tech Alliance partners to send doctoral researchers. At the programme there were 50 participating doctoral researchers of which 20 were from ICL, 20 from TUM and 10 from Global Tech Partner Institutions. The participating universities were University of New South Wales, Georgia Tech, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Academic keynotes included:
- "Visuality for Cities of the Future" (Prof Liqiu Meng, TUM)
- "The role of Universities in the city: Societal Engagement and Outreach" (Prof Maggie Dallman, ICL)
- "Sustainability as Transformational Trigger" (Prof Thomas Auer, TUM)
- "Affect, Behaviour, and the City" (Prof Björn Schuller, ICL)
- "Cities of the future – the Challenges of Transformation" (Prof Mark Michaeli, TUM)
- "Kuala Lumpur – ‘Kampungs’ in the Context of a Global City" (Frank Eisenmann, TUM)
Industry keynotes included:
- "Mobility for Cities of the Future" (Dr Andreas Mehlhorn, Siemens Mobility)
- "The City of Munich's Digital Transformation" (Alexander Lang, City of Munich, Department of Urban Plannung)
Impressions of the 1st ICL-TUM Global Fellows Program
(Images: Andreas Heddergott)