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Global network is growing

TUM and NTU Singapore sign flagship partnership

• TUM's fourth flagship partnership• Focus on quantum sciences

• Connection with Joint Global Research Hub at TUM Campus Heilbronn

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have set up a flagship partnership. The agreement strengthens TUM's cooperation with NTU and its global network in Southeast Asia.

The partnership, signed by NTU President Prof. Ho Teck Hua and TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, aims to strengthen cooperation at all levels, from education and research to innovation, entrepreneurship and lifelong learning.

"As TUM President, I am proud of our long-standing and very successful collaboration with NTU at our TUM Campus Singapore," says Thomas F. Hofmann. Therefore, the flagship partnership with NTU was the next consequent step. "This strengthens our global network of excellent, technically oriented universities," says Thomas F. Hofmann, "and brings our German Engineering with Asian Relevance approach, which we have successfully pursued in Singapore for over 20 years, into the network via NTU. In this way, we can also specifically tackle the major challenges facing humanity in one of the most dynamically growing regions of the world, Southeast Asia, together with our partners." In addition to NTU, TUM's flagship partners are Imperial College London, Tsinghua University and the University of Queensland.

New quantum partnership

To strengthen the strategic partnership and presence in Singapore, NTU and TUM, together with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, have submitted a proposal for a new program on quantum sovereignty and resilience to the National Research Foundation of Singapore. This application is supported by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. The foundation is funding one professorship each in quantum science at NTU and NUS. At the same time, researchers from Singapore will be connected via the Joint Global Research Hub at the TUM Campus Heilbronn, which includes other top-class partners such as HEC Paris, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Oxford, Stanford University and ETH Zurich in addition to TUM.

In addition to the quantum partnership, TUM will expand its cooperation with Singapore in the areas of artificial intelligence, health and biomedicine, materials science and aerospace. A joint Bachelor's degree program with NTU is also intended.

Further information:

• TUM in Singapore: www.tum.de/en/community/global-network/singapore

• Nanyang Technological University (NTU): https://www.ntu.edu.sg

• TUM's flagship partners: www.international.tum.de/en/global/partnerships-initiatives/

• Quantum technologies at TUM: www.tum.de/en/research/research-goals/digitalization-ai-and-quantum-technologies/quantum-technologies

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TUM Corporate Communications Center contact:

Prof. Dr. Jeanne RubnerTechnical University of Munich (TUM)

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jeanne.rubner@tum.de

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the world’s leading universities in terms of research, teaching and innovation, with around 650 professorships, 52,000 students and 12,000 staff. TUM’s range of subjects includes engineering, natural and life sciences, medicine, computer sciences, mathematics, economics and social sciences. As an entrepreneurial university, TUM envisages itself as a global hub of knowledge exchange, open to society. Every year, more than 70 start-ups are founded at TUM, which acts as a key player in Munich’s high-tech ecosystem. The university is represented around the world by its TUM Asia campus in Singapore along with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Mumbai, San Francisco and São Paulo. Nobel Prize laureates and inventors such as Rudolf Diesel, Carl von Linde and Rudolf Mößbauer have conducted research at TUM, which was awarded the title of University of Excellence in 2006, 2012 and 2019. International rankings regularly cite TUM as the best university in the European Union.