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Call for Abstracts: Young Researchers Seminar on Sustainable Material Cycles @ TUMCS
In the next edition of the Young Researchers Seminar on Sustainable Material Cycles, we invite PhD students and PostDocs working on a sustainable use of materials to share their research activities in an oral or poster presentation. Submit your abstract by May 31, 2025.
BMW Guest Lecture @TUM
On 02.12.2024, students attended an insightful guest lecture titled "Sustainability - Governance Responsibility in the Product Lifecycle," presented by Mr. Robert Martinez von Bülow, Head of Conformity of Production, Label Management, Product Certificates at BMW. The...
Publication: Designing circular and sustainable low-cost, low-weight, high-performance (LLH) products for hospitals – A life cycle assessment of FFP2 mask design configurations
Designing circular and sustainable products for hospitals is challenging, especially for one product group, the low-cost, low-weight, high-performance (LLH) products. This group is specifically sensitive to additional costs, weight, i.e. environmental impacts, or...
Circulaze Summit
On November 5th and 6th, 2024, doctoral students from the chair attended the Circulaze Award Night and the following Circulaze Summit. At the award ceremony on the first evening, 21 outstanding Circular Economy start-ups were honored in 8 categories. This was followed...
Circular Economy: Insights from Interdisciplinary Research
The concept of Circular Economy (CE) is widely discussed in business, academia, and policy to address a dual challenge: to transform practices from being significant negative to positive contributors to sustainable change.CE is a multifaceted concept that intersects...
AFRECAR @ EUCAR Conference in Brussels
As part of an innovative project study of the Technical University of Munich, a team of four master’s students from the Campus Straubing, guided by Prof. Magnus Fröhling and Vanessa Heinrich, is contributing to the AFRECAR project under EUCAR’s supervision. This...
Exchange at the Hydrogen Symposium
The first Munich Hydrogen Symposium took place from October 21st to 24th, 2024 at the Technical University of Munich in Garching. Industry experts, scientists and interested researchers were able to share their expertise in the field of hydrogen production, hydrogen...
Visiting Quest One GmbH
Interested doctoral students from the H2Giga hydrogen flagship project were able to take part in a factory tour at Quest One (formerly H-Tech Systems) in Hamburg on October 16th ,2024. The new Giga Hub was officially opened at the end of September. This ultramodern...
Welcome Jana and Elena!
We are happy about two new team members. In September, Jana Schirmeister joined us. Jana will work on Sustainable and Circular Business Models and be active in our teaching offers. Dr. Elena Corella started to work with us on September 15. She will work on Circular...
Welcome to the Winter Term 2024/2025!
Dear Students, We are excited to welcome you to a new semester at the Chair of Circular Economy. This term, we have prepared a diverse range of teaching offers designed to deepen your understanding of circular economy principles and their real-world applications....
Ökobilanzwerkstatt 2024 (LCA workshop)
This year, our three doctoral students Josef Huber, Inka Hahn and Sarah Hasslacher were able to take part in the LCA Workshop 2024, which took place in Stuttgart from September 24th to 26th. Under the motto “Science and Industry for Sustainability”, the Fraunhofer...
H2Giga status conference
On September 17th and 18th, 2024, the 3rd H2Giga status conference took place at the dbb Forum in Berlin. The individual subprojects presented exciting and groundbreaking results that have been developed in the last months. An interesting poster exhibition rounded off...
Strengthening the cooperation between TUM and KNUST: The Chair of Circular Economy back in Ghana
In its ongoing commitment to advancing Circular Economy practices in the Global South, a team of the TUM Chair of Circular Economy (CEC) led by Prof. Dr. Magnus Fröhling alongside Vanessa Heinrich and Svenja Klose embarked on a field trip to Ghana from 26 July to 3...
Participate in our Seminar: LCA Case Studies
The Chair for Circular Economy is offering a seminar in the coming winter semester 2024/2025. Apply now!
TUM Sustainability Day
On the 12th of June, CirculaTUM took part in TUM Sustainability Day 2024 at TUM Campus Garching. With more than 4,700 participants, CirculaTUM had a unique opportunity to raise awareness for the Circular Economy activities of the Network and the ongoing cutting-edge...