Bavaria invests in digital research and teaching at TUM

Campus news - The Bavarian State Government has adopted the "Bayern Digital II" master plan. The plan foresees the establishment of a worldwide leading center for assistance robotics together with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the expansion of the fortiss institute into the Bavarian Center for Artificial Intelligence and the founding of a scientific alliance for digital medicine among the Bavarian university hospitals. The cabinet held its meeting at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). The investment program, planned to last from 2018 until 2022, will have a volume of approximately three billion Euros and 2,000 jobs. It covers ten areas of digitalization, from infrastructure and IT security to education, medicine, and technologies in a large number of economic sectors and aspects of life. The cabinet invited TUM President Wolfgang A. Herrmann and TUM professor emeritus Manfred Broy, President of the Bavarian Digitalization Center, to its meeting at the TUM-IAS as experts. Herrmann called for the international orientation of the master plan.