Sustainability Student Intitiatives Forum

The Sustainability Student Initiatives Forum connects and enables the sharing of knowledge and experiences of student initiatives that focus on sustainability.

What does the SSIF do?

The SSIF provides a network for students and student initiatives concerned with sustainability topics. Through regular events and a common chat room – thoughts, ideas and challenges are exchanged, discussed and developed.

  • Connect initiatives with each other & with interested students 
  • Organize workshops on topics relevant for student initiatives (communication, visibility, funding) 
  • Facilitate co-learning through knowledge exchange on common challenges 
  • Enable participation in student club fairs and participation in sustainability events for visibility and networking with the TUM community

The SSIF is a joint project of the TUM Sustainability Office and the Environmental Department of the Student Representation (Referat für Umwelt)

We provide the space and platform – the content is co-created with and for the initiatives!

Everyone at TUM – especially those people that answer YES to one or both of the following questions: 

  • You want to get engaged with a student initiative, but don’t know which one suits you best? 
  • You are already an initiative at TUM and are looking for a way to network with other initiatives and present your work to students?

You want to join and network with other initiatives?

Send us an email to sustainability@tum.de for more information. 

You want to join? Send us a message and we will add you to our Telegram group!

Or visit our websites for more information: 

TUM Sustainability Office 

Referat für Umwelt

What has been done so far? – our past events

In the sixth SSIF session the central activity was a discussion on potential future formats and activities of the SSIF. The needs and wants of the initiatives were discussed and ideas on how to support the initiatives were shared. Additionaly, each initiative provided a short description of their initiative – which will be published on the Website of the Referat für Umwelt.

At the first TUM Sustainability Day on the 27. Oktober 2022, the TUM presented its Sustainable Futures Strategy and across all TUM campuses events on the topic of sustainability took place. The SSIF organized a fair where 16 initiatives presented themselves in interactive booths. This allowed the initiatives to present their work, answer questions and engage with interested students that visited the fair.

In the fourth SSIF Session the involvement of the initiatives in the TUM Sustainability Day was planned. Events and participation in for the day were discussed and initiatives were informed about general organization and to-dos.

In the third SSIF session – all focus was on how the topic of communication. In an interactive discussion best practice on internal and external communication were shared. Participants connected and exchanged past experiences on good and bad communication and discussed how to improve communication personally and within their initiative.

In the second SSIF session initiatives exchanged their experiences and thoughts, and shared best practices and ideas on three topics:  

  • How do you have good meetings online?  
  • How do you attract new members in times of Corona?  
  • Lets talk about funding – what do we need and how do we get it?

In the first SSIF session we focused on getting to know each other! First the purpose of the SSIF was shared, then different initiatives gave short pitches on their own work and purpose. We finished off the session with “speed dating” – initiatives had the opportunity to network with each other through being randomly assigned into little groups to exchange thoughts and ideas.

Sustainable initiatives

Video project to raise awareness and create empathy for people experiencing climate change today.

Location: Virtual
Website: https://100vop.org
E-mail: 100voices.oneplanet@gmail.com
Instagram: @100vop

Student consulting for social impact in business and society.

Location: Munich
Website: https://www.180dcmunich.org
E-mail: info@180dcmunich.org
Instagram: @180cdmunich

The Sustainability Working Group of the Faculty of Architecture at TUM, an association of students, teachers and researchers aiming at making their faculty and university more sustainable.

Location: Munich
Website: https://nachhaltigkeit.ar.tum.de
E-mail: nachhaltigkeit@ar.tum.de

The Sustainability Working Group of the Faculty of Physics at TUM, an association of students, teachers and researchers aiming at making their faculty and university more sustainable.

Location: Garching
Website: https://meeting.fs.tum.de/physikak/
E-mail: umwelt-fsphysik@fs.tum.de

Through project-based work, students support people in need – in Germany and around the world.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://campusforchange.org
E-mail: info@campus4change.org
Instagram: @campus4change

Community garden by students of the TUM and HSWT on the Weihenstephan campus.

Location:  Freising
Website: https://campusgarten-knosporus.webnode.page/
E-mail: campusgarten.knosporus@t-online.de
Instagram: @campusgarten.knosporus

Interdisciplinary and socio-critical seminars for first-year students of all faculties. And for everyone else.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://www.desorientierungstage.de/
E-mail: http://www.desorientierungstage.de/
Instagram: @desorientierungstage

Facilitating social and environmental internships and volunteer projects abroad.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://www.aiesec.de/lcs/muenchen
E-mail: muenchen@aiesec.de
Instagram: @aiesec

Location:  Munich
Website: https://muenchen.enactus.de/en/
Instagram: @enactusmuenchen

A student-run office that acts as the first point of contact for ideas on the topic of sustainability and how to implement it in practice on campus.

Location: Straubing
Website: https://www.cs.tum.de/studies/working-groups-green-office/green-office/?lang=en
E-mail: https://www.cs.tum.de/studies/working-groups-green-office/green-office/?lang=en
Instagram: @greenoffice.tumcs

A student-run office that acts as the first point of contact for ideas on the topic of sustainability and how to implement it in practice on campus.

Location:  Freising
Website: https://www.wzw.tum.de/index.php?id=562
E-mail: greenoffice.weihenstephan@tum.de
Instagram: @greenoffice_tum

Globally organised and locally active student initiative that connects forestry students with their peers and forest-related organisations through various types of events.

Location:  Freising
Website: https://www.facebook.com/IFSALCFreising/
E-mail: freising@lc.ifsa.net
Instagram: @ifsa_freising

A not-for-profit, independent organisation providing project-based assistance where technical cooperation is needed and possible.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://www.ingenieure-ohne-grenzen.org/de/mitmachen/regionalgruppe-muenchen
E-mail: muenchen@ingenieure-ohne-grenzen.org

Every semester we organize the Public Interdisciplinary Environmental Lecture Series. Our dedicated team plans and designs a new and inspiring program on current environmental topics, which is translated into a course where students can earn 1 or 3 ECTS.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://umwelt.asta.tum.de/en/ringvorlesung/
E-mail: rivo@fs.tum.de
Instagram: @umweltreferat

We are a Munich group that meets bi-weekly to talk about the climate crisis and plan local activities: demonstrations, poster and e-mail campaigns, information exchange and much more.

Location:  Garching
Website: https://klima.cafe/
E-mail: contact@klima.cafe
Instagram: @cafeklima

As a local group of the Landesbund für Vogelschutz, excursions, lectures and regular meetings are organized to explore nature together, to deepen our knowledge of species and to have fun at the same time.

Location:  Freising
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LBVHGFS/
E-mail: hochschulgruppe.freising@lbv.de
Instagram: @lbv_hochschulgruppe_freising

Location:  Munich
Website: https://medtechoneworldstudents.wordpress.com/

We are a group of students at the Weihenstephan campus who are interested in ecological land use issues. We organize lectures, discussions and film screenings on the topics: Sustainability, Ecology & Environmental Protection.

Location:  Freising
E-mail: oekoak-weihenstephan@posteo.de
Instagram: @oekoak_weihenstephan

A student urban gardening project that aims to raise awareness about food production and consumption, encourage and strengthen relationships with nature, and demonstrate sustainability on the university campus.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://umwelt.asta.tum.de/plantaseed/
E-mail: plantaseed.tum@gmail.com
Instagram: @plantaseed_tum

We are the Department for Environment of the Student Council of the TU Munich (Umwelt Referat, or ‘Uref’ for short). We address sustainability issues at the university in a variety of ways and organize sustainable events and projects.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://umwelt.asta.tum.de
E-mail: umwelt@fs.tum.de
Instagram: @umweltreferat

A group of students from various universities in Munich who campaign for topics such as sustainability, corporate responsibility, green investment or social entrepreneurship with a wide variety of activities and events – and also work for institutions, NGOs and companies to do so.

Location:  Munich
Website: https://www.sneep.info/lokalgruppen/muenchen/
E-mail: muenchen@sneep.info

SRM talks is an initiative from the students of the graduate program „Sustainable Resource Management“ that organizes monthly talks under the motto „SRM talks challenges of the future“.

Location:  Freising
Website: http://www.srmtalks.org/
E-mail: srmtalks@wzw.tum.de
Instagram: @srmtalks.tum

The Department for Urban Improvement* is a group of architecture and urban studies students at TUM, united in the search for a more beautiful city, they constantly question both.

Location: Munich
Website: https://stadtverbesserungsreferat.de/news/
E-mail: kontakt@stadtverbesserungsreferat.de

Location: Munich
Website: https://www.tum.de/studium/studienfinanzierung/stipendien/stipendien-der-tum/deutschlandstipendium/was-wir-machen/wir-engagieren-uns
Email: talente-spenden@tum.de
Instagram: @talente.spenden

A platform to empower students to communicate their ideas and knowledge in sustainability.

Location: Freising
Website: http://thegreenteamtum.com/
Email: thegreenteamsrm@gmail.com
Instagram: @tum_thegreenteam

Projects working on the question, how energy transition can foster sustainable development of communities in Africa.

Location: Munich
Website: https://tu-empower-africa.org/
Email: info@tu-empower-africa.org
Instagram: @tuempowerafrica

Location: Munich
Website: https://tufast-eco.de/
Email: info.eco@tufast.de
Instagram: @tufastecoteam

Location: Munich
Website: https://www.tumcarbon.com/
Email: team@tumcarbon.com
Instagram: @tum_carbon

We would like to open a self-help workshop for bicycles at the Garching campus. Until we can make this plan a reality, we host regular pop-up workshops on different TUM campus.

Location: Garching
Website: https://umwelt.asta.tum.de/en/reparadtum/
Email: bike@fs.tum.de
Instagram: @reparad_tum