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The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are deepening their collaboration through joint initiatives to promote research transfer, innovation, and company foundations in Munich. The goal is to significantly strengthen the existing startup ecosystem in the fields of cybersecurity and trustworthy AI by effectively and scalably transferring disruptive research results from CISPA and TUM into practice and entrepreneurial value creation.
After the successful establishment of an institutional research collaboration last year, CISPA and TUM are now taking the next step and expanding their cooperation to include the transfer of research results into startups and the associated creation of economic value. With UnternehmerTUM and the TUM Venture Labs, Munich offers ideal conditions for this: scientific innovative strength, a strong high-tech landscape, close integration of science and industry, and a policy environment that actively supports innovation. The internationally leading CISPA research in the areas of cybersecurity and trustworthy AI creates the opportunity to significantly increase the existing activities in technology transfer in Munich once again. For this purpose, CISPA is building a strong transfer presence in Munich in close cooperation with TUM and its partners. Both institutions expect that by combining the excellent research and transfer structures in Munich with CISPA's research strength, top-level research can be directly transferred into new applications, technologies, and startups—and thus made socially effective.
CISPA Founding Director and CEO Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes says: “As early as last year, we entered into a close partnership with TUM—a partner that shares our vision and ideally complements our work. With this next step, we are deepening our collaboration even further: Munich offers excellent conditions for bringing our top-level research in cybersecurity and trustworthy AI quickly and effectively into society, with its outstanding transfer infrastructure, its international networks, and the strong support of science and industry. That is why we have decided to make Munich a central location for collaborative research and our transfer activities."
TUM President Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann explains: “TUM stands for a unique combination of scientific excellence, innovative strength, and an entrepreneurial mindset. With CISPA, we are gaining an excellent partner that ideally complements our strengths. Together with CISPA—and in extension with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) within the framework of the ONE MUNICH strategy—we are creating a competitive basis to further develop Munich as an internationally visible innovation location for cybersecurity and trustworthy AI, and to transfer the results of top-level research directly into innovative applications and successful startups.”
About CISPA
The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security is a national Big Science institution within the Helmholtz Association. It explores information security in all its facets in order to comprehensively and holistically address the pressing major challenges of cybersecurity and trustworthy artificial intelligence that our society faces in the digital age. CISPA holds a global leadership position in the field of cybersecurity, combining cutting-edge and often disruptive foundational research with innovative applied research, technology transfer, and societal discourse. Thematically, it aims to cover the entire spectrum from theory to empirical research. It is internationally recognized as a training ground for the next generation of cybersecurity experts and scientific leaders in the field.
About TUM
The Technical University of Munich (TUM), with around 700 professorships, 53,000 students, and 11,000 staff members, is one of the world’s strongest universities in research, teaching, and innovation. Its academic spectrum covers computer science, engineering, natural and life sciences, medicine, mathematics, as well as management and social sciences. Acting as an entrepreneurial university, it sees itself as a marketplace of knowledge, open to society. More than 70 startups are founded at TUM every year, making it a key player in Munich’s high-tech ecosystem. Globally, it is represented by its TUM Asia campus in Singapore and offices in Brussels, Mumbai, Beijing, San Francisco, and São Paulo. Nobel laureates and inventors such as Rudolf Diesel, Carl von Linde, and Rudolf Mößbauer have conducted research at TUM. In 2006, 2012, and 2019, it was designated as a University of Excellence. In international rankings, it is regularly cited as the best university in the European Union.
Archival photo: CISPA CEO and Founding Director Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes (left) with TUM P ...
Copyright: Ulrich Meyer/TUM
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