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Public Funds to Improve Conditions of Study
at the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Since winter semester 2013/14 Bavarian universities and
colleges receive state funding grants to replace course
fees which were abolished at the end of summer semester
2013. The level of this funding is based on the number of
students enrolled at the university in question. The funds
may only be used to improve conditions for students and
teaching staff.
At TUM funding may be used in two areas:
1. Common Areas of Responsibility
Common areas of responsibility are those that concern
several or all faculties, one or more campuses, in
particular effective priority teaching programmes and
university-wide structural programmes to improve
conditions of study.
2. Departmental Areas of Responsibility
Departmental areas of responsibility involve in particu-
lar the improvement of matters which relate specifically
to degree courses on offer, such as the amount, quality
and organisation of tuition (e.g. courses, course-related
measures, internationalisation, infrastructure, e-learn-
ing), and in some special cases also new degree
courses.
The legal basis for the use of tuition funding is laid down
in the TUM statute on the use of state funding grants.
Based on the tuition funding statute, the Department of
Mechanical Engineering has drawn up a tuition funding
concept. Projects in the following areas are funded:
■■subject and method competence, e.g. through set-
ting up or building up tutorials, practical experience
sessions and consultation sessions,
■■social competence, e.g. through financing of job
positions at the Center of Key Competences,
■■personality-related competence, e.g. through extension
of the opening hours of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering Library, and
■■general conditions, e.g. through financing a job position
at the Student Advisory Service.
Depending on the number of students at the Department
of Mechanical Engineering, the department receives
c. 1.7 million euros annually in the form of tuition funding.
This funding is generally employed as follows:
A detailed list of projects funded can be downloaded from
the website
n Teaching at Department of Mechanical Engineering by other faculties
(in particular, mathematics)
n Center of Key Competences
n Advice, service and administration
n Excursions and travel expenses
n Teaching by professors at Department of Mechanical Engineering,
funding of student groups
Use of public funding at the Department of Mechanical Engineering