• Shape scientific skills and research experience
• Foster self-organized project mangements
• Achieve projetct-based and PI-guided training
• Develop soft skills, social competences and professional networks relevant for academic and industrial careers
 

These goals are achieved by the following activities:

Activities directed towards shaping scientific skills and research experience:

• First year retreat with project specific presentations of the PhD students
• Scientific seminar series (every second week within summer/winter term) 
• Project-based and PI-guided peer-to-peer methodology workshop to be 
  completed in first half of the PhD
• Second year campus meeting providing guidance and mentoring by PIs and international experts
• Third year Science Camp for second and third PhD generations

 Activities directed towards developing soft skills and social competences

• TUM Graduate School provides a protfolio of advanced qualification courses through training institutions such as Carl von Linde Akademie and WIMES
• Networking events through excursions to international academic and industrial partners
• Seminar series on career requirements and development (violett seminars)
• Self-organized team building events