Annual Report 2012 / 2013
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Real Projects Seminar<br />
In <strong>2012</strong> some 350 students took part in Real Projects<br />
seminars. About 20 teachers conducted the seminars<br />
and supervised the project teams. The topics were very<br />
diverse, including urban farming, the renewable energy<br />
revolution, smart windows, Cool Down 2020 in cooperation<br />
with Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances,<br />
Urban Mobility 2020, Munich night-life and social<br />
entrepreneurship.<br />
Real Projects at the Munich University of Applied<br />
Sciences are interdepartmental project seminars in<br />
which students work in interdisciplinary teams on<br />
exciting, future-relevant project topics, which they may<br />
continue pursuing after the seminar, with a business<br />
partner for example or by starting their own business.<br />
The students learn about entrepreneurship first-hand<br />
working on these Real Projects.<br />
A semester-long seminar and block seminar are presented<br />
below as examples of the seminars offered in<br />
<strong>2012</strong>.<br />
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Urban Farming<br />
Urban gardens and farms on or in buildings were the<br />
focus of the Urban Farming seminar. In the 2011/<strong>2012</strong><br />
winter semester, business managers, mechatronic engineers<br />
and designers developed innovative business<br />
ideas and product concepts for smaller, automated<br />
farm operations for restaurants, office use or home use.<br />
At the end of the seminar the prototypes were presented<br />
to the more than 100 guests in attendance. One<br />
team pursued its entrepreneurial idea further and won<br />
a business plan competition shortly after conclusion of<br />
the seminar.<br />
In addition to students from the aforementioned disciplines,<br />
architecture students took part in the summer<br />
semester <strong>2012</strong> course to contribute their own insights<br />
regarding large-scale urban farming operations for<br />
corporate customers. The six teams, comprised of<br />
representatives of four separate disciplines, developed<br />
fascinating concepts ranging from in-office hanging<br />
gardens to automated flower window boxes for elder<br />
care facilities on down to roof gardens for occupational<br />
therapy at hospitals. Several students again investigated<br />
options for concrete project implementation.
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