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A new degree program is launching at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ). THMresearch and development teams are creating innovations for industrial applications. The university is expanding its international network of partnerships, opening up additional study abroad opportunities for students. A graduate's thesis has received an award. A new professor has taken up his post. THM invites you to public lectures. Here you will find news from teaching, research, and university life in general.

Students develop ideas on how to make badminton sustainable

From teaching and research
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Students from the Department of Economics at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) collaborated with the climate initiative BadmintONEarth to explore ways to make badminton tournaments more sustainable. The students gained insights into the work of a social enterprise, and the climate initiative, led by professional badminton player Miranda Wilson and Olympic badminton player Kai Schäfer, provided valuable input for their own work.

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30 years of TransMIT: Putting knowledge into practice together

From teaching and research
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This week, TransMIT Gesellschaft für Technologietransfer mbH celebrated its 30th anniversary with a ceremony at the Volksbank Mittelhessen forum in Giessen . The anniversary event focused on three decades of successful knowledge and technology transfer from public research to business and society, concrete examples of the impact of this collaboration, and the future development of TransMIT as a high-performing transfer platform – in Central Hesse, throughout Germany, and increasingly at the European level.

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Anniversary celebration with current issues in construction

From teaching and research
A man in a suit speaks to the audience in front of a wood-paneled wall – the audience can only be vaguely discerned in the foreground.

The 20th Giessen Construction Forum brought together practitioners from engineering and architectural firms, companies, public authorities, and testing laboratories on the Wiesenstraße campus of THM of Applied Sciences. To mark the anniversary, participants received current information and practical insights into issues of modern construction – from new regulations and innovative structural concepts to digitalization and AI.

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AI in healthcare: THM showcases projects during citizen tour

From teaching and research
White standing tables are set up under a white pavilion, on which sit computers and other research instruments. A robot dog can be seen in the foreground. Many people are standing in a semicircle in front of and underneath the pavilion, talking to each other.

From AI-supported orientation during bronchoscopies, which can help to specifically locate conspicuous areas in later examinations, to machine learning for the detection of abnormal breathing patterns in infants, to a robot dog equipped with sensors: The Department of Health at THM demonstrated with its projects at the AI ​​Citizens' Tour of the Hessian Ministry of Digital Affairs how diverse AI can already be used in research and practice.

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Start-ups for the energy transition are guests at the THMFlexQuartier

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Lecture in a hall: A man presents a slide on sector coupling in front of a screen.

How do marketable solutions emerge from ideas? The FlexQuartier of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) in Giessen has become a meeting place for green energyStart-ups from all over Hesse: As part of the kick-off event of the “Genesis Accelerator” – a Hessian funding program for Start-ups and those interested in founding a company – the energyStart-ups presented themselves.

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10 Years of FCMH: Anniversary Celebration "From Campus to Core"

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Ten years of joint research, innovation, and inter-university collaboration: The Research Campus of Central Hessen (FCMH) celebrated its tenth anniversary on September 24, 2026. Partners, supporters, and guests from academia, politics, and business gathered in the auditorium of Justus Liebig University Giessen . Under the motto "From Campus to Core," Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Philipps University Marburg (UMR), and the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) honored the development of their joint network and simultaneously looked to the future.

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THM invites you to a ball evening at the Giessen Congress Hall

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People are dancing together in a hall, and a band is playing on the stage.

When the Giessen Congress Hall transforms into a ballroom on Friday, November 13, 2026, dancing will once again be on the agenda: Starting at 6:30 p.m., the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) invites you to a festive ball evening with live music. Those wishing to attend can still secure tickets at the early bird discount.

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“I am electric, I am a computer”

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Students of media informatics and electrical engineering at Friedberg THMexperienced a special form of academic teaching: In the Berlin Synthesizer Museum, the focus of a one-day workshop was the playful discovery and learning about a classic Roland System 700 modular synthesizer from the 1970s.

In a world where a few lines of code on a computer can generate any conceivable sound, "classic" analog modular synthesizers seem like a relic from a bygone era. The individual components have to be "patched" with a multitude of cables, and parameters have to be set manually. The entire system is not storable and difficult to reproduce. However, musicians are rewarded with unique sounds and musical structures for the moment.

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How the job for nursing professionals can be made easier

From teaching and research
Two women, wearing red scrubs and working in a care facility, sit at a desk and look together at the screen of a tablet. They were photographed from a slightly elevated angle.

A short walk, suddenly the elderly woman falls and nothing is ever the same again: In older people, falls are often accompanied by bone fractures that require long hospital treatment, intensive care and support, and where it is uncertain whether the patients will recover.

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