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The Technische Universität München is one of the most research-focussed universities in Germany and Europe.

This claim is supported by relevant rankings, such as the DFG-Förderranking ( DFG Funding Rankings ) or the research rankings of the Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung ( CHE – Center for Higher Education Development ).

TUM was one of three universities which were successful in obtaining funding in all three funding lines of the Excellence Initiative in 2006.

Along with the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering ( IGSSE ) and TUM ’ s participation in five Clusters of Excellence, the strategic plan " TUM.

The Entrepreneurial University ” was funded.

The current round of the Excellence Initiative ( funding period 2012-2017 ) confirmed TUM's strategic concept, the graduate school IGSSE, the clusters of excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe, Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics, Nanosystems Initiative Munich, Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich and approved the new cluster Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology.

In addition, TUM takes part in more than 20 Collaborative Research Centres, of which TUM is the spokesperson in nine.

In the seventh European Union Research Framework Program, TUM coordinates thus far nine projects and also received six Starting Independent Researcher Grants and five Advanced Investigator Grants.