Painting session at TU Kunstforum 

On campus

Social event

12.00 – 14.00 CEST

The RMU Social Events offer an opportunity to explore the Rhine-Main region and to get connected with peers from the RMU alliance. In this event, we invite you to partake in a painting session ("Freies Malen") hosted by the Kunstforum of TU Darmstadt. With its open painting space, the Kunstforum provides a place for encounters and togetherness and makes a contribution to maintaining one's health and strengthening one's resilience. 

In free painting, we let ourselves be inspired by colors. We paint spontaneously and intuitively, playing with colors and shapes, everyone stays with themselves and their own paper. Artistic skills or knowledge of special techniques is not required, as the emphasis is on the experience of the painting process and less on the goal of achieving a finished, perfect picture.

Participation is limited to 12 people.

Language: English

Host: Julia Reichelt – Kunstforum TU Darmstadt

Separate registration required. Please fill in the registration form.

Guided Tour at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt

On campus

Social event

12.00 – 13.30 CEST

The RMU Social Events offer an opportunity to explore the Rhine-Main region and to get connected with peers from the RMU alliance. In this event, we invite you to explore one of the landmarks of Darmstadt: the artists' colony and UNESCO World Heritage Site Mathildenhöhe. The Mathildenhöhe area was founded in 1899 to become a focal point of Art Nouveau and European art development. Created with the aim of reforming art and life, the work of the artists' colony expressed the dawn of modernity through experimental architecture, new spatial art and pioneering design. In 2021 it was recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site for its influence in the reform movements of the early 20th century.

A guided tour leads through the colony and the famous wedding tower.

Participation is limited to 25 people.

Language: English

Separate registration required. Please fill in the registration form.

Young Investigator Appreciation Day - Scientific independence: How to achieve it and what to consider 

On campus

Networking event

15.30 - 19.00 CEST

Scientific independence is vital for researchers to get grants approved, to receive scientific awards, to be recognized by the scientific community and to be appointable for professorship. At the 3rd Young Investigator Appreciation Day we will discuss together with Prof. Dr. Jens Braun, full professor at the Department of Physics and DFG liaison officer at TU Darmstadt, and RMU research group leaders of different research disciplines about their experiences on their way of becoming scientifically independent.

Questions such as “What are the main key elements that characterize scientific independence? And what can you do to obtain it and demonstrate it?” will be answered. You are very welcome to pose questions and discuss with our panel guests.

As the Young Investigator Appreciation Day is to honour the excellent work of early career researchers, we will also celebrate the appointment of the Athene Young Investigators, who joined TU Darmstadt’s own independent junior research group leader programme in 2025. 

Afterwards you are invited to network with our guests and participants beyond your research fields and universities during a casual ‘get together’ having some snacks and drinks.

We are looking forward to your participation!

Target group: Junior research group leaders, advanced postdocs, doctoral candidates interested in an academic career

Language: English

Guests:

• Prof. Dr. Jens Braun – Department of Physics and DFG liaison officer, TU Darmstadt
• Dr. Yan-Jie Schnellbach – BMBF Junior Research Group Leader, Department of Physics, TU Darmstadt
• Dr. Pelin Tozman – Athene Young Investigator and ERC Starting Grant, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, TU Darmstadt
• Dr. Anna Wanka – Emmy Noether Group Leader and member of Johanna Quandt Young Academy@Goethe, Department of Educational Sciences, GU Frankfurt
• Dr. Vanessa Zeller – Athene Young Investigator, Research Group Leader, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Darmstadt

Separate registration required. Please fill in the registration form.

RMU Party at Schlosskeller 

On campus 

Social event

19:30 – 21:30 CEST

Join us for an informal get-together at Darmstadt’s Schlosskeller. An evening to make new acquaintances and deepen existing contacts in a pleasant atmosphere. 

The Schlosskeller is an autonomous business of the AStA of the TU Darmstadt and has existed since 1966 as an event space and club in the vaulted cellar of the castle in the middle of Darmstadt. The development, planning and implementation of events is mainly carried out by students.

We ask for your understanding that the costs for drinks are not included in the event. 

For better planning, we kindly ask you to register in advance and fill in the registration form.