Post by TUM Venture Labs

🌐Deepening the TUM–Boston Partnership The future of climate and energy entrepreneurship education is being built together, not apart. From June 15–18, the team traded Munich for Cambridge & Woods Hole, immersing in conversations that are reshaping how the transatlantic startup #ecosystem collaborates. This included an active involvement in the University Climate & Energy Ventures (UCEV) Summit, alongside 29 institutions and 60 participants from around the world. 💡The UCEV Summit marks a shift from isolated programs to a coordinated global movement in climate and energy entrepreneurship education. The value for early stage #startups is clear: a clearer path from research to venture, stronger founder capability, and earlier access to global partners and infrastructure - the kind of cross-continental collaboration that keeps the whole #climatetech innovation ecosystem moving forward. For the ecosystem, this means: → The Climate/ Circular Lab is deepening exchanges in program design, #AI tools, and mentorship with UCEV institutions, Recursion Works, The Engine, Harvard Innovation Labs and MIT Climate Project / MIT MECHE, growing a lasting transatlantic #founders network. 🙏 Great exchanges throughout the trip with Deepa Rao, PhD (The Engine), Rebekah Emanuel (Harvard i-lab), Michela Grunebaum (Greentown Labs), Liana Frey & Brent Ridley (MIT Climate Project), and Ryan M. Macpherson (Activ8), Jesse Lou, Rosie Keller (Recursion Works) shaped the week's conversations. A special thank you also to Meghan Bader, Ben Soltoff, Tod Hynes, Libby Wayman, and Emily Gilbert for bringing together an inspiring global community of educators and climate innovation leaders.