Content and Objectives
According to the OVMF Vision, professional and social skills form the core of excellence. This program includes events on specific topics and the promotion of strong leadership personalities through leadership seminars and in-house projects.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
PUBLIC LECTURE PROGRAMME
WORKSHOPS
PRACTICE TALKS
LEADERSHIP & COACHING
ALUMNI NETWORK & ALUMNI MENTORING
WELCOMING, EVENTS & PROJECTS
Promote leadership
Develop personalities
Expand knowledge
Contributions from internationally renowned experts from the fields of construction, urban planning, ecology, sustainability and climate science, and related topics.
Guest scientists pass on their know-how and serve as mentors.
Experts report from practice and answer questions.
Certified Trainers conduct: Character Progressions, Cross-Cultural Communication and Career Coachings.
Former scholarship holders give tips for career planning.
An International Community, a wide range of Project Teams: Alumni, Mentoring, Sports, Social Media Club, Library, Caring and Sustainability and many more.
SUSTAINABILITY TEAM
Excursion to the Rooftop Renovation of the Frank company
Inspiring Mentors, Coaches and fellow Scholarship Holders endorsed me to set goals, higher than I thought possible.
MAX HORLEBEIN Civil engineer
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Pausing for thought together with musical accompaniment
WELCOME EXCURSION IN THE SUMMER SEMESTER At the Olympic Stadium
THE TEAM OF THE FORUM
Dalibor Saula, Ir. Isabelle Krier Michaeli, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Nübel, (ex Director) Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Lang, Konstantin Wittek
Oskar von Miller Forum
Shaping the future Stimulating transformation processes
Sharing knowledge
Construction plays a central role in addressing societal challenges. With its public programme of events, the Oskar von Miller Forum stimulates discussion and is a meeting place for the construction industry. At the same time, it supports future civil and environmental engineers, architects and construction technicians with a programme scholarship.
Preview
LECTURES 2025/26
16.10.2025 BEAT AEBERHARD | KANTON BASEL- STADT | BASEL
20.11.2025
Urban Shift through active Governance
PETER BRÜCKNER | BRÜCKNER & BRÜCKNER
ARCHITEKTEN | WÜRZBURG
Roots and Wings
04.12.2025 LI AN PHOA | DRINKABLE RIVERS FOUNDATION
AMSTERDAM
Drinkable Rivers: our compass
15.01.2026
29.01.2026
KNUT GOEPPERT | SCHLAICH BERGERMANN
PARTNER | STUTTGART
Built infrastructure – building culture
MARTHA TZIGKARI | FOSTER + PARTNERS | LONDON
Emerging Technologies and Design
LECTURES 2024/25
17.10.2024 ›
LAURENT NEY
Ney & Partners, Brussels
Context and design – an integral approach
16.01.2025 ›
CATHERINE DE WOLF
ETH Zurich
Digital creativity for circular construction
26.06.2025 ›
ROGER BOLTSHAUSER
Roger Boltshauser Architekten, Zurich
Power of constraint
07.11.2024 ›
URSULA MÜNCH
Academy for Political Education, Tutzing Politics in times of crises
23.01.2025 ›
JOYEETA GUPTA
University of Amsterdam
Sharing our earth: focus on climate
10.07.2025 ›
KAREN SCRIVENER
EPFL , Lausanne
Realistic Strategies for Decarbonising
Construction
Videos of the lectures partly on ovmf.de
21.11.2024 ›
MARKUS STENGER Stenger2 Architekten, Munich
Architecture for the non-place
22.05.2025 ›
CAROLINE NAGEL Cobe, Copenhagen
Copenhagen and Beyond – Extraordinary everyday
28.11.2024 ›
MIKE TAYLOR
Hopkins Architects, London
Creative architecture
05.06.2025 › THOMAS BECK
A.K.A. Ingenieure, Munich
What do you mean, it can’t be done?
Structural engineering for unusual buildings
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The Purpose of Education
SUMMER PARTY AND ANNIVERSARY
We celebrated the farewell of Prof. Werner Lang and the succession to the new Director Prof. Konrad Nübel.
Visionairies and Unsung Heroes
SUMMER PARTY 2025
EX DIRECTOR PROF. WERNER LANG & CHAIRMAN UKB
THOMAS SCHMID
Celebratory Festivities closing the academic year
DIRECTOR
Quote by ex Director Prof. Werner Lang
Award Winners
AWARDS IN 2024/25
MAX PEETZ
UNIVERSITY PRIZE OF THE BAVARIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY 2024 – SPECIAL PRIZE IN THE CATEGORY COMPUTER-BASED MODELING AND MANUFACTURING
PAUL TUCH
TUM FACULTY PRICE DOCE ET DELECTA
ANA EUGENIA MENÉNDEZ ORELLANA
“BEST PRESENTATION AWARD“, DFBI 2025 CONFERENCE AT TU DELFT FOR MY PRESENTATION ON “PREDICTIVE PROBABILITY OF DETECTION CURVES FOR CONCRETE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH ASSESSMENT USING THE REBOUND HAMMER TEST“
STEFAN BECHERER
PRICE OF CONCRETE AND MASONRY STRUCTURES
CHRISTINA ARNOLD
3RD PRICE OF THE WA-AWARD OF 2025
THE OSKAR VON MILLER FORUM is an independent educational institution of the Bavarian Construction Industry.
Bavarian Construction Industry Association (BBIV) Association of Building Companies in Bavaria Association of Carpenters and Timber Construction Companies in Bavaria (VZHB)
Industrial Trade Union Building – Agriculture – Environment (IG BAU)
Photos © Astrid Eckert, Isabel Mühlhaus
CONTACT
OSKAR VON MILLER FORUM Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 25 80333 Munich
T +49 89 1588338-0
E info @ ovmf.de | W www.ovmf.de
AS AN INTERNATIONALLY AND INTERDISCIPLINARILY
educational institution of the Bavarian construction industry, the Oskar von Miller Forum supports and promotes the education of
» students of the Departments of Architecture and Civil & Environmental Engineering at the TUM School of Engineering and Design of the Technical University of Munich
» students of the Faculties of Architecture and Civil Engineeri ng at the Munich University of Applied Sciences
» students of Munich’s vocational institute for construction technologies.
They are supported with a programme scholarship and can apply for a place to live.
With public lectures by internationally renowned civil engineers, architects and scientists, the Oskar von Miller Forum promotes future-oriented topics such as sustainability and transformation in construction. At the same time, it serves as a central meeting place for the construction industry.
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The forum exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to grow, connect, and be part of an inspiring community in the construction industry.
ALICE FLEURY Architecture / RNB
STUDIENRICHTUNG
PROJECT SPONSORS
Bavarian Construction Industry
Bavarian Construction Industry Association (BBIV) Association of Building Companies in Bavaria Association of Carpenters and Timber Construction Companies in Bavaria (VZHB) Industrial Trade Union Building – Agriculture – Environment (IG BAU)
OWNERS AND OPERATORS
The Oskar von Miller Forum is operated by the Bavarian Construction Industry Foundation (Stiftung Bayerisches Baugewerbe). The building is owned by Gemeinnützige Urlaubskasse des Bayerischen Baugewerbes e. V.. Members are the above-mentioned collective agreement parties of the Bavarian Construction Industry.
The full programme as well as further information about the Oskar von Miller Forum on www.ovmf.de