Geriatronics Summit Summer School 2025
Following the success of the first three Geriatronics Summits, we - the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) of the Technical University of Munich with our cooperation partners from ENSTA Paris, Caritas, the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich (KSH Munich) and the German Museum - invite you to participate in the Geriatronics Summer School from July 7 to 10, 2025 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Summer School 2025 aims to bring together robotics and AI researchers and care professionals to foster collaborative work and address pressing challenges in the care of older people. This year's School places a strong emphasis on collaboration, knowledge sharing and hands-on engagement to foster meaningful interdisciplinary interactions.
Our program offers practical care guidance, insights into key topics and thematic breakout sessions to address critical issues. With a select group of participants, the Summer School aims to initiate impactful research collaborations, stimulate innovative project ideas and develop solutions that improve the autonomy, dignity and quality of life of older people.
Programm-Highlights and Benefits
- Keynotes by Dr. Arash Ajoudani, Prof. Dana Kulic, Dr. Tapomayukh Battacharjee, Prof. Adriana Tapus and others
- Breakout rooms for dynamic discussions and interactive sessions
- Practical and care tutorials: development of practical scenarios for the care of older adults
- Joint project ideas
- Identification of real-life challenges and care scenarios where robotics and AI can be used
- Joint research contributions
- Capacity building and training
- Networking and long-term cooperation
You can download our program for the Summer School here.
You can find more detailed information on our program page.
Registration was possible until June 6
The call for participation is aimed at all master's and doctoral students in the fields of robotics, nursing science, nursing education and similar degree programs, nursing professionals and industry stakeholders.
For your application, please send us a short personal letter of no more than 300 words with information about your field of work, your motivation and your contribution to the Summer School. Please send this to the following e-mail address by June 6, 2025: gsummit(at)mirmi.tum.de
In addition, please register here with your personal data for the event.
The event will take place at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Congress Center, the Geriatronics Research Center and the Caritas Vocational School for Nursing Professions. There is no event fee, participation is free of charge. Only board and lodging are to be paid for the duration of the event.
Advance notice: Geriatronics Summit 2026
The date for the major international conference - the Geriatronics Summit - which takes place every two years, has already been set for 2026: July 6-8, 2026. If you are interested in participating, please sign up for the waiting list here.
Review of the Geriatronics Summit 2024
The world as a guest in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: For the upcoming two-day event of cutting-edge research against an impressive mountain backdrop, this headline was not overstated. The two organizers - the Geriatronics Research Center of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising e.V. - put together an impressive program for the Geriatronics Summit 2024.
For the third time, the successful conference brought together researchers from Bavaria, Germany and around the world from the fields of AI and robotics with care providers and stakeholders in the field of care for older adults and people with disabilities. The aim of all Geriatronics Summits is to share knowledge and experience to enable a better future for us all. Discussions and the exchange of ideas on AI and robotics in healthcare are expressly encouraged. The focus is on how to address the challenges of supporting, caring for and improving the wellbeing of older people in a safe, ethical and trustworthy way. Above all, it is about how geriatronics can improve and support caregivers and the community around the care sector.
For this reason, a special panel discussion on the topic of “Robotics meets Ethics” was organized in collaboration with Caritas in 2024. Here, talk guests from the care sector exchanged views with robotics experts on the pressing issues of our time, which include human-robot interaction as well as the applicability of theories in practice. Another highlight of the event was the presentation of poster awards, which were endowed with 1,000 euros - a generous donation from the Friends of Geriatronics e.V. This was awarded to the work submitted by young researchers, who presented their work to the conference guests and contributed to the discussion.
In addition to the specialist congress, various companies from the technology sector presented their work during the two days and were available to all interested parties for in-depth discussions during the breaks. In this way, the organizers succeeded in bringing together scientific research and industrial applicability.
Get an impression of our conference with this video of the Geriatronics Summit 2024:
