A call for those who don’t just fill gaps – but explore them.

We are influenced, distorted, steered, or even shaped by gaps.
Between knowledge and application.
Between technology and society.
Between expression and analysis.
Between access and exclusion.
Between shared ground and misunderstood difference.  
Between systems, disciplines, and ways of thinking.

Gaps can feel like friction – or potential.
They can mark boundaries – or open up new spaces.
 

“MIND THE GAP” is an interdisciplinary call inviting you to engage with these in-between zones. Not only as technical or social problems, but as questions that hold the power to shift perspective.

Whether you’re researching, designing, coding, performing, composing, building or reflecting – we’re looking for contributions that make gaps visible without rushing to close them. Projects that can’t be confined to a single field. Ideas that take ambiguity seriously.

Because where things don’t fit (yet), something new might just begin.

To mind the gap is more than just observing – it’s to take a stance.
It's a stance that invites dialogue, risk, complexity, and change.

I invite you to formulate an essay / create a video as part of your application for a scholarship place in the #class26 of the TUM: Junge Akademie that elaborates on a topic of your choice that aligns the call "MIND THE GAP!". 

We eagerly await your thoughts on “Mind the Gap”, submitted as part of your TUMJA #class26 application.

Yours sincerely