* Please note: For all tours a minimum of 15 participants is required. Details are subject to change with or without notice.
Day Tour: Audi AG
Date: Friday, 19 September 09:00 - 16: 00 SOLD OUT
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
The Audi plant in Ingolstadt is not only the company´s biggest production facility, it is alsohome to the Head Office and Technical Development Division. The tasks performed by this division include the development of engines (power units and transmissions), design, electrics/electronics development, body and chassis development, through to the development of the total vehicle. This tour will give you the chance to have a look at Audi´s Wind Tunnel Centre which comprises three test rigs: the aerocoustic, the thermal and the climatic wind tunnel. The tour ends with a visit of the company´s own mobile museum.
Half Day Tour: BMW FIZ
Date: Thursday, 18 September 13:30 - 16:30 SOLD OUT
Date: Friday, 19 September 08:30 - 11:30
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
The BMW Group Research and Innovation Centre (FIZ) was set up in 1986 and was soon recognised as one of the car industry´s most advanced development centres. The complex honeycomb layout was revolutionary at the time and today still fulfils its purpose perfectly. It does not only facilitate communication among associates, butactively encourages such communication through its architectural design - it is "custombuilt for communication". Take this chance to get inside the "technical heart" of BMW.
Day Tour: BMW
Date: Friday, 19 September 10:00 - 17:30
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
This day gives you the chance to take a look behind the scenes of BMW. During a guided tour 
through the BMW World you will receiveexcitinginsights into the companyand learn more about the fascinating architecture of the building.
You will also visit the home plant of the BMW Group and experience livehow the company produces individual cars according to customer requirements with passion and precision. Experience how parts are produced from heavy coils of steel, how they are assembled into a car body and painted. Follow a car on its way to completion, from the wedding of engine and car body to various quality tests.
The tour will be completed with a visit to the BMW Museum.
Half Day Tour: IABG Ottobrunn
Date: 18 September 13:30 - 16:30
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
For more than 45 years IABG has been a leading services and consultancy company active across Europe. IABG offers their customers solutions in the business areas of Automotive, Transport & Environment, Information & Communications, Aeronautics, Space and Defence. As a development partner in the automotive industry, IABG takes on technical qualification tasks and solves problems in the areas of reliability, quality, design and materials. IABG´s service spectrumranges from numerical analysis and experimental tests to the development of individually customised, turnkey test installations, which are also operated. The tour provides a general overview about IABG services for the automotive industry andvisitors can take a lookat the laboratories and get information on the testhouse for mechatronic systems and technical test stands.
Half Day Tour: DLR
Date: Thursday, 18 September 13:00 - 18:00
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
The DLR site at Oberpfaffenhofen is one of Germany´s largest research centres, with eight 
scientific institutes and approximately 1200 employees. The research centre's main fields of activity include participating in space missions, climate research, research and development in the field of Earth observation, developing navigation systems and advanced robotics development.
During the visit to DLR you will get an overall impression about the activities of the centre, take a deeper look at the Robotics laboratory and get the latest information about the European Galileo project. (Picture: DLR)
Half day tour: MAN
Date: Friday, 19 September 12:15 - 16:00
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
MAN Nutzfahrzeuge is one of the leading international providers of commercial vehicles and transport solutionsand builds trucks from 7.5 to 44 tonnes gross vehicle weight, scheduled-service (city and intercity) buses, coaches and bus chassis as well as diesel and natural-gas engines. It is also developing hybrid and fuel-cell drive systems.
The excursion includes the Testing department at the MAN plant in Munich and a visit to the Advance Development department. The diesel-electric hybrid city bus, currently ontrial in Nuremberg and the MAN TGX truck with eye tracker- a recent development in the field of active safety systems for commercial vehicles - will also be presented.
Half Day Tour: TÜV SÜD Automotive
Date: Thursday, 18 September 13:30 - 17:00
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
TÜV SÜD creates increased safety and added economic value. As process partners with comprehensive industry knowledge, our 13.000 employees provide early consultation and continuous guidance, thus achieving the optimization of technology, systems and expertise. Our teams of specialists help you align your automotive product development as closely as possible with your customers' needs. At the competence center in Garching near Munich TÜV SÜD Automotive experts test in such areas as environment and powertrain technology, comfort and driving dynamics, safety and electronics.As innovative service provider of the automotive industry, TÜV SÜD Automotive invites you to participate in a tour through the different test centres: Tire and Wheel Technology, Fuel Systems, Powertrain and Dynamic Chassis Simulator test rig. The DCS test rig is used for suspension dynamics investigations with regard to comfort, driving safety and agility.
Half Day Tour: TU Munich
Date: Friday, 19 September 08:30 - 13:30
Price: 25 EUR (including VAT)
The "Technische Universität München" (TUM) has about 420 professors and 22.000 students 
and is one of Germany´s leading universities.
During the tour you will visit the Department of Mechanical Engineering which is situated inone of the most modern research compounds in Europe and earns about 20 million Euros p.a. in research assignments for the industry.
The Faculty is a member of the distinguished TIME-Program, which supports student exchange between some of the most renowned universities in Europe.