The Technical University of Munich (TUM) opened in 1868 as the Neue Polytechnische Schule and has had a site at Freising-Weihenstephan since 1930. Its chronicle says that in the winter semester of 2000/01 its agriculture and horticulture department and its brewing, food technology and dairy science department merged with the forestry department of LMU Munich to form what is now the TUM School of Life Sciences.
The school has more than 90 professors in three research departments on the Weihenstephan campus. Its technology centres include a Plant Technology Center with field crop, greenhouse and forest research units, and an Animal Research Center. The Food and Agro Center for Innovation and Technology (FACIT) is a university incubator for food, agriculture and biotechnology start-ups, run with the TUM Venture Lab Food-Agro-Biotech. The campus also hosts the Hans Eisenmann-Forum, which the university says links its agricultural science chairs and offers a platform for dialogue with agribusiness, and a brewing and food quality research centre that works with industry.