  Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) with the CMS and ATLAS
experiments in pp collisions at a centre of mass energy of sqrt(s)=7 TeV at the
LHC are presented. The discussed results are based on data taken in 2011,
making use of integrated luminosities between L=1.1 and 4.9 inv. fb. Various
important theories, encompassing TeV scale gravity, quark/lepton compositeness,
contact interactions, new heavy vector bosons and other exotic signatures are
probed.
