Snippets of the Network

This summer, Lindau once again transformed into a hub for scientific exchange between generations. Under the theme of chemistry, eleven young researchers from the Elite Network of Bavaria had the rare opportunity to engage with Nobel Laureates from around the world.

The Elite Graduate Program Master of Science in Quantitative Economics hosted the Elite-Cup 2025 on the grounds of the central university sports facility on the Olympic campus.

MPP at Lake Ammersee: The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Marianne-Plehn-Program took place in Herrsching from June 13th to June 15th. Over the weekend, 23 scholarship holders came together to exchange ideas, participate in workshops and to visit the Andechs Monastery Brewery.

Fieldwork is al­ways excit­ing be­cause it pro­vides a clear­er un­der­stand­ing of what we are actu­ally re­searching. In April, three PhD stu­dents went to Hintereisferner to ac­quire data for the Junior Re­search Group De­LIGHT Framework.

On 27 March 2025, 23 alum­ni and alum­nae of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia partic­ipated in the DGCH Organ Dona­tion Run in Mu­nich's Eng­lish Gar­den. With their com­mit­ment, they have helped raise public awareness of the topic of organ dona­tion.

In­ven­tive­ness and entre­pre­neurship as game changers - that was the motto of this year's Mu­nich Man­age­ment Col­lo­qui­um. The Elite Net­work of Ba­varia en­abled ten mem­bers to take part in Ger­many's larg­est busi­ness con­gress for indus­try and sci­ence.

What is the conductor's test and who has one of the best views in all of Munich? During our look behind the scenes, the theater at Gärtnerplatz in Munich revealed many a secret.

About 350 guests at­tend­ed the tradi­tional New Year's recep­tion in Mu­nich at the LMU’s Great Hall in the anni­ver­sary year of the Max We­ber Pro­gram. The festive event kicked off the new annu­al theme "Drive".

The Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram “Um(Welt)Denken” met for inspir­ing soft skills semi­nars at the Schneefernerhaus. This loca­tion pro­vided a unique plat­form for ob­serva­tions of the im­pres­sive moun­tain land­scape. An­ne-So­phie Balzer cap­tured the spe­cial at­mosphere in a poem writ­ten dur­ing her stay there.

The MWP Ljubljana Sum­mer Academy of 2024 fo­cused on the Dan­ube region. Guid­ed by Dr. Edit Kirá­ly and Dr. Olivia Spiri­don, participants developed the impressive virtual exhibition "Along the Danube – Between Myths and Moments".