Snippets of the Network

Unter dem Dach des Elitenetzwerks Bayern richtet der Freistaat vier neue Elitestudiengänge ein. Ab 2026 starten sie an der Universität Bayreuth, der JMU, der FAU und der TU München.

As part of the “Alumni öffnen Türen” se­ries, MWP alum­nus Dr. Lud­wig Lenzgeiger of­fered fasci­nating in­sights into Ba­varian poli­tics dur­ing a visit to the State Chan­cel­lery. To­gether with Maja So­phie Klimaschewski, our schol­arship hold­ers en­joyed an even­ing full of insid­er knowledge and inspir­ing ex­change.

With Dr. Jo­han­nes Fran­zen, the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Eth­ics of Tex­tual Cul­tures” ex­plored the ques­tion of why we argue about taste.

Cele­brat­ing its 20th anni­ver­sary, the Max We­ber Pro­gram host­ed a grand reun­ion in Mu­nich: 300 alum­ni gath­ered for an Alumni Day to net­work, rekin­dle mem­ories, and shape ideas for the fu­ture.

The Doc­torate group host­ed its clos­ing con­fer­ence “Shaping the Fu­ture of Busi­ness and Hu­man Rights,” bring­ing to­gether about 60 par­tici­pants to de­bate four key clus­ters cen­tral to cur­rent busi­ness and hu­man rights dis­cussions.

On 30 Sep­tem­ber stu­dents, alum­ni, and pro­ject man­agers from the Uni­versi­ties of Bay­reuth and Würzburg joined 350 guests to look back on nine years of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “MINT-Leh­ramt PLUS” teach­er train­ing pro­gram.

Six alumnae and alumni of the Elite Network will receive the prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2025 and will be supported with up to €1.5 million for their research projects – congratulations!

Peter Kreß, alum­nus of the Max We­ber Pro­gram, re­ports on his ex-pe­rienc­es at the 8th Lindau Meet­ing in Eco­nomic Sci­ences.

Etienne Pablo Dame stud­ies phi­loso­phy and histo­ry at the Uni­versi­ty of Augsburg. From 10 to 17 Au­gust 2025 the Max We­ber Pro­gram schol­arship holder took part in the FANE Field School in New­foundland, Can­ada, and re­ceived sup­port for this from the MWP “Re­search In-Situ” pro­gram.

The exper­iment: Com­bine aspir­ing im­mu­nologists, a love of social me­dia, and scien­tific com­muni­cati­on, and see what hap­pens. - The out­come? The for­mation of a group of dedi­cated stu­dents with a pas­sion for im­muno­logi­cal edu­cation and scien­tific out­reach— intro­duc­ing, the iIm­mune Weekly Writ­ers Club!