Snippets of the Network

New research projects and Elite Programs, experiences from seminars and semesters abroad, reports from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and interdisciplinary events – our members write about their lives and the work they love.

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Mar 2023
Going abroad with the Max Weber Program
Stud­ying abroad means great pro­fes­sional as well as per­sonal gain and com­ple­ments do­mes­tic stud­ies in a spe­cial way. That is why the Max We­ber Pro­gram Ba­varia sup­ports its schol­arship hold­ers both finan­cially and non-financial­ly in their plans to study abroad.
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A young woman stands with her back to the viewer in front of a temple with a magnificent curved roof.
24
Feb 2023
A look behind the scenes
Alumni of the Elite Network of Bavaria met on 24 February for a guided tour of the Bavarian National Theatre in Munich to take the proverbial look behind the scenes.
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A group of young people is climbing a magnificent and large staircase.
30
Jan 2023
PhD Workshop on the Zugspitze (Schneefernerhaus)
From 30 to 31 Janu­ary, the PhD group of the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram "Re­think­ing Envi­ron­ment" par­tici­pated in a work­shop in Ger­many’s high­est envi­ron­men­tal re­search sta­tion, the ‘Schneef­erner­haus’. Lo­cated just below the Zug­spitze plat­eau, the for­mer hotel is now a cen­tral insti­tution for cli­mate re­search.
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Several PhD students listening to Dr. Till Rehm with the Zugspitze mountain in the back
21
Jan 2023
Max We­ber Pro­gram cele­brates New Year's Re­cep­tion 2023
Near­ly 300 schol­arship hold­ers and alum­ni gath­ered for the Max We­ber Pro­gram's New Year's Re­cep­tion in the Mu­nich Resi­dence at the end of Janu­ary. The Max We­ber Pro­gram, which is run in coop­era­tion with the Ger­man Aca­demic Scholarship Foun­da­tion, is an im­portant part of the pro­mo­tion of gifted stu­dents in Ba­varia.
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Applauding audience at Max-Joseph-Saal inside Munich Residence
17
Jan 2023
Workshop eat | sustainable | art
Toge­ther with the artist Mar­tin Hab­lesrei­ter the doc­toral stu­dents of the Inter­natio­nal Doc­torate Pro­gram “Rethinking En­vironment” took a closer look at the cultu­ral norms and values that enab­le or limit trans­for­mati­on towa­rds a sustainable food cul­ture.
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A group of students stands in front of the building of the conference center Schloß Blumenthal
07
Dec 2022
Ceremonial farewell for 750 members of the Elite Network of Bavaria
"Turn the hopes placed in you into achievements! ": Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, awards graduation certificates to graduates of the Elite Network of Bavaria in a festive ceremony at Kongress am Park in Augsburg
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12
Nov 2022
The Elite Network of Bavaria welcomes its new members
After two years of break due to the pan­dem­ic, the get-together of the new mem­bers of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia took place again. The event of­fered the stu­dents the op­por­tunity to in­form them­selves about the offers of the Elite Net­work Ba­varia and to get to know each other.
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11
Nov 2022
Stu­dents from the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “The­oreti­cal and Math­emat­ical Phys­ics” pre­pare food from around the world
A ma­jority of stu­dents in the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “The­oreti­cal and Math­emat­ical Phys­ics” come from abroad. In No­vem­ber, they met to cook and share food from their home coun­tries.
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Students help themselves to a buffet with many different dishes.
12
Oct 2022
Our Excursion to ESOC in Darmstadt
Stu­dents and staff of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Sat­ellite Tech­nolo­gy” at the Uni­versi­ty of Würzburg enjoy a guid­ed tour through ESA’s Eu­rope­an Space Oper­ations Cen­ter in Darmstadt.
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Students of the Elite Graduate Program “Satellite Technology” take a group photo in front of the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt.
07
Oct 2022
Digital City Guide “Cold War: Murder in Munich”
Stu­dents of the 18th cohort of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "East Euro­pean Stud­ies" pre­sent­ed their app, which they de­veloped dur­ing the pro­ject course, at a con­fer­ence. It deals with assas­sina­tions car­ried out by East­ern Euro­pean secret ser­vices in Mu­nich dur­ing the Cold War.
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The poster for the presentation of the audio guide, with a photo of the bomb attack on Radio Free Europe in 1981.
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