Snippets of the Network

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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

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.

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.

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.

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.