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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 on Sat­urday, No­vem­ber 12, 2022. 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.

At the be­gin­ning of the event, Min­isteri­al­rätin Beate Lind­ner, head of the of­fice, greet­ed the new mem­bers and wel­comed them to the elite net­work. She gave them a brief over­view of the histo­ry and objec­tives of the elite net­work and the vari­ous fund­ing pro­grams. Cur­rent­ly, the net­work sup­ports over 3500 active mem­bers in the Max We­ber Pro­gram, in 31 Elite Grad­uate Pro­grams, in the Mari­an­ne-Plehn-Pro­gram, in seven Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­grams and in seven Junior Re­search Groups. In addi­tion, there are now more than 11,000 alum­ni.

Subse­quently, the new­com­ers were given vivid first-hand in­sights into the many op­por­tuni­ties of­fered by the elite net­work out­side of their stud­ies. Vari­ous events and pro­jects ena­ble a lively coop­era­tion and pro­mote per­sonal­ity de­velopment. Members en­thusi­as­tical­ly re­port­ed on their inter­esting expe­rienc­es at the Acad­emy for Polit­ical Edu­cation in Tutz­ing, at the Nobel Lau­reate Meet­ing in Lindau and at the Euro­Sci­ence Open Fo­rum in Lei­den. The EliteCup, the soft skill semi­nars, the grad­uation cere­mony and the intra­net were also the sub­ject of enter­taining and in­form­ative presenta­tions.

After a break with coffee and cake, the stu­dents and about 50 alum­ni lis­tened to two key­note speeches on the topic of "Ca­reers in Sci­ence and Busi­ness" in the sec­ond part of the event. Prof. Dr. Gor­don Cheng, head of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Neu­roen­gi­neer­ing", and Dr. Melanie Langermei­er, qbi­lon GmbH, alum­na of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Software Engi­neer­ing”, spoke very vivid­ly about their in­spir­ing aca­demic and pro­fes­sional ca­reers. Fol­low­ing the presenta­tions, the stu­dents took the wel­come op­por­tunity to per­sonal­ly ask the two speakers ques­tions.

At the sub­se­quent buffet din­ner, many new con­tacts were made and exist­ing ones deep­ened. The event ended in a pleas­ant at­mosphere with mu­sic.

Text: Coordination Office of the Elite Network of Bavaria