Snippets of the Network

In the morn­ing, the pro­gramme in­clud­ed a key­note speech on the MWP's an­nual theme of ‘Re­nun­cia­tion’, while in the after­noon, the Re­gens­burg schol­arship hold­ers invit­ed eve­ryone to take part in many dif­ferent ac­tivi­ties: from mind­ful­ness work­shops and hikes to a Wal­halla ascent and his­tor­ical city and mu­seum tours.

In 2024, numerous network members met again for a sporting competition as part of the traditional Elite Cup, this time in Regensburg.

Come rain or shine, over 20 mem­bers of the Mari­an­ne-Plehn-Pro­gram gath­ered in Augsburg for a week­end filled with work­shops, net­work­ing, and cul­tural activi­ties.

With over 15,000 members, the Elite Network can look back on 20 years of successful support for talented academics in Bavaria.

Stu­dents and pro­fes­sors of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Mac­romo­lecu­lar Sci­ence” visit­ed the Neue Mate­rialien Bay­reuth GmbH (NMB). The re­search insti­tute is known for its inno­vative power in the field of mate­rials re­search and pro­cess de­velopment. The stu­dents were able to gain an im­pres­sion of the top­ics, the ap­proach and the prepa­ration of com­po­nents on an indus­trial scale on site.

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Ba­varian Grad­uate School of Com­puta­tional Engi­neer­ing” con­tinues its yearly open­ing week­end for 2024; we wel­come the in­com­ing batch of stu­dents. The schedule in­cludes team-building and shared ex­peri­ences from the sen­iors and alum­ni.

The “Mu­nich Man­age­ment Col­loqui­um” (MMK) is Ger­many's larg­est busi­ness con­gress. The Elite Net­work of Ba­varia ena­bled a total of ten mem­bers to partic­ipate free of charge in this top-class event, which took place from 5 to 6 March 2024 in the Au­dimax of the Tech­nical Uni­versi­ty of Mu­nich.

MWP alum­na Nora Kory stud­ied bio­chem­istry at LMU Mu­nich and spent nine months at the Whitehead Insti­tute for Bio­medi­cal Re­search/Massachu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nolo­gy (MIT) for her mas­ter's thesis. To­day, the 38-ye­ar-old heads her own inde­pen­dent re­search group at the Har­vard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and en­courages young re­searchers to try new things and be cou­ra­geous.

Almost 300 guests came to Munich for the traditional New Year's Reception of the Max Weber Program (MWP) to celebrate together in the Great Hall of LMU Munich. The keynote speech on the topic of "Renunciation" was the kick-off for the new MWP theme for the year.

What new find­ings are there in the field of exper­imental re­search, acute treat­ment, pre­ven­tion and after­care for stroke? These ques­tions were dis­cuss­ed by speakers from vari­ous disci­plines at the Ru­dolf Vir­chow Cen­tre in Würzburg as part of the Win­ter School of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Translational Medi­cine”.