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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25
Jan 2025
MWP New Year's Reception 2025
About 350 guests at­tend­ed the tradi­tional New Year's recep­tion in Mu­nich at the LMU’s Great Hall in the anni­ver­sary year of the Max We­ber Pro­gram. The festive event kicked off the new annu­al theme "Drive".
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The guests listen to the greeting at the New Year's reception.
21
Jan 2025
Schnee, ferner
The Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram “Um(Welt)Denken” met for inspir­ing soft skills semi­nars at the Schneefernerhaus. This loca­tion pro­vided a unique plat­form for ob­serva­tions of the im­pres­sive moun­tain land­scape. An­ne-So­phie Balzer cap­tured the spe­cial at­mosphere in a poem writ­ten dur­ing her stay there.
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A mountain landscape in winter.
13
Dec 2024
Festive graduation ceremony of the Elite Network of Bavaria
“You’re simp­ly the best” – En­joya­ble cere­mony for the grad­uates of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia in Re­gens­burg, in­clud­ing the presentation of certif­icates and con­gratu­la­tions by Minis­ter of State Blume.
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Festively dressed young people are posing for the camera with doctoral hats and gingerbread hearts.
09
Nov 2024
Get Together of our new members 2024
On 9 No­vem­ber 2024, around 400 new mem­bers had the op­por­tunity to get to know the wide range of offer­ings of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia and to estab­lish first con­tacts at the Get To­gether in the Au­dimax of the TU Mu­nich.
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Members of the Elite Network of Bavaria pose for a selfie.
07
Nov 2024
Guest lecture by Prof. Andreas Kipf
Prof. An­dreas Kipf, grad­uate of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing", gave a lec­ture in the lec­ture series of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram. In his lec­ture, Prof. Kipf pre­sent­ed re­search on using ma­chine learn­ing for data­bases.
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The lecturer, Prof. Kipf, stands in front of the projection of his presentation.
23
Oct 2024
Students from Munich participate in iGEM
A stu­dent group from Mu­nich de­veloped a mo­lecu­lar re­cord­ing tool at the RNA level with a fluo­rescent readout, earn­ing a Gold Medal at the iGEM syn­thetic biolo­gy com­peti­tion, com­peting against over 400 teams worldwide.
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A group of students in front of an iGEM logo at the Paris Expo during 2024 Grand Jamboree.
07
Oct 2024
Start for the new students
The new jour­ney of the sev­enth cohort of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Hu­man Biol­ogy – Prin­ciples of Health and Dis­ease” (MHB) began in Octo­ber 2024 after a highly com­peti­tive ad­mis­sions pro­ce­dure.
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Young people are moving in front of the Biocenter of the LMU Munich.
16
Jul 2024
The Summer Reception of the Bavarian State Parliament 2024
This year's fes­tive recep­tion at Schleißheim Palace once again fo­cuss­ed on volun­tary work. The Elite Net­work of Ba­varia was able to send 10 com­mit­ted mem­bers who en­joyed a won­derful sum­mer even­ing.
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A group of festively dressed people pose for the camera in front of a magnificent staircase.
30
Jun 2024
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2024
Once again this year, Lindau became a Mecca for young researchers, who had the unique opportunity to exchange ideas with the big names in their field - this time in physics. Max Weber scholarship holder Maximilian Lutz was one of the 16 participants invited to Lindau by the Elite Network and reports on his experiences.
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Seven people are sitting in a semi-circle on a stage and are discussing in front of an audience.
22
Jun 2024
MWP summer party in Regensburg
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.
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Group photo of the scholarship holders from above
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