Snippets of the Network

On 27 March 2025, 23 alum­ni and alum­nae of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia partic­ipated in the DGCH Organ Dona­tion Run in Mu­nich's Eng­lish Gar­den. With their com­mit­ment, they have helped raise public awareness of the topic of organ dona­tion.

In­ven­tive­ness and entre­pre­neurship as game changers - that was the motto of this year's Mu­nich Man­age­ment Col­lo­qui­um. The Elite Net­work of Ba­varia en­abled ten mem­bers to take part in Ger­many's larg­est busi­ness con­gress for indus­try and sci­ence.

What is the conductor's test and who has one of the best views in all of Munich? During our look behind the scenes, the theater at Gärtnerplatz in Munich revealed many a secret.

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".

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.