Snippets of the Network

The Max Weber Program had to cancel its summer party two years in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic. On June 26, 2022 it was finally possible to meet again. Scholarship holders from all over Bavaria accepted the invitation to the Max Weber summer party in the conference hall in Bamberg.

On June 24-26, 2022, the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram “Re­think­ing Envi­ron­ment” host­ed its first inter­na­tional con­fer­ence, “Am­biva­lences of Eco­logi­cal Trans­for­mation,” at the Uni­versi­ty of Augsburg, gath­ering schol­ars in multi­ple pan­els, work­shops, a roundtable, and two key­note speakers.

Elite-Cup is back! This year, 10 teams from vari­ous Elite Net­work pro­grams have visit­ed Mu­nich for an in­tense day of com­peti­tion and fun, which re­sulted in the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram Theo­reti­cal and Mathemat­ical Phys­ics (TMP) tak­ing home the Cup.

Art­ists have made the invis­ible visible for the dou­ble award-win­ning exhi­bition "Pic­turing the Invis­ible". Their work shows the con­se­quences of the great earth­quake disas­ter in east­ern Japan in the Fuku­shima re­gion. In terms of organ­iza­tion and con­tent, the exhi­bition was co-su­pervised by stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram RE­SET.

As part of the Long Night of Sci­ence, 26 stu­dents from the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Inte­grated Im­munology" of­fered an excit­ing jour­ney to dis­cover the im­mune sys­tem on May 21, 2022. Visi­tors young and old en­joyed hands-on sta­tions, in­for­mation post­ers and excit­ing lec­tures.

Alumni of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia met on 12 May for a guid­ed tour of the Mu­nich Syna­gogue on Jak­ob­splatz and the asso­ciated Walk of Re­mem­brance - an even­ing of en­coun­ters and ex­traor­di­nary in­sights.

To max­imize the im­pact of the the­sis, and create value for socie­ty, the TUM En­trepreneuri­al Mas­ter­class (EMC) helps out­stand­ing stu­dents to com­bine their scien­tific excel­lence with entre­pre­neuri­al ambi­tion. A stu­dent’s re­port.

Be­tween 31 March and 1 April 2022 the doc­toral stu­dents of the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram “Re­think­ing Envi­ron­ment - The Envi­ron­men­tal Hu­mani­ties and the Transfor­mation of So­ciety” intro­duced their re­search pro­jects to peers and advi­sors in the first collo­qui­um of the pro­gram. The event took place at LMU Mu­nich and at the Uni­versi­ty of Augsburg.

With the semi­nar, the ex­clu­sive sup­port offers of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia were ex­tend­ed to the school sec­tor. High­ly gifted high school stu­dents can par­tici­pate in se­lected soft skill semi­nars of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia.

Due to the corona pandemic, the Bavarian State Minister of Science Bernd Sibler honored the graduates of the Elite Network of Bavaria at the first digital graduation ceremony.