Snippets of the Network

As part of the "Ex­tra­cur­ricu­lar Learning Sites" semi­nar of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “MINT-Leh­ramt PLUS”, stu­dents inves­tigat­ed how well nature and sus­taina­bility can be taught in extra­cur­ricu­lar learn­ing sites dur­ing a field trip to northern Ger­many.

The PhDs of the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram "Re­think­ing En­vi­ron­ment" were intro­duced to Augsburg aquat­ic ecol­ogy, Astri­da Nei­mani's phe­no­me­nolo­gy, and the func­tions of water as a food, re­source, and natu­ral ele­ment.

Pro­fes­sors and Mas­ter stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Global Change Ecol­ogy“ at the Uni­versi­ty of Bay­reuth par­tici­pated in the week-long IP­BES 9 meet­ing in Bonn - either as ob­serv­ers of the con­fer­ence or as vol­un­teers with the IP­BES secre­tariat - and took part in dis­cussion on nu­mer­ous top­ics.

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.