Snippets of the Network

The work­shop com­bined digital me­dia, art, and cli­mate pro­tec­tion. Fol­low­ing a walk with PhD stu­dent Pia Wimmer, artist Eva-Maria López intro­duced her app "pa­per-trees." The work­shop con­clud­ed with a panel dis­cussion on urban green­ing.

The Euro­sci­ence Open Fo­rum (ESOF) is a bien­nial in-ter­disci­pli­nary con­fer­ence ex­plor­ing the con­nec­tions be­tween sci­ence and socie­ty. This year’s con­fer­ence took place in Ka­towi­ce, Po­land. Glob­al Change Ecol­ogy Alumna Sabina Khan was one of the Grantees repre­sent­ing the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia.

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.

Stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Sat­ellite Tech­nolo­gy” travel to Ar­menia as part of the ana­log Mars simu­lation AMADEE-24 of the Aus­trian Space Fo­rum (OeWF) to carry out exper­iments with their two ro­bots.

16 doctoral students and 7 PIs from the International Doc-toral Program Photo-Electro Catalysis met for a two-day con-ference. In addition to their own presentations, exciting guest contributions were given by Prof. Dr. Paolo Melchiorre and Dr. Tobias Gärtner.

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.