Events

After two years of digital excursions, the MAP Office offered an in-person excursion to Zollhof Tech Incubator on 9 December 2022. As a start-up hub, Zollhof is an expert in innovation and idea development. The excursion was planned to introduce students to the concept of innovation, creativity, as ...

The MAP Pretzel Talk is a series of irregular extra-curricular career and research-related events for MAP students. Accomplished MAP alumni Dr. Kasra Sardashti hosted such a talk while on a visit to Erlangen on Monday 5 December 2022. Dr. Sardashti, who proudly describes himself as an American, I...

As a traditional MAP event, the annual MAP Alumni Round Table offers MAP students a valuable opportunity to network with MAP alumni. Despite the Corona pandemic, we were pleased to hold the alumni round table offline again on 12 July 2022. During this event, several MAP alumni shared their current c...

After a hiatus of a few years, the ENB Elite Cup had returned to Munich on 11 June 2022, to the excitement of many students! This year multiple batches of MAP students joined together with the goal of having fun but still competing hard. Although it was difficult to coordinate practice with the enti...

One week after the 71st Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to chemistry in Lindau (June 26th to July 1st 2022), I am still overwhelmed by the experience. Being among about 600 young scientists without tenure, who were invited to join the arguably most brilliant gathering of scientists in the field of ...

Building works at FAU are progressing: Two prominent guests, science minister Markus Blume and Minister of the Interior Joachim Hermann, came to FAU Campus Erlangen (South) to attend the ground-breaking ceremony for two new lecture hall buildings for the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sci...

Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) is a Europe-wide association of engineering students, with 88 Local BEST Groups in 31 countries. Every year, BEST organizes the European BEST Engineering Competition (EBEC) with the aim of giving students the opportunity to apply both their theoretical...

Several MAP first semester students attended a four-day intensive lab course hosted by the Chair of Process Biotechnology at one of MAP's partner universities, the University of Bayreuth. Travel and accommodations at a youth hostel within a 10-minute walk from the lab were funded by MAP Office. ...

Up to 100 Students, lecturers, researchers, MAP staff and guests gathered to explore and discuss 27 high quality posters from the 2020 batch of students.

The annual MAP Alumni Round Table has almost become a tradition to give current MAP students more insights into the future professional world. In addition to online excursions to various companies in 2020 and 2021, the MAP Alumni Round Table on 1 July 2021 offered an important addition to the curren...