Building bridges – that was an important message at this year's Max Planck Alumni Symposium at the Harnack House in Berlin from June 30th to July 1st, which was open to Alumni of the Minerva Foundation for the first time.
In a keynote speech, Managing Director Ulman Lindenberger recounted the Minerva Foundation's beginnings in 1959, when a delegation from the Max Planck Society travelled to Israel, and described the development of a successful German-Israeli cooperation that is still supported by three pillars today: the Minerva Fellowship Programme, the Minerva Weizmann Programme and the Minerva Center Programme.