M&T Christmas Party 2024: Impact awards premiere

2024-12-16 The same old thing every year? Not on your life! On 4 December, the School of Management and Technology invited all members to its Christmas party and had a few new additions to the programme.

There is RISE

Prof. Dr. Laura Venz opened the series as the new Vice-Dean and Dean of Research with a witty introduction to the faculty's slogans. In the cosy atmosphere of Lecture Hall 4, Laura Venz invited all M&T members to look back on an exciting year 2024 with the words ‘Come RISE with us!’ RISE, which is an acronym for ‘Responsible’, ‘Interdisciplinary’, ‘Solution-oriented’ and ‘Entrepreneurial’, represents the values of the School.

These values are also reflected in the work of the award-winning faculty. For the first time, the jury presented not only the ‘Research’ and ‘Teaching Award’ but also the ‘Impact Award’, which honours special achievements in the impact of researchers outside the academia bubble. All this year's award winners are listed below.

Awards and standards

Whether in teaching, research or communication, scientists and employees at M&T are constantly setting new standards with their work. To this end, the School has undergone major structural changes in recent years. The combination of Business Administration, Business Information Systems, Engineering and Psychology in the working environment meets international requirements in particular. They underpin the forward-looking and responsible teaching and research at the school, as this year's highlights show:

be it in the context of the international accreditation process with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), in the context of which a three-day review took place in Lueneburg in mid-November, or in the area of important scientific awards.

Prof. Dr. Michael Frese was the first German ever to receive the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research this year, and Prof. Dr. Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich won the ‘Business&Society Best Paper Award’. The Helmholtz Association honoured engineer Dr. Zina Kallien with the doctoral prize in the field of ‘Information’. Dr Laura Fey adds to this list of achievements by receiving the Emerald Literati Award. Furthermore, Prof. Frese and Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli and Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte are among the ‘World's Most Cited 2% scientists’ in the Elsevier Ranking 2023.

Leuphana as a business hotspot

The school also attracted attention on campus when it hosted the conference of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) in March. Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Monika Imschloss, Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen and Prof. Dr. Matthias Wenzel, the Leuphana campus became THE hotspot for business teachers and researchers in Germany. Around 300 participants were welcomed at the School of Management and Technology under the guiding themes of sustainability, digitalisation and entrepreneurship.

Successful fundraising

Laura Venz particularly emphasised the successful fundraising of research projects: Prof. Dr. Ghada Bouattour and Prof. Dr. Michael Gielnik were pleased with the successful applications to the German Academic Exchange Service this year. Prof. Dr. Stefanie Habersang was able to successfully help women found companies with the workshop series ‘EXIST Women ScaleF’ and Prof. Dr. Rainer Lueg and Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte raised various doctoral funds.

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Funk and Prof. Dr. Jens Heger received funding from the European Regional Development Fund, and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Klusemann, Prof. Dr. Oliver Genschow and Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck can be proud of their successful applications to the German Research Foundation.

Press, radio and television

M&T members were also represented in numerous public media, including appearances on the news, on nTV, MDR, ProSieben, Deutschlandfunk and also in the highest-circulation daily newspapers, such as the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or Die Zeit.

In addition to the public media, the School has also expanded its own media work this year: a new Instagram channel provides information about exciting impact stories as well as job postings.

“In particular, we want to evoke the team spirit of the School even more. We want to achieve this through new formats and strong communication for more togetherness, so that we can present the full range of topics of our School in the coming year,” said the Pro-Dean at the end of the event.

The awards of the School of Management and Technology 2024

M&T Teaching Award 2024

  • Dr Suenje Helldorf, Leonie Eising, Dr Sarah Stanske, Lena Kostuj and Lea Jakob in the module ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ (IBAE)
  • Johanne Duesterbeck, Lillan Lommel, Dr Anna Stoeber ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ (IBAE)
  • Lea Jakob for three courses:
    • Seminar on the Art of Improvising with the Ensemble Interactivo de la Habana
    • Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Music and Societal Challenges
    • Zukunftskonzert: Conception for Artistic-Social Projects with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
  • Lillan Lommel for the seminar ‘Workshop and E-Learning Unit on Theories of Gender and Diversity Research’

M&T Research Awards 2024

  • Dr Anna Stoeber for the publication ‘Cultivating dispersed collectivity: How communities between organizations sustain employee activism
  • Camila Caroline de Castro for the publication ’Effect of thermo-mechanical conditions during constrained friction processing on the particle refinement of AM50 Mg-alloy phases’
  • Sophie Bornhoeft and Mario Schuster for the publication ‘Stock price reactions to climate science information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: A mitigation function of corporate and sector emissions responsibility?’
  • Tanja Zwerger for the publication ’Inner loop model predictive control and outer loop PI reference governor for PMSMs with input and state saturation for torque control’
  • Leonie Anika Eising-Mertsch for the publication ‘Frames of systems change in sustainability transformations: Lessons from sociotechnical systems and circular economy case studies’
  • Prof Dr Stefanie Habersang for the publication ‘Advancing Qualitative Meta-Studies (QMS): Current Practices and Reflective Guidelines for Synthesizing Qualitative Research’

M&T Impact Awards 2024

  • Prof. Dr. Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn and Lea Jakob for the Leuphana Concert Lab
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Gielnik, Janina Peschmann and Paul Herrmann for Student Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion (Sustainability)
  • Prof. Dr. Monika Imschloß for Innovative Science Communication
  • Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte for his services to Corporate Sustainability and Responsible Management
  • Prof. Dr. Stefanie Habersang and Carsten Wille for the ‘ScaleF Female Entrepreneurship Program’
At the beginning of December, the School of Management and Technology invited guests to a Christmas party in lecture hall 4 at Leuphana University.
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The new Vice-Dean, Prof. Dr. Laura Venz, hosted the programme.
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Dr Suenje Helldorf, Lea Jakob and Leonie Eising (from left to right) accepted the ‘M&T Teaching Award 2024’ from Prof. Dr. Brit-Maren Block (far right). They were honoured together with Dr. Sarah Stanske and Lena Kostuj, who could not be present.
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Lea Jakob received the ‘M&T Teaching Award 2024’ for three courses from Dean of Studies Prof. Dr. Brit-Maren Block
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Talk with Lea Jakob, Lennart Seitz, Johanne Duesterbeck and Meikel Solimann.
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Johanne Duesterbeck (left) accepts the ‘Teaching Award 2024’ for her joint work with Lillan Lommel and Dr. Anna Stöber (not pictured) from Prof. Dr. Brit-Maren Block (right).
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Camila Caroline de Castro (left) receives the ‘M&T Research Award 2024’ from Prof. Dr. Laura Venz.
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Tabea Bruening and Paul Herrmann in the audience.
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Leonie Eising is delighted to receive the ‘M&T Research Award’ from Prof. Dr. Venz.
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Also - Sophie Bornhoeft and Mario Schuster receive this year's ‘M&T Research Award’.
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Anne Purschwitz, PR and communications manager of the faculty, read the laudatory speeches for the ‘M&T Impact Awards,’ which were presented for the first time in 2024.
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Prof. Dr. Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn and Lea Jakob were honoured with the ‘M&T Impact Prize 2024’ for their ‘Leuphana Concert Lab.’
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Paul Herrmann accepted the ‘M&T Impact Prize 2024’ also on behalf of his colleagues - Prof. Dr. Michael Gielnik, Janina Peschmann. They are continuing the ‘STEP’ programme with a focus on ‘Sustainability’.
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Prof. Dr. Monika Imschloss was nominated for the ‘Impact Award 2024’ because she participates in science slams and also makes science visible outside the university with her own column.
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Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte has gathered an international community of female researchers around the discussion of the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in 2024, thus generating ‘impact’.
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Prof. Dr. Stefanie Habersang co-led a workshop series this year with Carsten Wille from the Cooperation Service. It was aimed at women who want to start their own business and has already shown initial success.
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Dean Prof. Dr. Paul Drews (right) shows Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte (centre) and Prof. Dr. Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn something amusing on his smartphone.
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Rock in the Waves: Dagmar Bruenschwitz (left) and Beate Hackbarth from the Dean's team, and Doerte Zimmermann (far right).
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Anja Ross from the College Dean's office is pleased about the award ceremony.
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Prof. Dr. Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn (left) and Prof. Dr. Weisenfeld in conversation with their colleagues.
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Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli was once again among the ‘World's most cited 2% scientists’ in the researcher ranking of Stanford University (Elsevier).
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