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Külkereskedelmi Bank Rt. (MKB), also held by the Bank, has been a major sponsor
of the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, for more than 15 years. Over the last
years it has also built up a collection of Hungarian art which has enjoyed a great deal
of attention.
Education and science
“The competitive potential of a nation is the education, knowledge and innovative power
of its people. By promoting education and science, we are taking full cognisance of this
fact.”
Since 1992, BayernLB’s commitment to education and science has been crystallised in
its yearly Academic Prize. In this area too, BayernLB is particularly involved in the pro-
motion of regional education facilities. All eleven of Bavaria’s universities are invited
to submit pieces of research. The winners are selected by a specialist jury based on
dissertations and post-doctoral theses dealing with banking topics. In 2004, the main
prizes were awarded to Dr. Jutta Schmidt of Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg for
her piece on “Investment decisions in the equity market – an experimental analysis
of the information and decision-making processes of individual investors”, and to
Dr. Klaus Wolf of the University of Bayreuth, whose dissertation was entitled “Risk
management in the context of value-based company management”. Ten sponsoring
prizes were also awarded.
A further academic prize is conferred by the Landesbank Saar Girozentrale Saarbrücken
(SaarLB), of which BayernLB holds 75.1 percent. At EUR 25,000, this prize is one of the
most generous in the Saarland. In 2004, it was awarded to the bioanalyst Dr. Joachim
Jose for his post-doctoral thesis entitled “Made-to-measure molecules”.
For seven years, BayernLB has been recognising and promoting innovative solutions in
the health care sector with its Clinic Sponsoring Prize. This award is not just limited to
Bavaria, but rather welcomes candidates from all over Germany. Particularly in these
increasingly difficult times for the health care sector, we feel it is important to support
structural change in the clinics. BayernLB thus sees its Clinic Sponsoring Prize as pro-
viding a stimulus for the development of future-oriented concepts. In 2004, the tinni-
tus centre of the Berlin-based Campus Charité Mitte received first prize in the competi-
tion. Using innovative new treatment solutions, and by virtue of an integrated concept
with a dedicated day clinic, this project greatly enhances the quality of life of tinnitus
sufferers. Moreover, it suggest treatment options to patients for everyday use and self-
help.
Together with Schörghuber Stiftung & Co. Holding AG, BayernLB sponsors an endow-
ment professorship for housing construction and development at the Architecture
Department of the University of Technology in Munich.
BayernLB – our company
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