MaFo in numbers
600+ Participants
30+ Speaker
30+ Companies
The Mannheim Forum
The Mannheim Forum is an interdisciplinary congress organized mainly by students of the University of Mannheim and with more than 500 participants annually, it is one of the largest student congresses in Germany. Our aim is to offer participants a cross-faculty and cross-departmental platform to enable the exchange between academia, business, politics and society, as well as the students themselves.
Our Speaker
Dr. Ingrid Hengster
As CEO of Barclays Germany, she is responsible for important decisions and business strategy and results as franchise leader.
CEO Barclays Germany und Global Chairman of Investmentbanking
Christian Lindner
As party leader, he led the FDP back into the Bundestag in 2017.
Then FDP-Vorsitzender
Katarina Barley
Katarina Barley has been Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2019. Prior to that, she held several positions in the German federal government, most recently as Federal Minister of Justice.
Vice-President of the European Parliament
Cem Özdemir
He was Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture and Federal Minister of Education and Research. Prior to that, he was the federal chairman of his party.
Then Federal Minister
Our congress concept
At the Mannheim Forum, we offer participants the opportunity to get in touch with high-profile and interesting personalities from science, business, politics and society in panel discussions, debates or keynotes. In addition, in-depth workshops individual content-related aspects are dealt with in a concentrated manner on a small scale. The main events, as well as the in-depth workshops, revolve around an annually determined guiding theme.
In addition, participants can use the Mannheim Forum to get in touch with a variety of our corporate partners via various formats, including workshops, career talks and speed dating. In addition, the Recruiting Fair provides a relaxed atmosphere for exchange.
In addition to the thematic programme items, the opening ceremony and our various evening events, our congress also offers an exciting supporting programme.