MLP

The financial services provider MLP has been the main partner of the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival since 2013, alongside building materials manufacturer Heidelberg Materials, pharmaceutical company Octapharma and software group SAP. Together with CEO Dr. Uwe Schroeder-Wildberg, the company has repeatedly developed inspiring formats in recent years, such as the MLP Late Night Lounge as a low-threshold concert offer or a Beethoven flash mob at the University of Heidelberg, which has achieved great media attention with 4.3 million clicks on YouTube to date.

Honors Program

Since its first cohort in 2023/24, the Honors Program at the University of Mannheim, headed by Prof. Oliver Spalt, has been supporting 25 to 30 selected, outstanding business administration students with the aim of supporting tomorrow's managers today and laying the foundations for responsible action. Through creative impulses and meetings with personalities from the business world, the scholarship holders are given the opportunity to network and face new challenges together. Konstantin Adamopoulous, long-time curator of the Bronnbach Scholarship (Kulturkreis Scholarship since 2025), is responsible for the content of the program.

This year, the project focused thematically on the exchange of ideas about the design of classical concerts with the aim of broad cultural participation as well as on the examination of the motto of the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival 2025 "Liberated Time".

The program included workshops, a visit to a festival concert and a direct exchange with artistic director Thorsten Schmidt. The participants also visited MLP's company headquarters and met the Chairman of the Executive Board, Dr. Uwe Schroeder-Wildberg, for a discussion.