The number 50, formed in front of the institute building by all MPI-M employees, most of them wearing the black anniversary T-shirt.

Looking Back: Anniversary Events in 2025

50 Years of Climate Research - a milestone in the history of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology! We are delighted that so many people accepted the invitation to our public events and discussed, marveled, and celebrated with us. Here you will find a selection of the highlights of our various anniversary events that we experienced over the past weeks and months together with colleagues, guests, neighbors, and interested parties.

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An orchestra on a stage, dominated by a harp on the left. A large screen on the wall behind the orchestra shows a blue sky with light white clouds and a small red balloon in the center. On the right edge of the picture are 2 people standing to the side of the orchestra, the left one speaking into a microphone.

A man (left) speaks to an audience at a lectern in a lecture room that rises to the right. All rows of seats are occupied. Left in the picture: A lecture slide can be seen on the wall behind the speaker, in the background of the picture 5 windows closed with blinds.

3 people stand in front of a film projected onto a wall on which a satellite image of the Earth can be seen against a black background. The Earth is covered with a net of pentagons, above the Earth are 3 white question marks. The people are looking into the camera.

colorful balloons rise into the blue sky, KI Firefly

2 men stand to the left and right of a large empty glass container, background grey/black, person on the left creates a vacuum in the container using a hand pump, person on the right stabilizes the container with both hands

400 posters in the streets of Hamburg

Group photo of 11 people standing on a street in front of a billboard with the MPI-M's anniversary poster. They are smiling and waving.

Three people pantomiming something on a street in front of a billboard with the MPI-M's anniversary poster: the person on the left, wearing a blue soccer shirt and grey trousers, is about to shoot an orange and white soccer ball that is flying towards them from the right; the person on the right, wearing an orange top, has thrown the ball and is holding their right arm upwards; only the head of the third person can be seen; they appear to be positioned in the middle and closer to the foreground; they are wearing a headset and their mouth is wide open.

View through an event room across the audience from behind to the stage on which an orchestra is playing. In the background, on the wall behind the orchestra hangs a large screen on which 2 large waves on a sea can be seen.

A standing orchestra and 3 people in front of the orchestra receive applause from an audience of which 2 people can be seen from behind in the foreground. In the background of the stage on the wall hangs a large screen on which a green landscape is shown from a bird's eye view.

2 people are talking to each other and looking at each other. Predominantly dark green background.

Vorlesung in einem Hörsaal. Raum steigt zum Kamerastandort hin an. Zuhörer sind von hinten zu sehen. Die vortragende Person steht hinter einem schwarzen Stehpult, blickt ins Publikum, trägt Brille, hält mit der linken Hand ein Mikrofon, hebt den rechten Arm in Kopfhöhe.

3 people are standing next to each other in conversation next to a standing desk, behind a table. In the background, an image of clouds is projected onto a wall directly behind the people.

Lecture in a lecture hall. The room rises towards the camera position. The audience can be seen from behind. The person giving the lecture is barely visible in the center of the image. A bright lecture slide is projected onto the wall in the background.

Exhibition: 50 Years of Climate Research

History of the institute and central questions of climate science: How the institute's research can help to address issues of global warming.

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