At the New Year's Reception of the TUM School of Life Sciences on January 11, 2021, which this year, unlike usual, was a digital review of the year 2020, the best master theses of the six study areas of the TUM School of Life Sciences were awarded the Prize of the mayor of the City of Freising. This science prize is awarded annually by the city of Freising. Among the prize winners from the academic year 2019/20 was Clara Wagner for the study area of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, who has been a research assistant at the Chair of Economics of Horticulture and Landscaping since submitting her master's thesis. Mrs. Wagner's master thesis dealt with the role of mindsets in succession processes in agricultural and horticultural family businesses. The dean's New Year's address, a greeting, as well as the congratulations of mayor Tobias Eschenbacher.