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Freiberg Alumni Network

Welcome to Freiberg Alumni Network.

You have studied, researched, taught or worked at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg? Then you have come to the right place. You are a part of the university and we would like to stay in touch with you. The Freiberg Alumni Network, FAN for short, is the link to your former university.

If you register, you will stay informed, receive regular newsletters and can participate in special alumni events.

The motto of the Freiberg Alumni Network is: We stay in touch!


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News | Dec. 12, 2025

"Strengthening AI skills and optimising processes": Saxon Library Award for Freiberg University Library

The Freiberg University Library has come up with a pioneering idea on how libraries can use artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise processes in their everyday library work. Today (12 December 2025), it will receive the Library Prize 2025 from the Saxon State Minister for Culture and Tourism, Barbara Klepsch, and the Chairman of the Board of the Saxony Library Association, Lars Rohwer. The Freiberg University Library will be using the prize money of 10,000 euros to realise its pioneering idea. In an interview, the head of the library, Dr Julia Meyer, explains the role AI will play in behind -the-scences library processes.  Read more...
News | Dec. 10, 2025

Flowers blasted into steel: New exhibition "Exploded Flowers" at terra mineralia

What remains when a delicate flower on a steel base is exposed to the shock wave of an explosive blast? A new exhibition in the foyer of terra mineralia shows the astonishing results of an unusual series of experiments in the underground laboratory of the Freiberg High-Pressure Research Centre.  Read more...
News | Dec. 9, 2025

Learn more actively, study more resiliently

Whether interactive molecular simulations and visualisations, collaborative English courses or coaching for mental stress: TUBAF students will benefit from new ideas for courses and services from the coming summer semester. The four projects for "Freiräume" in teaching are funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.  Read more...
News | Dec. 9, 2025

TUBAF launches Monopoly Special Edition

The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF) is launching its own Monopoly game. In a limited special edition, players can discover the university in a completely new way - with typical buildings, traditions and characters from university life in Freiberg. This makes TUBAF the only university in Germany to have designed its own special edition of the popular board game.  Read more...
News | Dec. 3, 2025

Between textbooks and a YouTube channel: Questions for Professor Matthias Reich

Germany's only professor of deep drilling technology is just one role of the versatile expert on the liquid treasures of the subsurface: he runs the YouTube channel "Spaß mit Tiefbohrtechnik", is a guitarist in a happy metal band and has written a children's book. Professor Matthias Reich officially retired at the end of September, but will remain in Freiberg - and on YouTube anyway.  Read more...
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