Dec. 12, 2025
| Universität
"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.
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Dec. 10, 2025
| Event
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.
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Dec. 9, 2025
| Universität
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.
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Dec. 9, 2025
| Study
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.
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Dec. 3, 2025
| Alumni
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.
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Dec. 2, 2025
| Stiften & Fördern
"Einer der aktivsten Universitätsfördervereine in Sachsen"
Der Freunde und Förderer der TU Bergakademie Freiberg e.V. (VFF) hat am 28. November 2025 seine jährliche Mitgliederversammlung abgehalten – und dabei erneut gezeigt, welche wichtige Rolle der Verein für die Entwicklung der Universität spielt. Rund 150 Mitglieder kamen zusammen, bestätigten den geprüften Jahresbericht 2024, entlasteten den Vorstand und verabschiedeten das Budget für 2026.
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Nov. 8, 2025
| Alumni
TUBAF celebrates graduates, doctoral and post-doctoral graduates
553 graduates and 79 doctoral and post-doctoral graduates are saying goodbye to TU Bergakademie Freiberg this year. More than 200 of them will celebrate their academic degrees on 8 November in the Alte Mensa in Freiberg city centre. The most common degrees are in engineering, natural sciences and economics. With their knowledge, graduates and postgraduates are sought-after specialists for global challenges.
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Oct. 30, 2025
| Research
Fermentation residues from biogas plants to become green chemicals
In the innovation alliance biogeniV, TU Bergakademie Freiberg is working with partners to research a new process for converting regionally available residual materials, such as fermentation residues from biogas plants, into green chemicals based on methanol. Two new research projects have been launched as part of the "WIR! - Innovation and Structural Change" programme with funding approval from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space: the "Residue drying" project and the "Residue gasification" project. The innovation alliance biogeniV is coordinated by the Hanseatic city of Anklam.
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Oct. 28, 2025
| University
Special honour for exceptional commitment
The University Medal is one of the highest honours awarded by TU Bergakademie Freiberg to members of the university. Today (28 October 2025), the university awarded this honour to Professor Carsten Drebenstedt.
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Oct. 27, 2025
| Friends & Sponsors
Exceptional commitment to the Alma Mater Fribergensis: Doris and Hans-Joachim Jagnow establish endowment fund
Alumnus of the Bergakademie Dr Hans-Joachim Jagnow and his wife would like to contribute to research funding, particularly for future energy supply, with a foundation. The engineer studied at Freiberg University from 1955 to 1960. He has remained connected to his educational institution to this day and is now making a generous donation to the university foundation. The new "Doris und Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Jagnow-Stiftungsfonds" will be administered by the "Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg" foundation and will be used primarily for innovative research approaches in energy process engineering.
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