Oct. 23, 2025
| University
"40 years of the Kustodie - preserving, researching and communicating knowledge": special exhibition shows highlights and unknowns
Since 1985, the Custody of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg has been preserving, documenting and researching twelve collections with around 15,000 objects from the university's 260-year history. With an exhibition at Freudenstein Castle, the Custody shows why these tasks are an essential part of a modern university. Highlights from the collections will be on display, as well as previously unknown objects.
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Oct. 21, 2025
| Study
"Welcome to TUBAF": Ceremonial start of studies for around 1,500 first-year students
The TU Bergakademie Freiberg welcomed its new students on 21 October 2025 with a matriculation ceremony in the Alte Mensa in Freiberg city centre. For the first time, the new TUBAF Rector, Professor Jutta Emes, performed the ceremonial matriculation of the students. Around 1,500 students have enrolled for the 2025/26 winter semester so far. Enrolment is still possible until November.
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Oct. 16, 2025
| University
Ceremonial investiture: Jutta Emes inaugurated as the new rector
On 16 October 2025, Professor Jutta Emes was inaugurated as the new Rector of the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Saxony's Science Minister Sebastian Gemkow presented her with the certificate of appointment at the investiture ceremony in the Alte Mensa hall. With around 360 guests, the hall of the Alte Mensa Freiberg was completely full. A further 100 people followed the event via livestream. Jutta Emes used the ceremony to outline the leitmotif of her term of office in her speech.
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Oct. 10, 2025
| Alumni
Goldenes Diplom: Wie sich das Chemiestudium in 50 Jahren verändert hat
47 Alumnae und Alumni der TUBAF trafen sich am 2. Oktober 2025 an ihrer alten Alma Mater, um ein Wiedersehen 50 Jahre nach ihrem Studienabschluss zu feiern. Organisiert wurde die Zusammenkunft von Maria Pilz, selbst Alumna des Diplomjahrgangs 1975.
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Oct. 7, 2025
| Universität
Neues Leitungsteam der TUBAF gewählt
Der Senat der TU Bergakademie Freiberg hat am 7. Oktober 2025 drei neue Prorektoren gewählt. Dem neuen Leitungsteam um Rektorin Professorin Jutta Emes gehören neben dem Kanzler, Jens Then, ab sofort folgende Personen an: Professorin Swanhild Bernstein als Prorektorin für Lehre, Studium und Lebenslanges Lernen, Professor Martin Bertau als Prorektor für Forschung und Transfer sowie Professorin Karina Sopp als Prorektorin für Nachhaltigkeit und Entrepreneurship.
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Sept. 17, 2025
| Forschung
Im Einsatz: Feuerwehr-App der TUBAF startet in Sachsen-Anhalt
Für die Feuerwehren in Sachsen und Thüringen hat die TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF) bereits eine Einsatz-App entwickelt. Heute gibt Innenministerin Dr. Tamara Zieschang den Startschuss für den Einsatz der Feuerwehr-App in Sachsen-Anhalt. Die App bietet vielseitige Informationen wie Rettungsdatenblätter von Fahrzeugen, eine Gefahrenstoffdatenbank, eine Hydrantenkarte und eine Atemschutzüberwachung der Einsatzkräfte. Alle Feuerwehren können die App auf insgesamt 1.600 vom Land Sachsen-Anhalt finanzierten Tablets ab sofort nutzen.
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Sept. 9, 2025
| Universität
„Die Sonne ist für alle da“ – Photovoltaik-Experte der TUBAF bei neuartigem Diskussionsformat
Wenn es ein Themenfeld gibt, das kontrovers diskutiert wird, dann ist es die Energiewende in Deutschland. Einer, der sich damit wirklich auskennt, ist TUBAF-Forscher Dr. Matthias Müller. Der Photovoltaik-Experte vom Institut für Angewandte Physik wird am kommenden Mittwoch, den 10. September 2025 mit interessierten Teilnehmenden über Solarenergie diskutieren. „Offen für Argumente“ (OfA) heißt die Online-Veranstaltung.
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Sept. 1, 2025
| Universität
Neuer Professor für Bohrtechnik und Bohrungskomplettierung
From TUBAF to industry and back again: Professor Ulf Kirsten is following in the footsteps of Professor Matthias Reich at the Faculty of Geosciences, Geotechnical Engineering, and Mining – known as Germany's only professor of deep drilling technology and active with his own YouTube channel. With the new appointment, the professorship has been renamed the Chair of Drilling Technology and Well Completion. Professor Ulf Kirsten will take up his post at the Institute of Drilling Technology and Fluid Mining on September 1, while Professor Matthias Reich will retire in October.
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July 21, 2025
| University
Professor Jutta Emes appointed Rector of TUBAF
With the appointment by the Saxon Minister of Science Sebastian Gemkow and the handover of the certificate by State Secretary Professor Heike Graßmann on 21 July 2025, Professor Jutta Emes has officially been appointed as the new Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg. She now succeeds Professor Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, who led the university for ten years.
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July 14, 2025
| University
Millions for Central German Startup Factory: "boOst" wins federal lighthouse competition
Entrepreneurial future made in Central Germany: The Central German consortium "boOst Startup Ecosystem gGmbH" is one of ten projects nationwide that was selected as part of the EXIST lighthouse competition "Startup Factories" organised by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE). This was announced by the BMWE at a press conference in Berlin. This outstanding success is associated with millions of euros in funding from the federal government, which will be supplemented by at least the same amount of funding from the project partners from industry.
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