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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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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