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Freiberg Center for Circular Economy

The TU Bergakademie Freiberg has historically established and grown unique expertise in all areas and aspects of the circular economy. Our roots and our focus as the oldest mining science university in the world have been on the responsible use of raw materials for centuries.
In the Freiberg Center for Circular Economy, you will find the entire expertise of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in the field of circular economy bundled under one roof. We support you in your search for contact persons, project partners and offer you information on all aspects of the circular economy at TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

Contact:

Prof. Simon Glöser-Chahoud 
Professorship of General Business Administration, in particular Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Management
Simon [dot] Gloeser-Chahoud [at] bwl [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de
0049 3731 39 2742
https://blogs.hrz.tu-freiberg.de/fcce/

Prof. Gari Walkowitz 
Professorship for Business Ethics
gari [dot] walkowitz [at] bwl [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de
Schlossplatz 1A, 09599 Freiberg
0049 3731 39 2750
https://blogs.hrz.tu-freiberg.de/fcce/

Doris Geburek 
Research associate at the Chair of Business Ethics
doris [dot] geburek [at] bwl [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de
0049 3731 39 2937
https://blogs.hrz.tu-freiberg.de/fcce/

 

Working groups involved

  • Institute of Processing Machines and Recycling Systems Engineering Prof. Holger Lieberwirth - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
  • Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy and Pure Materials Prof. Alexandros Charitos and Prof. Christiane Scharf - Faculty of Materials Science and Technology
  • Institute of Thermal Process Engineering, Environmental and Natural Materials Process Engineering Prof. Andreas Siegfried Bräuer - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
  • Professorship ABWL, in particular Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Management Prof. Simon Glöser-Chahoud - Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
  • Professorship for Additive Manufacturing Prof. Henning Zeidler - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
  • Professorship of General Economics, in particular Environmental and Resource Economics Prof. Dirk Rübbelke - Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
  • Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering Prof. Dr.- Ing.Martin Gräbner - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
  • Institute of Energy Process and Chemical Engineering - Department of Technology Assessment PD Dr. Roh Pin Lee - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
  • Professorship of Accounting and Controlling Prof. Silvia Rogler - Faculty of Economics
  • Professorship of History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology Prof. Helmuth Albrecht - Faculty of Economics
  • Professorship of Behavioural and Business Ethics Prof. Gari Walkowitz - Faculty of Economics
  • Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mineral ProcessingProf. Urs Peuker - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
  • Institute of Biosciences - Working Group Biohydrometallurgy/ Microbiology Jun.Prof. Sabrina Hedrich - Faculty of Chemistry and Physics
  • Institute of Inorganic Chemistry - Working Group Silicon Chemistry and Chemical Materials Science Prof. Dr Edwin Kroke - Faculty of Chemistry and Physics
  • Institute of Iron and Steel Technology Prof. Olena Volkova - Faculty of Materials Science and Technology
  • Institute of Metal Forming Prof. Ulrich Prahl - Faculty of Materials Science and Technology
  • Institute of Technical Chemistry Prof. Martin Bertau - Faculty of Chemistry and Physics
  • Institute of Glass and Glass Technology Prof. Sindy Fuhrmann - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Process and Energy Technology
  • Institute of Thermal Engineering and Technical Thermodynamics - Professorship of Technical Thermodynamics Prof. Tobias Fieback - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
  • Professorship of Industrial Management Prof. Michael Höck - Faculty of Economics
  • Institute of Ceramics, Refractories and Composites Prof. Christos G. Aneziris - Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering

Activities of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in the field of circular economy (selection)

  1. CircEcon Campus - Under the umbrella of the LeichtbauAllianz Sachsen (LAS), the three technical universities of Chemnitz, Dresden and Freiberg and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (HSZG) intend to design and build a unique European research campus (CircEcon: Green Circular Economy) in Lusatia and operate it as an interdisciplinary research facility
  2. CoBioMetal - The CoBioMetal project focuses on the use of certain types of fungi to reduce toxic metallic water contamination at the nanoscale, using a biotechnological approach to extract critical resources such as palladium, gold or silver from residue water into a valuable product.
  3. DeCarTrans - Demonstrating a Circular Carbon Economy in Transport along the Value Chain
  4. DigiSort - The project deals with the digitalisation of mechanical separation processes in recycling using the example of wind sifting of shredded lithium-ion batteries, which goes far beyond the state of the art through the development and use of new measurement technology and data analysis.
  5. FINEST - In the FINEST project, various streams of fine materials of anthropogenic origin are recorded and investigated. The aim of the investigations is to develop innovative concepts for their processing in order to keep them in circulation and to safely dispose of any remaining residues.
  6. GRK 2802 - Refractory Recycling: A contribution to raw material, energy and climate efficiency in high-temperature processes
  7. KoliBri - The aim of the project is to develop the entire product life cycle of a new cooling concept in the automotive, railway and aviation industries. Novel lightweight structures such as aluminium foams and additively manufactured and galvanised plastic foams are used.
  8. LiFePO-Rec - Recycling of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) with Li-iron-phosphate coating elements (LFP)
  9. ProBaSol - The project aims to implement a novel technology for the production of electrochemical energy storage devices as an alternative to LIBs.
  10. Recycalyse - Recycalyse will mainly focus on two objectives: Develop and manufacture highly active sustainable oxygen evolution catalysts that will reduce or eliminate the use of Critical Raw Materials. Establish a recycling scheme for proton exchange membrane electrolyser catalysts, electrodes and overall systems. By implementing the recovered elements in the new developed catalysts, dependence on materials import in Europe is reduced or avoided, thus reaching a full circular economy.
  11. ReNaRe - Sustainable resource utilisation, sub-project Mechanical processes for electrolyser recycling and material recycling.
  12. SAMSax - aims to enable a sustainable and ecological turnaround in Saxon industry. The real-world laboratory focuses on the recycling of bio-based, natural and industrial waste materials and the reintegration of these into industrial production with the help of additive manufacturing processes.
  13. SteigtUM - The SteigtUM project is developing a mobility system consisting of small electric vehicles suitable for everyday use, an autonomous rental and charging infrastructure and a universal user interface. This will offer the widest possible range of people a cost-effective, easily available and emission-free alternative to cars.
  14. SustainAM - The overarching aim of the project is to utilise locally available, renewable and biocompatible resources (ideally residual materials) for additive manufacturing technologies in conjunction with postgraduate education in order to promote the circular economy and economic growth at the same time.
  15. PyReCA - Energy-efficient pyrolysis for the complete material recycling of CFRP waste; sub-project: Identification and optimisation of process engineering parameters.

Courses on the topic of circular economy

Lehrangebote Kreislaufwirtschaft

Network memberships (selection)

The TU Bergakademie is part of numerous networks and partnerships in the field of circular economy. You can find a selection here.