Since 2007, a field internship in the Eastern Alps (12 days) has been carried out under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schulz in the last two weeks of July, immediately after the end of lectures. This GP currently runs under the name GP Regional Geology for BGM students and Great Mineralogical-Petrological GP for MGEO students. Participants from the BGM and MGEO degree programmes are joined by doctoral students and research guests on a case-by-case basis. The topics of the GP are crystalline geology, structural geology, magmatism and metamorphism in the basement of the Alps. Quaternary geology and engineering geology in the Alpine region are also included. The GP is announced in OPAL with a downloadable excursion guide and literature: Link to the OPAL course.

The journey from Freiberg to the two stations of the GP in the Eastern Alps is usually made by hire minibuses. The first stop and accommodation of the GP is in the self-catering house of the AV Wuppertal-Barmen in St. Jakob in Defereggental in East Tyrol/Austria. In this area south of the main Alpine ridge lies the Early Palaeozoic Eastern Alpine basement on the Mesozoic ophiolite series of the former Pennine Ocean. Day hikes are undertaken from St. Jakob in the Defereggen Valley and in the neighbouring valleys. These are mountain hikes on paths in alpine terrain, with ascents of between 400 and 1400 metres in altitude. The tours usually lead above the tree line. There are day tours to the Eastern Alpine-Pennine Sutur in the Virgen Valley, to the Tertiary eclogites of the Tauern Window in the Frosnitz Valley, to the Defereggen-Antholz-Vals shear zone at the Staller Sattel, to the Rieserferner pluton and into the Schober Group to the Cretaceous eclogites.