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Modern materials for the challenges of the future

If you want to take a look into the world of modern materials and manufacturing processes, then you've come to the right place. Become a materials detective and discover how materials are tested for their properties. Get to the bottom of the secrets of modern materials with state-of-the-art research equipment in a real research laboratory! Let yourself be drawn into our enthusiasm for high-tech materials and their production. A modern world needs modern materials - efficient, intelligent and ecologically compatible. And we want to use these materials to shape the world of tomorrow.

What materials are in your smartphone and what makes it so powerful? Why do bridges carry loads weighing tonnes? And what is actually behind the materials that make our future more sustainable and innovative?
Find out - in our Materials Week!
Dive into the fascinating world of materials for a week and discover which materials will shape our future. Whether huge steel girders or tiny nanoparticles - here you can experience at first hand how materials influence our lives!
At the start, you can look forward to an exciting experimental lecture where you can experience science live. In an interactive library rally, you will become a researcher yourself and crack codes to find secret information about materials. You will use the results to produce your own podcast. On our excursions to high-tech companies in the region, you will gain exclusive insights into the industry and learn more about career opportunities after graduation.
In our student laboratory, you can carry out exciting experiments yourself and explore the entire spectrum of materials - from microscopically small to gigantic - in the practical courses on nanotechnology and steel production.
In addition, you will get to know our state-of-the-art technical centres and can talk to professors and students about studying here.
Of course, there's also plenty of fun: you can relax, meet new people and enjoy the campus atmosphere at the joint barbecue evening and the big table tennis tournament.

Developing innovations, attracting talent, securing financing and organising sales - the everyday life of start-ups, SMEs and global players is characterised by numerous exciting challenges. How are decisions actually made in companies? What skills do tomorrow's managers need? And why are some companies simply more successful than others?

The Management Camp will answer these and other questions and offer insights into the world of economics and the work of various professorships in this field. A varied programme with interesting lectures, interactive workshops, tours and much more will show how business works. We cordially invite you to get to know economics better and experience studying at first hand.

The geosphere is the habitat of mankind - rocks, earth, water - almost everything is made of it. Who thinks about the fact that water is the number one foodstuff when brushing their teeth and drinking cola? The sensible and sustainable use of our earth and its geopotential (water, mineral raw materials, energy raw materials) as well as the preservation of the environment are one of the greatest tasks of our century.

And geoscientists, i.e. geologists, geophysicists, mineralogists, geoecologists and geoinformatics specialists are the first to be called upon to do this. You will gain an insight into many areas of work and research in the geosciences degree programmes - in the laboratory, in the mine and on excursions!

As a mining town, Freiberg not only offers numerous interesting treasures above ground. There is a lot for inquisitive scientists to discover and explore underground in particular. During the project week at the Faculty of Geosciences, Geotechnics and Mining, participants will gain exciting insights into various processes and methods for the extraction and processing of mineral resources, the use of specialised machinery and rock and soil mechanics investigations. In addition, answers to questions about various engineering structures such as bridges and tunnels will be discussed. Participation and experimentation are expressly encouraged at our test stands. Practice-oriented excursions and various opportunities to make contact with students and employees are also part of the week's programme.

It's hard to imagine our everyday lives without them - the innovative achievements of engineers in the most diverse areas of our lives. Working closely with industry, they research and develop innovative processes and test new materials at the university. During the technology week, you will gain an insight into the research areas of our scientists and work on a project to produce your own biodiesel for motor vehicles from rapeseed oil, among other things.

The technical programme consists of experiments that are offered at institutes of physics and biosciences during the student university. During the BioNanoTec week, you will experience the possibilities of modern electronics, energy conversion and energy storage as well as biotechnology at first hand in the laboratories of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg at the Faculty of Chemistry, Physics and Biosciences.

You will get to know microorganisms as small production plants for interesting molecules and how strategic elements such as rare earths can be extracted with biomolecules. These are used in today's electronics, for example. You will produce and measure your own small test chip in a modern clean room laboratory. You will delve into the secrets of electrons and light waves, i.e. you will be guided from small light experiments (light decomposition, laser diffraction and holography) to the construction of a laser spectrometer. And you will build your own batteries.

This will bring you into contact with the scientists and allow you to experience first-hand what it means to work together in interdisciplinary research teams. During these days, we will cover everything from biotechnological applications, energy conversion and storage to microelectronic components.

Robots have become an integral part of our daily lives. In various forms, they provide support with daily tasks by carrying out predefined movement sequences or taking on partial tasks completely independently. During Computer Science Week, you will get an overview of how we got to this stage and what the future could look like.

In addition, you will gain an insight into current research projects, such as delivery or swimming robots, and can familiarise yourself with aspects such as the use of microcontrollers or the development of software. In another part, we will use exciting examples to show you the basic principles of artificial intelligence and visualise various scientific data with our HMDs (head-mounted displays) and in our in-house CAVE.

Discover the sustainable world of future energy sources: How are wind and water converted into clean energy, and how can this energy be stored? What other sustainable and renewable energy sources are there? You will learn how wind turbines and water turbines generate electricity, how electricity is converted into gas, and how this gas can become the key to the future of energy. You will also learn about the role heat pumps and geothermal energy play in a sustainable energy system and how they contribute to the efficient use of environmental energy.

Discover modern technologies, learn more about current research, and find out how you can contribute to the energy transition yourself. In exciting lectures, you will first learn the basics, which you can then put into practice and apply directly. Get to know the university and talk to professors and students about studying and life in Freiberg.

For anyone interested in technology, the environment, energy, and the world of tomorrow.