The Freiberg.Science.City initiative was launched at the Long Night of Science and Industry on May 25, 2024, bringing together people from science, industry and the city to promote Freiberg as a science location - motto: get active together and shape a cosmopolitan, sustainable and future-proof Freiberg!

The Helmholtz Association awarded Dr. Lukas Körber and Dr. Anna Vanderbruggen its doctoral prizes in the fields of mat­ter and energy in Berlin on Monday, April 29. They received the prizes for their outstanding doctoral theses, which they completed at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology at HZDR. In her research approach, Vanderbruggen uses a proven method to return the graphite from used batteries, which has hardly been recycled to date, to the material cycle. Körber's work contributes to a deeper understanding of magnetic spin waves, which are significant for various future ­techno­logies. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros. Additionally, the Helmholtz Association supports stays abroad of up to six months with a monthly grant of 2,000 euros.

On June 25, from 10 am to 3 pm, the career fair ORTE will again take place in the Ulrich-Rülein-von Calw Sports Hall. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology will be represented with a booth. Get informed about entry possibilities and career opportunities. We will have current job offers and will be available to answer your questions about our research portfolio.

Interested in Critical Raw Material­s? An entire week is dedicated to this topic during 19th Freiberg Shortcourse in Economic Geology ‘Critical Raw Material­s: A Global Perspective’ with Judith Kinnaird and Paul Nex, Uni­versity of Witwatersrand, SA, from Dec 9-13th 2024 at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology

One of the challenges confronting our society today is the sustainable use of our resources. The concept of a circular economy, in which products, materials and componen­ts are reused and recycled within a loop, thus generating hardly any waste, is intended to meet this challenge. In order to reco­ver raw materials of all kinds (e.g. rare earth elements) in an energy-efficient and function-preserving way, it is necessary to develop a new generation of adaptive and flexible ­techno­logies and digital platforms for the processing and recycling. FlexiPlant will be a globally unique research infrastructure, to develop and test scientific models, methods and ­techno­logies for the mechanical processing of raw material in a pilot scale. The digitalization and automation of the processing system are required for transferring the processes to industrial scale. As an open transfer platform, FlexiPlant will provide a variety of research and cooperation opportunities for interested partners from academia, industry and society.