2025 ECerS - FIRE Summer School - Social Programme

The Social Programme of the 2025 ECerS-FIRE Summer School is included in the registration fees and will be organised as follow:

• Thursday 28th August: Summer School Dinner in the evening
• Saturday 30th August: Visits in Freiberg

VISIT TO FREIBERG

The 2025 ECerS-FIRE Summer School will  be followed by a trip to Freiberg on Saturday 30th August 2025 (included in the Registration fee):

• 8:00-9:00 - Bus to Freiberg
• 9:00-12:00 - Visit of the University TU BA Freiberg
  
• 12:00-14:00 - Lunch
  
• 14:00-14:30 - Transfer to the next activity
• 14:30-17:00 - Visit of the Freiberg Silver Mine OR of the Terra Mineralia Exhibition
• 17:00-18:00 - Bus back to Dresden

University TU BA Freiberg

Guided Tour through the Institute of Ceramics, Refractories and Compound Materials, the Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, the Center for Efficient High-Temperature Processes and Materials Conversion and the new University Library.

Freiberg Silver Mine

This is where the underground heart of Saxony’s silver town beats. For more than eight centuries, the Freiberg mining district was an important centre of mining and Saxony’s most important supplier of silver. The „Himmelfahrt Fundgrube“ with the „Reiche Zeche“ was once one of the most advanced mines in Europe. We invite you! Experience and discover – equipped like a real miner – the depths of the mountain. The hoist takes you down to a depth of 150 metres, where you will be guided on various tours through the fascinating underground world.

Explore the traces of mining from the Medival period and up to the present. Our „silver mine“ is part of the research and teaching mine of the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. You are not visiting a historical exhibition site, but a real mine that is still used in a variety of ways today. Where miners once dug silver, students and scientists now research and teach.

This visit is limited to 70 participants.

Please note that unfortunately, there are some restrictions concerning the visitors for which a visit of the mine is NOT possible:

• Pregnant women
• Persons with mobility aids
• Persons with heart and/or circulatory problems
• Persons showing epileptic seizures
• Persons having a disabled person's pass
• Persons under influence of drugs/alcohol
• Persons older than 75 years – depending on the chosen tour length

More information on the Silver Mine available here: https://www.silberbergwerk-freiberg.de/welcome/ 

Terra Mineralia Exhibition

The terra mineralia exhibition is a central institution of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. It is a scientific teaching collection that serves the education of students and research.

In 2004, Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher transferred part of her private collection to the "Pohl-Ströher Mineral Foundation" and made it available to the TU Bergakademie Freiberg on permanent loan. This resulted in two exhibitions at the university: the terra mineralia in Freudenstein Castle and the Mineralogical Collection Germany in the Krügerhaus. Together with the historically grown Mineralogical Collection in the Abraham-Gottlob-Wernerbau, the TU Bergakademie Freiberg now has the largest mineralogical exhibition complex in the world.

More information about Terra Mineralia available here: https://www.terra-mineralia.de/de