From June 25 to July 12, 2026, a group of geology students visited Freiberg as part of the 5050 project. The group was accompanied by two instructors, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yevheniia Dementieva and Yelyzaveta Bodriaho, from the Department of Structural Geology at Dnipro Technical University. The on-site phase offered the students the opportunity to gain insights into various fields of research and to explore Saxony’s geoscientific and historical heritage—to this end, various workshops and laboratory visits took place, as well as excursions to the Tharandt Forest, the “Reiche Zeche” mine, the geoscientific and historical collections of TUBAF, and museums in Dresden. The students were able to visit the Freiberg High-Pressure Center, including the blast chamber at the “Reiche Zeche” mine, as well as the virtual paleontological museum at the university library; in the university library’s ScienceLab, they learned how to digitize thin sections and polished sections of mineralogical and petrological samples using a specialized petrographic scanner. As part of the 5050 project, the students worked alongside their German peers to gain hands-on experience with the blowpipe method. The Ukrainian students had already worked with this method in laboratories in Dnipro prior to the visit and introduced their German peers to the workflow using various samples. A short video recorded during the Lab session is available here (coming soon). The blowpipes are artifacts from the historical collections, which were kindly made available for the student experiments by the director of the Kustodie, Dr. Andreas Benz. The visit and the experimental sessions conducted by the students provided a practical foundation for the design of the display cases for the upcoming exhibition.
The mobility was organized by TUBAFdigital and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within the programme “Eastern Partnerships” (Ostpartnerschaften).
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