Private foundation makes it possible

1 Blick in das Auditorium in der „Alten Mensa“ der TU Bergakademie Freiberg • View of the auditorium in the “Alten Mensa” at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology

2 Das für die Betreuung der Doktoranden berufene Professorenkollegium • The professors appointed to supervise the post-graduate candidates

3 Überreichung der Ernennungsurkunde durch Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Stelter (rechts) und Frau Erika Krüger an Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Schlömann als Sprecher des BHMZ und Koordinator des Promotionskollegs • Presentation of the certificate of appointment by Prof. Dr rer. nat. Michael Stelter (right) and Mrs Erika Krüger to Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Schlömann as spokesman of the BHMZ and coordinator of the post-graduate school

On 08.05.13, in the presence of Mrs Erika Krüger, Chairperson of the Dr.-Erich-Krüger Foundation, Prof. Dr Michael Stelter, Prorector for Research at TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TU BAF), welcomed around 120 guests to the ceremony marking the inauguration and establishment of the Biohydrometallurgical Center for Strategic Elements (BHMZ) as a new post-graduate school (Fig. 1). At this school 13 post-graduate students and their supervisors will be funded for five years with around € 6 mill. by the above-mentioned Foundation (Fig. 2). This is the biggest private foundation at a public university in...

The President of the Technischen Hochschule Georg Agricola (THGA), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kretschmann, has taken over presidency of the Society of Mining Professors/Societät der Bergbaukunde (SOMP),...

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