From 16 to 20 March 2026, colleagues from the Institut für Gebirgsmechanik attended an advanced training course at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg on the topic of ‘Salt Chemistry and THEREDA’. The course covered the fundamentals of salt chemistry as they apply to the oceanic salt system.
The 55th Geomechanik-Kolloquium will take place on November 13, 2026, at the TU Bergakademie, hosted by the Chair of Rock and Mountain Mechanics/Rock Engineering at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Konietzky.
The 54th Geomechanik-Kolloquium took place 14 November 2025 in the assembly hall of the New Town Hall of Leipzig.
The Institut für Gebirgsmechanik had invited participants to this long-standing conference, which is organised on an annual rotating basis in collaboration with the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering at TU Bergakademie Freiberg and with the support of the Verein Freiberger Geotechniker.