December 2025 became a significant milestone for the academic community of Dnipro University of Technology. Our faculty members returned from intensive and highly productive working visits to TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany) — one of the oldest technical universities in Europe and a strategic partner of our university.

The main goal of the project is to update the content of Ukrainian educational programmes, particularly in technical, environmental and resource engineering fields, and to provide students and academic staff with access to laboratory and methodological facilities that are currently limited due to wartime circumstances. These visits served as a real bridge between modern German laboratories and Ukrainian university classrooms.In December, two expert groups from Dnipro University of Technology visited TU Freiberg.

The first group — from December 8 to 12 — included Serhii Fedoriachenko, Head of the Department of Design, Technical Aesthetics and Design; Oleksandr Dreshpak, Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies; and Dmytro Harkavenko, Assistant of the same department.

The second group — from December 15 to 19 — was represented by Yevhen Koshelenko, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.During their stay in Freiberg, our researchers literally “lived” in the laboratories, preparing original video lectures, adapting European methodologies to Ukrainian educational realities, and conducting applied research within three leading institutes of TU Bergakademie Freiberg. At the Institute of Glass, the team studied the chemical composition of materials and advanced technologies for glass production. The acquired knowledge is planned to be integrated into new educational modules in materials science and design. At the Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mineral Processing, a series of video lectures was recorded, focusing on classification, crushing and mineral processing methods. This unique educational content will soon be incorporated into engineering and environmental technology courses. Particularly relevant research was conducted at the Institute of Thermal-, Environmental- and Resources' Process Engineering (ITUN), where attention was focused on modern water purification methods, including nanofiltration and mixture separation techniques. These topics are critically important for Ukraine in the context of the full-scale war — both for ensuring access to safe drinking water and for exploring ways to extract valuable minerals from contaminated mine water.

All project outcomes — including video materials, methodological developments and research results — will be made openly available to students and academic staff of both universities. This represents another step toward building a new quality of education: modern, research-based and open to the world.

We sincerely thank our colleagues from TU Bergakademie Freiberg for their openness, support and shared mission — preserving and transmitting knowledge even in the most challenging times. Our partnership proves that even in periods of great challenges, it is possible to build the future together, based on science, mutual respect and solidarity.