Educational offerings

As a leading research institution for interdisciplinary materials science, the Freiburg Materials Research Centre (FMF) faces the challenge of ensuring the continuous promotion of young talent. The FMF therefore aims to spark interest in materials science as early as school age and to create an attractive educational and career path leading to research. Networking plays a key role in bringing science, industry and society together.

For pupils
At the FMF, you can experience science up close. Exciting workshops and experiments will give you insights into materials research and show you how science can help shape your future. We invite you to join us in our research and experiments.
For students
The FMF offers you numerous opportunities to apply your knowledge in practice. Whether through internships, theses or exchanges with experts, here you can gain valuable experience in materials science. Make contacts, expand your research skills and become part of an interdisciplinary network!


For educational institutions
The FMF cooperates with schools and other educational providers to make STEM education more practical. Through specialist lectures, experimental activities and joint projects, we give school pupils and students exciting insights into materials science. Let’s work together to bring science to life and promote young talent!
Citizen science
This programme item is aimed at all citizens aged 10 to 99. The FMF invites you to learn about current research topics and actively participate in shaping them. Through lectures, hands-on events and citizen science projects, you will learn how materials research influences our everyday lives and what sustainable solutions it offers for the future.
