Sixty children were looking in awe at those ten weird persons, dressed in white robes and strange glasses: Were these aliens invading their kindergarten Auf dem Backenberg (Bochum) on that morning of the 11th of October? The reality, they were about to discover, was more down to Earth than that, but fascinating nonetheless.

We, the men and women in white, were chemists of the JungChemikerForum…

On 18th of November Dr. Danijel Borosa from Borosa Acoustic Levitation invited to the afternoon workshop "From the idea to a marketable product - how to found a start-up company". He explained how a production and design process works and showed different prototypes and the marketable product.

There’s a cable car parked in the middle of a room, and a wall covered with radios. Switches, electricity generators and coils? There are so many of them that one expects Nikola Tesla to appear every second. Then, nearby a generator, there’s a table with colored chemical solutions. And in another room appear huge modules, similar to oversized overnight bags wide-open, portraying persons in space…

On 14th and 15th of September 2016 the ECRs organized an excursion to the SOLEIL synchrotron in Paris, France. 12 participants learned about the beamlines and measurements carried out at SOLEIL.

On 12th of September 2016 TranSOLV is organising an excursion to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-grade flat steel. With around 27,000 employees, this company supplies high-quality steel products for innovative and demanding applications in a wide range of industries, including the automotive industry, machinery and plant…

On the 20^th of April 2016 RESOLV organized a captivating excursion to Bayer HealthCare in Wuppertal. It was a great opportunity for us PhD students to get insider information about the many career possibilities and research areas in Bayer.

The trip began from Bochum with a bus transfer to the Bayer HealthCare (BHC) research center in Wuppertal, where Mr. Larsen Schnadhorst from the Communication…

On the 20th of April 2016 TranSOLV organized an excursion to Bayer Health Care in Wuppertal.