Excursions

Geoscientists like to remember their field trips because nature is the best teacher. Friedrich Schiller University Jena is ideally situated to create such memories because its geoscience programs are known for the quality of their terrain-based education and the above-average number of field days.

Jena students do not have to settle for local or regional training. Larger excursions are offered annually in the MSc program and take students to more distant parts of Europe or to other continents.

Jena's location on the edge of the Thuringian Mulde brings our students early and quickly into close contact with the metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks of central Germany, which illustrate the region's varied geological history. Immediately below and above the institute building, mudstone and gypsum of the upper Buntsandstein are on display. Some afternoon excursions set out on foot, by bicycle or by streetcar. One- and two-day geological excursions can be efficiently filled with a lot of information.