Broad training with a high proportion of practical work; individual support, a wide range of guidance and support programmes; a broad range of compulsory elective modules, additional study skills and soft skills programmes; possibility of completing a work placement; good integration of teaching with neighbouring disciplines; possibility to transfer directly to doctoral studies (PreProChem); state-of-the-art new laboratory and teaching rooms (new construction from 2015); highly interdisciplinary teaching; excellent industry contacts.; Excellent teaching staff (e.g. Ars legendi Award); Subject-specific teaching concepts.

Broad basic education with early specialisation opportunities, a significant focus on academics and research, individual advising, a wide range of counselling and support programmes, a wide range of compulsory elective modules, a wide range of international exchange programmes, English-language courses, supplemental study skills and soft skills programmes, the integration of industrial and international partners into teaching, and state-of-the-art new laboratory and teaching rooms. Double degree agreements with the universities of Padua, Kansai and Osaka.

Numerous international exchange programmes, mobility windows, double degree programme with the universities of Kansai, Osaka and Padua, courses held in English, involvement of international partners (including Mercator Fellowship), lecturer and employee mobility (incoming and outgoing), Liebig College for International Bachelor's (Undergraduate Summer School), International Giessen Graduate Centre for the Life Sciences and Natural Sciences; DigiChem project (teaching project on sustainable chemistry with the universities of Padua, Ljubljana and Zagreb)

Equipment platforms in the Centre for materials science: Electrochemistry lab, micro/nanostructure lab, large-scale equipment: 2 orbitrap MS (Q Exactive, LTQ FT Ultra), time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer; ESCA system for surface analysis; Electron microscope (EDX/EBSD); FT-IR system/Raman microscope; pore size analysis system (Hg porosimetry und physisorption); OC equipment centre, including 5 NMR spectrometers, IR, UV, MS, HPLC and GC; Matrix laboratory; 2 single crystal diffractometers; 2 powder diffractometers; STA (thermal analysis); MALDI imaging; GC-MS/MS-O (olfactometry detector); Camera with eye tracker

Collaborative research with participation in the focus area "Cardiopulmonary System (Heart/Lungs)" as well as potential areas "Material and Energy (Storage Materials)", "Bioresources (Insects)" and "Infection, Inflammation and Active Ingredients", as well as research in the focus areas of the department: "Biodiversity and Global Change", "Human and Animal Nutrition", "Innovative Plant Production", "Native Wildlife", "Experimental and Applied Neuroscience", "Metagenomics", "Sustainable Syntheses and Processes" and "RNA Biochemistry and Regulation of Gene Expression".

Today the Gießen Chemistry department offers a very extensive Teaching Qualification programme with the Bachelor's and Master's degree (Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Materials Science, Sustainable Chemistry) and a diverse range of teacher training courses. Close collaboration with other Natural Science subjects and Medicine creates numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary specialisation. The course offerings in Sustainable Chemistry can be applied to all degree programmes. In addition, there is an elective course on "Creating a digital study environment for sustainable chemistry" with 3 international partners over the course of 4 modules.