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to preserve it as a life-friendly planet: 
The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is Germany's national center for research into the solid Earth.

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The GFZ at the Hannover Messe 2025

At the world's leading industrial trade fair, the GFZ presented innovations in areas such as deep geothermal energy and geological hydrogen storage – visited by Brandenburg's Economy Minister.

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23rd Future Day - trying out the dream job

For one day, young people from 7th to 9th grade were able to slip into a profession of their choice. 112 pupils were given an insight into everyday working life at the GFZ on this year's Future Day.

News from RIFS

RIFS Invites Applications for 2026 Fellowship Programme

Each year around 20 fellows come to the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geoscience to pursue research projects in the field of sustainability. Applications for the 2026 cohort of RIFS Fellows are now open through to 9 June 2025. With the Fellowship, the…

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Professorship for Prof. Claudio Faccenna in Mainz

The head of GFZ section ‘Dynamics of the Lithosphere’ has been appointed as adjunct professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He is already professor at Università Roma TRE.

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In FOCUS | Geothermal energy - regenerative heat from the earth (Adobe Stock 55406660)
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In FOCUS | Space weather (NASA)
GRACE Satelliten
In FOCUS | Measurement of the Earth's gravity field: GRACE missions (Filmhaus Berlin)
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