![Modell des CEEC Jena II mit AWZ](https://www.ceec.uni-jena.de/ceec_femedia/3350/ceec2-weit-js-mitefre.jpg?height=428&width=760)
![Wolfgang Tiefensee, Thüringens Wissenschaftsminister, Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert, Direktor des CEEC Jena, Prof. Dr. Walter Rosenthal, Präsident der Universität, Heike Taubert, Finanzministerin Thüringens, Susanna Karawanskij, Staatssekretärin im Thüringer Ministerium für Infrastruktur und Landwirtschaft, und Dr. Thomas Nitzsche, Oberbürgermeister von Jena, (v. li.) während der Grundsteinlegung.](https://www.ceec.uni-jena.de/ceec_femedia/3230/grundsteinlegung.jpg?height=169&width=300)
July 2021
Ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for the new research buildings CEEC Jena II and the CEEC Jena Application Centre (AWZ CEEC Jena). Completion is planned by the end of 2023.
November 2019
Start of the European Training Network ETN "Innovative polymers for next-generation electrochemical energy storage - POLYSTORAGE"External link co-ordinated by Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert.
April 2019
Approval of the priority programme "Polymer-based batteries" (SPP 2248) coordinated by Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
October 2018
Start of the Master's programme "Chemistry of Materials" co-ordinated by Prof. Dr. Lothar Wondraczek.
![Emission of rylene dyes used as light harvesting units by CataLight to activate efficient photocatalysis for water splitting.](https://www.ceec.uni-jena.de/ceec_femedia/835/1560x878-at-0-120.jpg?height=169&width=300)
May 2018
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the new Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (SFB/TRR) 234 "Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials - Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies - CataLight".External link
2011
Start of the first two joint research projects of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS Hermsdorf on "New polymeric / ceramic materials for efficient electrical energy storage" (Research groups funded by the Thüringer Aufbaubank).