January 2022
Thuringian Minister for Sciences Wolfgang Tiefensee hands over the grant for a Technology and Start-up Centre (TGZ) in the direct vicinity of the CEEC Jena buildings.
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.
September 2019
Start of construction of the new building CEEC Jena II including an application centre.
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
CEEC Jena is a finalist in the RegioStars Awards of the European Union in the category "Achieving sustainability through low carbon emissions".
October 2018
Start of the Master's programme "Chemistry of Materials" co-ordinated by Prof. Dr. Lothar Wondraczek.
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
August 2017
Funding of the Innovation Center CEEC Jena by the state of Thuringia (€ 6.5 million).
Juni 2017
Announcement of the funding of the new research building CEEC Jena II by the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz, GWK).
End of 2015
Completion of the first construction phase of the CEEC Jena in Philosophenweg 7a - the CEEC Jena I.
February 2015
Roofing ceremony of the new research building CEEC Jena I.
August 2014
Official foundation of the CEEC Jena as a university center of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
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).
2010
Development of a first joint concept of the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS Hermsdorf and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena for a joint energy and environmental center.