At the “Pharma Career Dinner,” held with the support of AMI, undergraduate and graduate students in pharmacy and related fields gained valuable insights into starting their careers. In a relaxed atmosphere, recent graduates spoke openly about their first experiences in their day-to-day work, offered practical tips on career planning, and were available to answer questions. The dinner also provided an opportunity to network and exchange ideas in small groups.

AMI also supports smaller projects. For example, we are sponsoring a national conference—the 140th Federal Conference of Pharmacy Students—which will take place in Freiburg in 2026.

The Rector’s Office and AMI will jointly support the EXU initiative by helping to fund the painting of a tram in the university’s colors and featuring several slogans, thereby increasing our university’s visibility. Visibility is also a hallmark of an excellent university.

The program, which is offered during the winter semester and is supported and co-organized by AmI, is revised and expanded each year. Many of the instructors are employees of pharmaceutical companies, and in recent years, instructors from government agencies have joined the faculty. For the past two years, the interdisciplinary nature of the program has been further enhanced by an interdisciplinary lecture series led by pharmacists and medical professionals.

Since 2024, AmI has been supporting Dr. Anna Resch, who is completing her postdoctoral qualification at the University of Freiburg. We are very pleased that Dr. Resch, who has gained industry experience at several international pharmaceutical companies, has taken the leap to the University of Freiburg. Dr. Resch works on application-oriented projects. In addition to her laboratory work, she is also particularly interested in aspects of drug approval.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. R. Teufel and Lukas Becker will be founding the AmI-Basel association in Basel. Together with our colleagues in Basel, we will then be able to reach Swiss pharmacy students and continue our activities jointly. A first joint lecture series involving students from Basel and Fribourg already took place in the winter semester of 2025/2026. The Basel group visited us three times, and our students visited Basel three times. Another focus is now on closer cooperation with the Basel-based pharmaceutical industry, to which our Basel colleagues and friends have close ties.

In 2026, AmI awarded scholarships for the first time as part of the Transatlantic Mentoring Program. Students who had previously received an AmI network scholarship and were active in Alumni-AmI were eligible to apply for the scholarship. Scholarship recipients are paired with a mentor selected by the “Friends of Freiburg Alumni North America,” who provides guidance for 12 months. The goal is to enable our scholarship recipients to build international contacts in order to prepare them for international assignments. To this end, three of the scholarship recipients traveled to NYC in March 2026 to meet their mentors in person, while the other three will initially get to know their mentors via video calls.

From January 31 to July 27, 2025, the Uniseum Freiburg presented the special exhibition “Bert Jäger in the Mirror of Informel.” The exhibition honored the Freiburg painter Bert Jäger (1919–1998) with approximately 25 works, including paintings and ink drawings, which placed him in the context of other Informel artists. The exhibition was sponsored by AmI. This exhibition also demonstrated how wonderfully well-suited the Uniseum is as a venue for art, thereby making the “Uni in the City” initiative a reality.