On August 16, 2019, the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberghaus hosted the fifteenth summer festival of technical chemistry with the award of the Ernst-Berl Prize.

After last year's victory, this year the working group of professor Busch was responsible for organising the annual football tournament on 7 August. Together with members of the workshop, the team reached the semi-finals, where it was narrowly defeated by the working group of professor Albert.

The graduation ceremony of the chemistry department took place on 03.07.2019. From the working group of Prof. Busch, Jana Sartorius, Sascha Hintenlang, Isabel Kronshorst and Jonas Degenkolb were awarded the Master's degree and Laura Euler Bueno the Bachelor's degree.

From 25-28 June, 18 doctoral and master students and research assistants flew to Sweden together with Professor Busch and Ursula Post. This year's seminar week was hosted by the Borealis company, which invited the research group to its industrial site in Stenungsund.

The 14th LDPE Plant Improvement Conference organised by the UHDE took place in Gdansk (Poland) from 17-19 June 2019. The annual conference deals with various topics related to the construction and operation of an LDPE high pressure plant.

From June 15-16, 2019, the 8th EFCE Doctoral Workshop for Polymer Reaction Engineering took place in Hamburg, organized by the research group professor Busch.

From June 11-14, 2019, the 13th Conference for Polymer Reaction Engineering (PRE) of Dechema took place in Hamburg.

From May 27-29, 2019, the annual meeting of reaction technology organized by Dechema took place at Marienberg Castle in Würzburg.

The 13th International Conference on “Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering” was held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from April 15-18, 2019. This year's conference focused on reaction engineering for macromolecules and the design of complex polymer structures and their analysis.

The annual meeting of the ProcessNet specialist groups Adsorption and High Pressure Process Engineering took place in Freiberg from 18-20 February. The annual meeting brings together the high pressure society from the German speaking countries.