Students in front of the University Main Building. One of them is helping to plant a tree.

Tree dedication

Arrive - put down roots - guard house
Students in front of the University Main Building. One of them is helping to plant a tree.
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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Growth, knowledge and cohesion - a tree embodies all this and much more.
Since 1993, Friedrich Schiller University Jena has dedicated a tree to its new first-year students as a symbol of the beginning of their studies and concludes the welcome ceremony for new students with this tree dedication.

Growing memories

Pictures: Jürgen Scheere · Anne Günther · Jens Meyer · Jan-Peter Kasper

Our trees

Locations of the previous tree dedications

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Acknowledgement

Logo of the Friends and Sponsors of the University of Jena

Graphic: Freunde und Förderer

The Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena makes this tradition possible through its financial support.

We would like to thank them for their commitment. In this way, the university's graduating classes are remembered in the long term.

To the website of the Society of Friends and Sponsors