The senior experts undertake excursions together. These events – preferably a mixture of culture and chemistry – focus not only on discovering new horizons, but also on social contact between the senior members. In addition to the GDCh senior members, the VAA senior members from the Hanau-Wolfgang works group usually also take part in these excursions.
Holger Bengs organised this first excursion on 23 May 2007; Wolfgang Gerhartz organised all subsequent tours, in some cases with considerable support from Eva Wille, Klaus-Peter Jäckel and Hans-Uwe von Grabowski.
- The destination of the 16th SEC technology tour (9–11 Sep 26) is a visit to Chempark Leverkusen.
- The destination of the 15th SEC technology tour was a visit to KIT Campus North in Karlsruhe (formerly the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Centre).
- On 23 Sep 2024, we met for a visit to ThyssenKrupp in Duisburg.
- The 13th SEC technology tour took us to Weinheim an der Bergstraße on 22 Feb 2024 to visit Freudenberg SE.
- During the 12th SEC technology tour (27–29 Sep 2022), we had the opportunity to visit the food testing institute in Oldenburg.
- The 11th SEC technology tour took place on 12 and 13 Sep 2021, visiting Duderstadt in the Eichsfeld region (guided city tour) and Deuna (a visit to B+T’s plastics processing facility and Dyckerhoff’s cement works).
- The 10th SEC technology tour took us to the flat steelworks in Salzgitter and the old town of Brunswick (30 Sep–1 Oct 19).
- The programme of the 9th SEC technology tour on 7 Sep 2018 included the August Köhler SE paper mill in Oberkirch.
- The 8th SEC technology tour took place on 4 Oct 2017 and led to the Deutsche Amphibolinwerke DAW SE in Ober-Ramstadt.
- The Phantastische Bibliothek and Leica Camera AG’s award-winning building in Wetzlar were the destinations of the 7th SEC technology tour. on 24 Nov 2015.
- The 6th SEC technology tour also took us to Darmstadt, to the Hessian State Museum and the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Wixhausen.
- During the 5th SEC technology tour to Darmstadt on 14 Nov 2013, the Hundertwasser House was visited, followed by a visit to Merck (with a focus on OLEDs).
- On 26 Aug 2011, the 4th SEC technology tour set off for Erbach in the Odenwald (Einhard’s Basilica in Steinbach and a tour of the town), followed finally by a visit to Koziol.
- The 3rd SEC technology tour led to Darmstadt on 30 Aug 2010 for a visit to ESOC (Europe’s gateway to space) and the Art Nouveau villas on Mathildenhöhe.
- On 16 Jun 2009, the 2nd SEC technology tour went to Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße to visit BRAIN AG.
- A visit to the Höchst Industrial Park and Sanofi-Aventis’s laboratories on 23 May 2007, the 1st SEC technology tour, marked the beginning.
