Dresden: Location of the ECerS XIX

Spirited intellectual exchange is a tradition in this internationally known artistic and cultural metropolis. Scientific competence and inventiveness have enabled the city to assert itself again and again as a high-tech location. Since as early as the 18th century, Dresden has been shaped by a fruitful association of business and science. Important inventions and developments resulted from this symbiosis. In 1708 Johann Friedrich Böttger developed the technique for making European porcelain here. Being rooted in this tradition, Dresden nowadays is a center of advanced ceramics in Europe.

Today the Saxon residence presents itself as a modern city, although even today the buildings from the renaissance, baroque and 19th century, like the Zwinger, the Semper Opera House, the Royal Palace or the Frauenkirche, determine the Elbe waterfront and the face of the city.