Do everything
that connects people,
and nothing that divides them.
F&U confirm
(: Happy Conferences :)
Organizer of scientific events
Since 1998
We cover your back from organisational trivia while you concentrate exclusively on content and strategy for your event. This we guarantee with our friendly and experienced team with backgrounds in natural sciences and humanities.
In Leipzig, all over Germany and even internationally – F&U confirm is a PCO (Professional Congress Organiser) offering the complete spectrum of organisation and agency services that you might need in preparing any event, even including publications and media realisation for workshops, tutorials, meetings and conferences – straightforward, with fresh ideas and always gladly realising your projects. This all comes in a reliable and non-bureaucratic fashion while always being affordable – as a F2F, web or hybrid conference.
HILDE FELDMANNOGARIT UHLMANNSUSANNE LANGEFRANZISKA ZEZULKA
DIANA NARVAMARIO HELMJana KachlerVolker GreschoManuela Deuber
Dr. Hildegard Feldmann Manager, biologist, journalist 
Hildegard majored in biology and journalism, later doing her PhD in biology at the University of Mainz. In 1992 she moved to Leipzig and started working at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in 1993. She oversaw thesis projects at the Staatliche Studienakademie Breitenbrunn’s degree in Tourism Economy, specialisation Event Management. Since 2011 she trains students in Event Management for the IHK Leipzig (Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
Ogarit Uhlmann M.Sc. Manager, phycicist, M.Sc. in geophysics and planetary physics 
Ogarit majored in Physics at the TU Chemnitz-Zwickau and went on to complete a Master of Science in Geophysics and Planetary Physics in Newcastle upon Tyne. She moved to Leipzig in 1994 where she finished a Diploma in Physics in 1995 at the University of Leipzig. Ogarit Uhlmann worked for the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ with geographical information systems. In addition she is working as an author.
Susanne Lange Project manager, geographer (Dipoma)
Susanne finished a Master in Geography at the University of Leipzig, with time abroad in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. She works for F&U confirm since 2003.
Franziska Zezulka Project assistant, certified translator (Diploma)
Franziska finished a Master in translation for Arabic and English at the University of Leipzig, with additional qualifications in French and German as a Foreign Language. Her studies brought her to Syria, Ireland and Morocco. Before joining the team of F&U confirm in 2016, Franziska Zezulka worked at the University of Leipzig, the German Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan, and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, as well as a freelance translator. She also supported F&U confirm on a freelance basis for many years.
Diana Narva Project manager, Industrial clerk, B. Sc. psychology student 
As a trained industrial clerk, I primarily have experience in sales and service marketing. The organisation of internal/external event series as well as the trade fair in Frankfurt am Main were among my main tasks. I have been part of the F&U confirm team since 2020 and look forward to supporting clients in planning and organising scientific conferences. In addition to my work, I am studying psychology. My focus is on work and organisational psychology.
Mario Helm Project assistant, certified translator (Diploma)
Mario studied law, translation (Spanish & Portuguese) and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Leipzig. He worked and works for the universities at Leipzig (Germany) and Concepción (Chile), among others. For many years now Mario Helm supports F&U confirm as a technical and organizational assistant, as well as with translations, layout and proof-reading.
Jana Kachler Agronomist
Jana Kachler studied agricultural economics at the University of Copenhagen with a research stay in Cambodia. She then worked as a research assistant at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research and the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). Jana Kachler has been working at F&U confirm since 2024.
Volker Grescho Surveyor and geoinformatician
Volker Grescho is a cooperation partner of F&U confirm. You can find out more about his services at https://angelsystem.org. He is a trained surveying technician and studied geoinformatics at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences. He has worked for several engineering firms, OLANIS GmbH and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, among others.
Manuela Deuber Japanologist and tourism manager
After studying Japanese Studies in Munich and spending time abroad in Tokyo, Manuela Deuber moved to Leipzig in 2021. There she completed an additional dual study programme in tourism management with a focus on event management. Manuela Deuber has been working at F&U confirm since 2024.
You do not really understand something unless
you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
F&U confirm offers more than a traditional PCO (Professional Congress Organisation) in many respects: We support you at home and abroad, we have expertise in abstract and review handling, and offer not only print media and websites, but also conference apps, photography and video (up to 6K) services, print in 2D and 3D, and much more. And on top of all this, it will always be our pleasure to order a coffee for you.
- Counselling, concepts and fresh ideas
- Green & eco-friendly meetings
- Calculation, budgeting & sponsoring
- Conference accounts and bookkeeping
- Project development
- Event production
- Advertising the event
- Corporate identity | corporate design
- Photography, live streaming
- Video (HD, 2K, 4K, 6K, PAL, Web), post-production
- Print 2D & 3D, graphic design, logos, layout, pre-press
- Proceedings | publications | books of abstracts
- Editing | text writing | proof-reading | translation
- Apps
- Websites, webconferences, online-seminars, video conferences
- Registration | online registration
- Handling of abstracts, reviews and papers
- Conference rooms & Technical equipment
- Participant support
- On-site management
- Exhibitions
- Catering
- Excursions | shuttles
- Accommodation
- Culture | social programme
- VIP support
- Success monitoring
- Organisation of evaluations
- Workshops: On-site or online on organising scientific events / finances & costing / project management and planning: Tailored to your concerns and with plenty of time for your questions.
Current Projects & References
Selection
Current Projects | Selection
#Sedimentology.Lunch 2023 – DGGV Seminar Series – Season 2023–2024
2023
25 January 2025 | Halle / Saale (hybrid)
ANAKON 2025 by the Analytical Chemistry of the German Chemical Society
10–14 March 2025 | Leipzig University
ASD 2025 Area Selective Deposition Workshop 2025
10–14 March 2025 | Leipzig University
15. Mitteldeutsches Neuroimmunologieforum (Middle German Neuroimmunology Forum)
14 March 2025, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
12–15 March 2025 | Universität Leipzig
27 March 2025 | Leipzig
22–25 May 2025 | Leipzig
ICCS 2025, 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures
1–5 June 2025 | Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
10–13 June 2025 | Neues Rathaus Leipzig
JESIUM 2025, JOINT EUROPEAN STABLE ISOTOPES USER group MEETING
16–20 June, 2025, Groningen, The Netherlands
12th International Cretaceous Symposium
31 August – 5 September 2025 | Leibniz University Hannover
13–18 September 2025 | Universität Tübingen
Geo4Göttingen 2025, Annual Meetings of the German Society for Geosciences - Geologische Vereinigung / Jahrestagungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften – Geologische Vereinigung • DGGV
15–18 September 2025 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
8–9 October 2025 | Magdeburg / 8.–9. října 2025 | Magdeburgr
Location selection days (Tage der Standortauswahl)
23–24 April 2026 | Leipziger KUBUS
GlobeWQ – Global Water Quality Analysis and Service Platform
ETC/ICM Technical Reports 2020―2022
Acting on Ecosystem Service Opportunities | Guidelines for selecting and planning policy and financing instruments to conserve ecosystems and enhance sustainable livelihoods
A Snapshot of the World’s Water Quality: Towards a global assessment | UNEP-Report, Webseite & Videodokumentation
Conferences as Core PCO: Assistance for a conference over several years
(Aqua)ConSoil – International (UFZ-)Deltares Conferences on Groundwater-Soil Systems and Water Resource Management
2019 Antwerp, BE | 2018 Antwerp, BE | 2017 Lyon, FR | 2015 Kopenhagen, DK | 2013 Barcelona, ES | 2010 Salzburg, AT | 2008 Mailand, IT | 2000 Leipzig | 800 delegates
Annual Meetings of the German Society for Geosciences - Geologische Vereinigung / Jahrestagungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften – Geologische Vereinigung • DGGV
2024 Dresden | (DMG & DGGV) 2023 Berlin | (DMG & DGGV) 2022 Münster | Karlsruhe 2021 | Utrecht 2020 (Webkonferenz) | Münster 2019 | Bonn 2018 | 2016 Innsbruck | 2015 Berlin | 2014 Frankfurt a.M. | 2012 Hannover | 2010 Darmstadt | 2009 Dresden | 2007 Stettin, PL | 2006 Berlin | 2004 Leipzig | 400–800 delegates
Jahrestagungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie • DGL / Annual Meetings of the German Society for Limnology
2024 Dresden | 2023 Köln | 2022 Konstanz | 2021 Leipzig | 2019 Münster | 2018 Rhein-Waal | 2017 Cottbus | 2015 Essen | 2014 Magdeburg | 2013 Potsdam | 2012 Koblenz | 2011 München | 2000–2009 u.a. Oldenburg, Konstanz | 2007 Münster, Dresden, Karlsruhe | 400–500 delegates
JOINT EUROPEAN STABLE ISOTOPES USER group MEETING – JESIUM
2020/2022 Kuopio (hybrid) | 2012 & 2016 Leipzig & Gent, BE | 250–300 delegates
2019–2024 Leipzig: F2F & hybrid | 250–400 delegates
2019–2023, F2F & Web conference
International Conference SEMANTiCS
2014, 2016 & 2023 Leipzig | 250–300 delegates
Water Research Horizon Conferences – WRHC • Water Science Alliance
2024 Leipzig | 2023 Freiburg | 2022 Essen | 2021 Web conference | 2019 Hanover | 2018 Dresden | 2017 Hamburg | 2016 Dessau | 2010–2015 Berlin | 200 delegates
2022 | 2016 & 2014 Cologne | 100–150 delegates
(Leipzig Interactive Nephrology Seminar (Saxon Congress for Advanced Training in Nephrology and Pediatric Nephrology, in German)
2008–2024 Leipzig | F2F & hybrid; 50–100 delegates
Annual Meeting of the German Association for Stable Isotope Research (GASIR) (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Stabile Isotope e.V. ASI
2024 Darmstadt | 2021 Darmstadt | 2018 Raitenhaslach | 2017 Hannover
Magdeburg water protection seminars | Magdeburger Gewässerschutzseminare • MGS
2020/2021 Dessau | 2016 Dresden | 2012 Hamburg | 2008 Magdeburg | 2004 Leipzig | 2002 Spindlermühle, CZ | 1998 Karlsbad, CZ | 150–250 delegates
2022–2024 Halle / Saale (hybrid) | 200 delegates
Late years Conferences – Selection
2024
20–23 March 2024 | RWTH Aachen
15–19 April 2024 | Neuen Rathaus Leipzig
2–7 June 2024 | Leipzig
Clay 2024 „Clays in natural and engineered barriers for radioactive waste confinement“
25–28 November 2024 | Hannover
UBA Fachkonferenz „Governance und Recht zur blau-grünen Stadtentwicklung” (UBA conference “Governance and law for blue-green urban development”)
2024 Leipzig, 100 Teilnehmer*innen
2023
Central German Neuroimmunology Forum (Mitteldeutsches Neuroimmunologie-Forum) 2023
24 March 2023 | Leipzig
BONARES – Soil as sustainable resource (Boden als nachhaltige Ressource) 2023
15 – 17 May 2023 | Berlin | 400 delegates
30 August – 1 September 2023 | Leipzig | 150 delegates
2 – 8 September 2023 | MLU Halle / Saale | 700 delegates
European Conference on Ecological Modelling ECEM 2023
4 – 8 September 2023 | Leipzig KUBUS | 350 delegates
International Hyperpolarization Conference HYP2023
24 – 28 September 2023 | Universität Leipzig | 200 delegates
2. Mitteldeutsches Herzinsuffizienz-Symposium (Central German Heart Failure Symposium)
18 November 2023 | Magdeburg
2022
#TSK.Seminare 2022 – DGGV Seminar Series – Season IV
2022
Geoscientific Contributions to Sustainable Development – DGGV Seminar Series
2022
12th Central German Neuroimmunology Forum (Mitteldeutsches Neuroimmunologie-Forum)
25 March 2022 | Leipzig
23 – 26 March 2022 | Jena (hybrid)
MOSES 2022 – Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems
30 May – 3 June 2022 | Leipzig
5 – 8 September 2022 | Trier
Organisation von Tagestrainings und Coachings für die ReinraumAkademie Leipzig
Interventionen gegen Schlaganfall (Stroke interventions)
2021 & 2022 | Altenburg
European Geothermal Congress EGC 2022
17 – 21 October 2022 | Berlin
2021
Helmholtz Clima Initiative (Helmholtz-Klima-Initiative)
17 November 2021 | Berlin
Interventionen gegen Schlaganfall (Intervention against stroke)
17 November 2021 | Altenburg
#TSK.Seminare 2021 – DGGV Webmeetings – Season I + II + III
Innovationsforum Aktive Mikrofluidische Separation (AMS)
23–24 September 2021 | Leipzig
17 July 2022 | Halle / Saale (hybrid)
German Midwives Congress (Deutscher Hebammenkongress) 2021
10–12 May 2021 (Technical Support on the Web conference) | 500 TN
Forum Citizen Science
6–7 May 2021 (Technical Support on the Web conference) | 200 TN
17th International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (EMPG-XVII)
28 February – 3 March 2021
Working Meeting of the Soil Movement Service Germany (Arbeitstreffen des BodenBewegungsdiensts Deutschland im Auftrag der BGR) 2020 / 2021
2020
14–15 January 2020 | Leipzig
Jahrestagung und Workshops der Endometriose-Vereinigung Deutschland
2020: Webmeetings
"Sustainable and Resilient Urban-Rural Partnerships" URP2020
25–27 November 2020 | Leipzig: hybrid
5th working meeting of AK 6 BodenBewegungsdienst Deutschland
19–20 November 2020 | BGR webconference
Geothermiekongress DGK / Geothermal Energy Congress
19–21 November 2019, Garching (Munich)
European Students' Conference ESC
25–29 September 2019, Berlin
2–6 September 2019, Leipzig, 200 participants
YES 5th International Young Earth Scientists Conference "Rocking Earth's Future"
9–13 September 2019, Berlin
2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge LDK 2019
21–22 May 2019 | Leipzig
Layout PoF IV Programme Application for the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Please note the following additional information concerning data protection:
At our events you will be asked to wear a name badge. Furthermore, at events organised by us photos might be taken or films shot, members of the press might attend, lectures might be transferred via Skype, there might also be video conferences or live streamings with or without recording. Upon request we will gladly provide you with more details, or ask us on-site during the event.
