Nine years later followed a certification of the Association as a member of the public vocational development program (AZWV in Germany).
[3] The German Gemmological Association fosters intense cooperations with geoscientific institutions of German Universities regarding research and education, e.g. with the universities in Mainz,[4] Heidelberg, Hamburg, Würzburg, Bonn, with the “Fachhochschule” (college) of Rhineland-Palatinate and other gemmological institutions and laboratories world-wide.
It includes Eligible people have passed the educational programs of the DGemG and are willing to continuously improve their knowledge through special courses every five years.
About 30.000 participants from over 80 countries took part in the seminars and educational programs of the DGemG, which are offered in German and English.
After passing all three educational series, which takes about four months full-time, the participant will obtain the confirmation to issue gemological reports himself and is eligible to become a fellow of the German Gemmological Association (F.G.G).
The German Gemmological research- and educational-center is seated in the midst of the traditional gemstone-metropole, Idar-Oberstein and owns seminar-rooms, research labs and an educational gemstone-collection.