diff --git a/dumux/multidomain/facet/gridmanager.hh b/dumux/multidomain/facet/gridmanager.hh
index 24d7f6a5bf8f31fe18d3f15dd735e363eeabb309..17342b2ba6dbc2ca78092fe9e46afce4cdb2c34e 100644
--- a/dumux/multidomain/facet/gridmanager.hh
+++ b/dumux/multidomain/facet/gridmanager.hh
@@ -369,6 +369,10 @@ protected:
     Grid<id>& grid_()
     { return *std::get<id>(gridPtrTuple_); }
 
+    //! return non-const pointer to the object containing embeddings
+    std::shared_ptr<Embeddings> getEmbeddings_()
+    { return embeddingsPtr_; }
+
 private:
     //! Returns the filename extension of a given filename
     static std::string getFileExtension(const std::string& fileName)