120 applications – 20 per cent more than in the previous record year, 2025: interest in the STAR*PARADE is higher than ever. The next phase is now beginning for the participants, with workshops, preparations for their pitches and their first appearances before the judging panels.

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) and the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS) appoint an assistant professor for a new early-career research group

How did our universe come into being? Why does matter exist, rather than just energy? What is the mysterious dark matter made of? A student at the BTU is researching these questions: as part of his Master’s thesis at CERN, Severin Schmidt is developing innovative high-frequency absorbers – a key technology for the most powerful particle accelerators of the future.