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We kicked off 2024 with a workshop for the new Lausitz Science Park website. Concentrated creativity and interaction in one room. The results will soon be on display.

Raiko Möller von DMK E-Business erklärt den Teilnehmenden den aktuellen Stand der Struktur

Ariane Derks, Managing Director of the Lausitz Science Park, and Dr. Jakob Pohlisch from the Cottbus Energy Innovation Centre (EIZ) showed what successful collaboration can look like at the lecture on 6 December 2023 as part of the Open BTU event series on the topic of "Shaping the future of Lusatia with BTU".

Dr. Jakob Pohlisch und Ariane Derks bei Open BTU

On November 30, 2023, the Minister President of the State of Brandenburg, Dr. Dietmar Woidke, visited outstanding structural change projects at BTU. He stopped by the Materials Researchers at SpreeTec neXt, was taken on a tour of the innovation landscape of the Lausitz Science Park and learned about modern technologies for climate-friendly mobility at chesco.

Minister President Dr. Dietmar Woidke visited several structural change projects in Lusatia, including three BTU projects. Photo: BTU/Ralf Schuster

Prof. Michael Hübner, Vice President for Research and Transfer at the BTU, explained to the Great Lusatia Round Table on November 24 at the invitation of Christine Herntier, spokesperson for the Brandenburg municipalities in the alliance and mayor of Spremberg, just how much impact the structural change projects are already having in Lusatia.

Participants of the Great Lusatia Round on November 24, 2023 in the Spremberg Spree Cinema.

Middle class. Structural change. Shaping. This was the motto of the forum on November 7, 2023, which was attended by over 250 representatives from politics, science, administration and SMEs, demonstrating the great interest in structural change.

From left: Prof. Michael Hübner, BTU Vice President for Research and Transfer, Ariane Derks, Managing Director of the Lausitz Science Park, BTU President Prof. Gesine Grande and Carsten Schneider, Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany.

At its 22nd meeting on July 10, 2023, the Lusatia Interministerial Working Group (IMAG) confirmed, among other things, the fundamental eligibility of a development application for the Lusatia Science Park (LSP) in Cottbus.

Blick auf den Zentralcampus der Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg. Im Hintergrund das Gelände, auf dem der Lausitz Science Park entstehen wird.

On May 11, 2023, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also visited the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg as part of his three-day "Local Time Germany" in Senftenberg. The Lusatia Science Park also took center stage as an outstanding future project for structural development.

Ariane Derks has been managing the "Lausitz Science Park" (LSP) project since March 2023. In her position, she is responsible for setting up an operating company for the technology and innovation park, which is being created as one of the outstanding structural development projects under the leadership of the BTU in Cottbus.

It is one of the outstanding structural development projects: the Lusatia Science Park. Under the leadership of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), an innovation landscape with international appeal is to be created in Cottbus over the next few years.

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