The traditional opening of the CSD Campaign Weeks for Cottbus and Niederlausitz took place at the central campus of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. On May 13th 2019, the rainbow flag was hoisted by Prof. Dr. Matthias Koziol and the president of CSD Cottbus e.V.. This was BTU's kick-off for the campaign week.

A travelling exhibition by the Institute of Social Work at BTU, the association Lola für Demokratie in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. The exhibition invites visitors to engage with the daily lives of LGBT* people in Brandenburg today, and experience their emancipation, their courage, their struggles, and their strategies for survival.

Diaspora Radio tries to fill the gaps found in the representation of African Diasporas. It produces narratives of migration and transnational experiences of Africans in Europe and elsewhere in the world. BTU's PhD student Lydia Ouma Radoli started Diaspora Radio as an online media platform in March 2018.

Advisory Board for Integration and Migration (Beirat) Office Hours: Every second Thursday of the month from 4:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. in the town hall, Neumarkt 5, 03046 Cottbus.

Original Titel of the Lecutre Series "Sicherheit? Unsichere Zeiten? Kritische Perspektiven auf einen strapazierten Begriff", BTU Cottbus Senftenberg (Campus Sachsendorf, Institute of Social Work), Tuesdays from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.

The Representation of Migration in the ‘Postcolonial’ Museum, with presentations by Sandra Vacca, DoMiD Cologne; Dr. Tim Wolfgarten, University of Cologne; Dr. Joachim Baur, Museum Friedland; Dr. Hilary Braysmith, University of Southern Indiana. 22. und 23. November 2018, 10:30 - 15:30 Uhr at the IKMZ and ZHG of BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg.

15. and 16. November 2018 - The conference aims to inspire the link between international social sciences and regional social work. It shall encourage a discussion about thetheoretical and practical application of empowerment – not least as an approach to address social inequality in relation to forced migration.

Original Titel "Fremde im Land Brandenburg? Integration gestern und heute". Under the auspices of Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke and supported by the Federal Center for Civic Education, the Europe Union Brandenburg shows this travelling exhibit from May 12th 2018 until mid-February 2019 in the federal state Brandenburg. It shows: Migration is no new topic in Brandenburg .

From June 1st, 2016 until June 30th, 2018, the project "Foreign Friends: Stories and Faces of Migration" was conducted. The travelling exhibition is organized by the women's center Cottbus and can be visited in the townhall of Cottbus starting from March.