On Saturday, 19 July 2025, the Center for Hybrid Electric Systems Cottbus (chesco) will once again open its doors to the public. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., interested parties will be given exclusive insights into the research factory and learn how work is being carried out on the drive technologies of tomorrow.

30 kilometres long, mostly cool, swimming opportunities and hardly any roads: On Saturday, 19 July 2025, the first cycle path in Germany adapted to climate change will be opened - the "Kühle Spur". The event with a science market is open to the public: 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the harbour in Großräschen in the Lusatian Lakeland.

40 EUNICE participants divided into 11 multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, 13 online workshops, a summer school and a tech hackathon – this diverse programme was offered from 14 March to 4 July this year by the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) at our partner university, the University of Catania in Italy.

On 11 July 2025, Dr Klaus Freytag, the Lusatia Commissioner of the Minister President, personally handed over the grant notification for almost 5 million euros on behalf of the State Chancellery of the State of Brandenburg at the future location of the project as an important starting signal.

At the English-language summer school "Low Carbon Electricity and Mobility Concepts", organised by Prof. Harald Schwarz, Chair of Decentralized Energy Systems and Electrical Networks, students and young researchers will gain an in-depth insight into key future technologies of the energy and mobility transition.

Among the twenty members of the new Advisory Council for Housing, Urban Development and Construction in the 21st legislative period of the German Bundestag is BTU Prof. Dr Ludger Gailing, Chair of Regional Planning. Together with his colleagues from research and practice, the scientist advises the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB).

Minister Schüle, Minister Keller and representatives of Brandenburg's universities and research institutions welcome the success of the capital region in the nationwide competition / Federal government provides 10 million euros

On friday, 18 July, and saturday, 19 July 2025, Cottbus residents and international students from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg are invited to rediscover Branitz Park together at a drawing workshop, to draw, to get to know people and perspectives and to exchange ideas.

From 4 to 6 July, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) invited scholarship holders from all over the world to Berlin to celebrate 100 years of the DAAD together. BTU doctoral student and DAAD scholarship holder Ms Freda Adiali had the unique opportunity to exchange ideas with DAAD President Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee and Foreign Minister Dr. Johann Wadephul.

Experts from research and practice will talk about increasing efficiency in production processes at the Cross-Cluster Conference on Sustainable Production. Hosted by the Brandenburg Economic Development Corporation (WFBB), the conference will take place on Thursday, 10 July 2025, in the start-up centre on the main campus of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.