Now in its third edition, the student ball at Campus Senftenberg on 24 January 2026 saw students and employees from the BTU departments based here and at the Cottbus main campus and Sachsendorf campus celebrate with alumni and guests from the region.

A festive farewell and bright prospects for the future: BTU bids farewell to its graduates

The President of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) Gesine Grande and the Director of the Sorbian Institute (SI) Hauke Bartels sign a cooperation agreement.

State Secretary for Science Tobias Dünow, together with State Secretary for the Interior Frank Stolper, BTU President Gesine Grande and Dorit Wehling, Head of Student Services, today opened the extensively refurbished canteen at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

As part of its efforts to promote equality, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg honours particularly talented, high-achieving and committed female students in MINT* bachelor's and master's degree programmes every year. Submission deadline: 28 February 2026

What new therapies will emerge when the brain and technology communicate directly with each other? The next event in the Science@Lausitz series will provide answers to this highly topical question on Wednesday, 28 January 2026, at the Medical University of Lusatia - Carl Thiem in cooperation with BTU.

Two graduates of the Urban and Regional Planning master's programme at BTU were awarded a prize at the prestigious Balg-Mächler Prize for Young Scientists 2025.

BTU cutting-edge research goes into weightlessness: a new space project funded by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) "Dielectrophoretically Induced Convection (DEPIK II)" is researching how heat can be transported efficiently using electric fields, even without gravity.

Researchers at BTU are working on a new type of recycling process for electronic waste: metals such as copper, gold and silver are recovered from old circuit boards with the help of microorganisms. So far, biomining has rarely been used on an industrial scale, but it could help to conserve resources and protect the climate.

On 20 January 2026, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg invited international scholarship holders from the STIBET and BIDS projects funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to a joint networking meeting.