Dementia is generally regarded as a disease of old age. A specialist forum organised by the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg on Monday 21 September, World Alzheimer’s Day, demonstrates that this view is too narrow.

Cultural and academic exchange, as well as strong cooperation with India, are at the heart of the first India Day in Cottbus. At the invitation of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Indian Embassy, researchers, students and guests will take part in the event on 18 September 2026, which is being organised by BTU students from India.

Loneliness in the neighbourhood, an on-demand bus service across the countryside, a new village square in the middle of a building site: the podcast “Zukunft.Gestalten.Leben” takes listeners to places where decisions are being made about what a good life in old age might look like in Lusatia. The programme is produced by AlterPerimentale, a research project at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

On 14 September 2026, the Minister for Science, Dr Manja Schüle, will present the certificate of appointment to Prof. Gesine Grande. This means that the re-elected President of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will be able to take up her second term of office as scheduled on 1 October 2026.

Manja Schüle, Minister for Science, has launched the initiative for AI and Microelectronics. The Federal Ministry of Research is funding the project with 15 million euros under the Structural Strengthening Act. The first module, AI-DISCO, is researching a platform for distributed AI.

The Centre for Structural Change and Regional Development (ZESTUR) is officially launching at the BTU with a celebratory kick-off event in Startblock B2 in Cottbus. Around 60 representatives from academia, politics and public administration, as well as from civil society in Lusatia, will celebrate the launch of the new centre on Thursday, 10 September 2026.

Mobina Mirzaee is 26 years old. She has been studying for a Master’s degree in Urban Design and Sustainable Revitalisation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) since October 2024.

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.

The academic community in Brandenburg is committed to social responsibility. This encompasses not only research and the education of students, but also the transfer of knowledge to society, the economy, politics and culture.

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