Digital skills, social participation and structural change are the focus of the new educational project LausitzLabs. The project will be presented on Thursday 28 May 2026 at Startblock B2 in Cottbus as part of the public pop-up maker event and the closing event of the exhibition "zusammen:schrauben – A Culture of Repair and Making".

Inside a university building, there are workbenches, old bicycles and boxes full of things that others would have thrown away long ago. Here, students repair, swap and help one another. For BTU researcher Prof. Melanie Jaeger-Erben, this place is more than just a project.

As we look back on the run of the Professorinnenprogramm III at the BTU, we are celebrating the successful achievement of the programme’s objectives and the gender equality measures it has enabled. The ceremony will open at 10.30 am on 25 June 2026 in Großer Hörsaal with opening addresses by Manja Schüle, Minister for Science, and Gesinde Grande, President of the BTU.

The latest event in the Open BTU series, taking place on Wednesday 27 May 2026, is dedicated to the history of the Berlin Wall. Anyone interested is invited to the main campus in Cottbus to hear a talk by Prof. Dr Leo Schmidt, the long-standing former holder of the Chair of Architectural Conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

Young people in Years 7 to 10 who are interested are invited to Senftenberg on Wednesday 27 May 2026 at 4 pm for an exciting lecture organised by the Pupil University of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) in collaboration with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

Ruben Scherer is in his third semester of the World Heritage Studies programme at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). His poster on a former cable car station in Tbilisi (Georgia) won an award at the 2025 ICOMOS Student Competition ‘1960+ / Construction’.

"I chose BTU because of its strong academic curriculum, research-oriented approach, and the opportunity to study in an international environment."

BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Brandenburg Refugee Council invite you to a public online debate on migration, asylum policy and social cohesion

On 24 and 25 June 2026, Lusatia will once again become the hub of European climate innovation: the Decarbon Days, taking place on the BTU Cottbus main campus, will bring together stakeholders from politics, business, academia and civil society in the EU’s first Net Zero Valley.

In May 2026, the Grundbach estate in Olbersdorf became a working site for architecture and urban planning students from Germany and the Czech Republic. As part of a workshop, students from the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) developed visions for the future of the former miners’ estate.