How can the topic of energy be explored and experienced through theatre? Pupils in Year 10 at the Theodor-Fontane-Schule in Cottbus investigated this question as part of the Max-Grünebaum-Stiftung’s ‘Researching Theatre’ project.

Whether in a care home, a factory floor or an office building: when every second counts in an emergency, it must be clear where a person is at any given moment. A research team at the BTU has now presented a method that significantly improves the design of such tracking systems – making them faster, more reliable and requiring considerably less hardware than before.

Jannis Werner successfully completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) in March 2026. His start-up, Machinespace, is now being funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) through the exist start-up grant.