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.

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

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.