With its first Open Call in 2026, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) has launched a new initiative aimed at systematically developing key research areas. In doing so, the university is pooling expertise across disciplinary boundaries and taking a further step towards international excellence.

sternchen.fm – the independent radio station for Cottbus and the Lusatia region – has been shortlisted for the ‘Stadt_Land im Fluss Brandenburg’ local journalism award.

“A house made of concrete blocks: How people lived in the GDR” – this is the title of the next lecture in the Children’s University programme at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), to be held on 11 and 12 November 2026. The speaker is Constanze Kummer, a teaching and research fellow at the Institute for Building History and Art History at BTU.