At the Welcome and Registration Point, international first-year students receive relevant information on enrolment, starting their studies, as well as a comprehensive range of advice on everything you need when starting out in a new country. Opportunities for student networking are promoted.

Through the DAAD programme RISE Germany, students and doctoral candidates from all over the world can come to Germany for an internship at a university. The students Samihan and Fiona came to Cottbus from the USA. They talk about their internship and why they chose the BTU. Emilia Pożarowska appreciates the advantages of RISE for mentors.

The seven universities in the EUNICE higher education alliance, including BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, have taken numerous measures to help the people from Ukraine.

EUNICE, the European University for Customised Education, has for the first time set up a wide range of language courses open to all students, lecturers and staff of the alliance.

BTU guest students from Ukraine will spend the next six months learning German at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and embarking on an intensive journey of discovery through the region and German culture.