The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is delighted to welcome numerous new exchange students again this year.

From 22-24 September 2025, representatives from administration, business and science from the Polish coal mining region of Katowice learned about structural change in Lusatia and explored opportunities for future research cooperation with BTU.

The Central Language Facility (ZES) offers a wide range of foreign language courses to support internationalization at the university and in the region, as well as within the framework of the EUNICE university alliance.

Along his academic journey from India to Freiburg and Cottbus, John Joe Padua is pursuing the goal of making industrial production more sustainable. With a focus on hydrogen infrastructure and the European electricity market, he is working on solutions for a low-carbon future and deepening his expertise at the Decarbonisation Summer School.

The EUNICE Student Research Clubs (SRC) are returning for a second edition, this time in collaboration with ASG, the operating company of the Schwarze Pumpe industrial park.

A brand new range of multidisciplinary courses offers EUNICE students the opportunity to benefit from the expertise of ten European universities and to personalise their educational path.

Can art help to create social bonds and a shared connection to cultural heritage? Niloofar Soleymani from the international World Heritage Studies study programme at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) addresses this question in her master's thesis.

40 EUNICE participants divided into 11 multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, 13 online workshops, a summer school and a tech hackathon – this diverse programme was offered from 14 March to 4 July this year by the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) at our partner university, the University of Catania in Italy.

From 4 to 6 July, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) invited scholarship holders from all over the world to Berlin to celebrate 100 years of the DAAD together. BTU doctoral student and DAAD scholarship holder Ms Freda Adiali had the unique opportunity to exchange ideas with DAAD President Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee and Foreign Minister Dr. Johann Wadephul.

As part of the BIDS project, school pupils from Poland, Romania and Turkey took part in the trial study programme and got to learn about different degree programmes at the BTU.