From 23 June 2026, prospective students at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will have the opportunity to find out how a degree course in their chosen subject is structured. Under the motto “Try it first, then study”, the taster course offers an excellent insight into the content and procedures, special features and everything that is part of student life.

On 5 June 2026, Angela Obongo successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the topic ‘Determinants of Access to and Utilisation of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Services in Kenya: Health System and Policy Perspectives’ at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and passed her doctoral examination. We offer our warmest congratulations!

Open BTU: Public lecture on Wednesday, 17 June 2026, at 5.30 pm, with Prof. Dr Astrid Schwarz at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). Anyone interested is warmly invited to attend this free event.

Structural change in Lusatia requires digital innovation. At the 5G / Edge Cloud Day at the BTU in Senftenberg, the university and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute will demonstrate how modern communications and data infrastructures are unlocking new potential for research, healthcare and industrial applications.

As part of the "Professionalisation of Housing Advice in Brandenburg" (ProWoB) project, an online self-study course on housing for older people has been developed. The main target group is housing advisers, but the course is also open to others who wish to explore the topic of housing for older people.

Half a century after completing their studies in Automation Technology at the Senftenberg School of Mining and Energy Engineering, alumni from the A73/2 seminar group returned to their former place of study – now the Senftenberg Campus of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

How can we achieve a secure and sustainable energy supply? The 26th Brandenburg Energy Day brings together experts from the worlds of academia, business, politics and public administration at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) to discuss the future of energy infrastructure.

Networks, system integration and flexibility are key to the next phase of the energy transition. At the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), this transition is not merely being discussed, but is being actively shaped through research and practical application.

At the heart of Prof. Klaus Birkhofer’s research lies an often underestimated insight: gardens are highly complex ecosystems. At the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, on the chair of Ecology, he is investigating how biodiversity develops in urban and rural green spaces and what role predatory arthropods, in particular spiders, play in this process.

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is once again visiting Cottbus Zoo with its Open BTU series. On Wednesday 3 June 2026, as part of the 37th Cottbus Environment Week, anyone interested is invited to the zoo restaurant at 5.30 pm.