Lectures for children and pupils on 20 and 22 April 2023

In April, the Children's University at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will focus on the topic of friction. The schoolchildren's university is about solving criminal acts.

Children's University "Friction - Curse or Blessing?" for students in the third to sixth grades with Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dieter Bestle, holder of the Chair of Engineering Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

  • Thursday, April 20, at 3 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. atthe university's central campus in Cottbus in the Central Lecture Hall Building, Audimax 2. Pleaseregister by e-mail to .
  • Saturday, April 22, at 11 a.m. at the Senftenberg campus in the Konrad Zuse Media Center. For all those interested who cannot attend, for example due to a long journey, the lecture will be broadcast live online. Pleaseregister at the e-mail address kinderuni(at)b-tu.de, stating whether you wish to attend in person or online. The link to the online lecture will be sent after registration.

About the lecture Friction is omnipresent, without friction our life would be unthinkable. Often it is wanted, but sometimes it disturbs. Where friction is wanted, as in the contact between car tires and the road, we try to increase it technically. Where it slows down movement and destroys energy, we try to keep it to a minimum. Various experiments are designed to show the cause and effect of different types of friction and to answer the following questions: How do you measure friction? What was the wheel invented for? Why doesn't a car tire go straight? Why does a knot hold?

Student university "Forensic miRNA fingerprints - traces" for students of the seventh to 13th grades with PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Stefan Rödiger from the Department of Multiparameter Diagnostics at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

  • Online event on Saturday, April 22, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Pleaseregister by e-mail toschueleruni(at)b-tu.de. The link to the lecture will be sent after registration.

About the Lecture Participants will explore the exciting field of biology and computer science and learn how forensic evidence can be used to track evidence from crime scenes. They will gain a better understanding of how biological data is collected and analyzed to solve complex cases.

Specialist contact

Heike Postelt
VP L 7 Zentrale Studienberatung
T +49 (0) 3573 85-280
heike.postelt(at)b-tu.de

Press contact

Ralf-Peter Witzmann
Kommunikation und Marketing
T +49 (0) 3573 85-283
ralf-peter.witzmann(at)b-tu.de
Prof. Dieter Bestle. Photo: BTU, Sebastian Rau
Dr. Stefan Rödiger. Photo: BTU, Ralf-Peter Witzmann

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