The BTU Children's University shows how Lusatia is changing

Pupils from the third to sixth grades are invited to attend on Wednesday, 11 February at 5 p.m. in the lecture theatre of the Konrad Zuse Media Centre on the Campus Senftenberg campus of the university.
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On Thursday, 12 February, this 45-minute children's university lecture will take place at 3 pm and 5 pm in theCentral Lecture Hall Building, Audimax 2,on themain campus of BTUCottbus.
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The speaker is Martin Reents, teaching and research fellow
at the BTU's Chair of Regional Planning.

About the lecture

Everyone is talking about structural change in Lusatia. But what does this actually mean? Which structures are changing and transforming? What is disappearing and what is being added? And what does all this have to do with dinosaurs and underground forests?
The lecture will focus on the changes in Lusatia resulting from the reorganisation of the energy supply - i.e. the end of lignite mining and the switch to renewable energies such as wind and solar power. As well as all other changes aimed at creating new jobs in particular. These interrelationships are explained, with a special focus on the consequences of structural change for people, towns and landscapes in Lusatia.

The children's university lectures are intended to awaken an interest in solving scientific problems at an early age and give children the opportunity to experience the flair of a university.
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg thus gives schoolchildren from the third to sixth grades the opportunity to get a taste of university life and teaches them about solutions to everyday scientific phenomena in a child-friendly, exciting way. This encourages formative experiences that awaken the youngest children's interest in science and reduce their inhibitions about university.

Outlook:

The next children's university lectures will take place on Wednesday, 11 March, at 5 p.m. at Campus Senftenberg and on Thursday, 12 March, at 3 and 5 p.m. at BTU's Cottbus main campus on the topic of "How can the delivery robot help grandma and grandpa?".
The officers will be Prof. Dr Sylvio Simon and Nina Schneider from the BTU's Tool Making Machines chair and Prof. Dr Sebastian Zug from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

More about the children and youth projects at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg