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.

This two-day interdisciplinary forum focuses on topics relating to artistic research, media studies and the Philosophy of Technology. All interested parties are warmly invited to attend. Participation is free of charge.

Digital skills, social participation and structural change are the focus of the new educational project LausitzLabs. The project will be presented on Thursday 28 May 2026 at Startblock B2 in Cottbus as part of the public pop-up maker event and the closing event of the exhibition "zusammen:schrauben – A Culture of Repair and Making".

Inside a university building, there are workbenches, old bicycles and boxes full of things that others would have thrown away long ago. Here, students repair, swap and help one another. For BTU researcher Prof. Melanie Jaeger-Erben, this place is more than just a project.

As we look back on the run of the Professorinnenprogramm III at the BTU, we are celebrating the successful achievement of the programme’s objectives and the gender equality measures it has enabled. The ceremony will open at 10.30 am on 25 June 2026 in Großer Hörsaal with opening addresses by Manja Schüle, Minister for Science, and Gesinde Grande, President of the BTU.