Beach chair prizes, NFC free drinks and "Korb-A-Libre" cocktails? Creative ideas for the extraordinary event on Cottbus's Baltic Sea were developed and presented as part of a Bachelor's module at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Conflicts are part of everyday life in software development, for example when teams work together on a system. A new DFG project at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and Philipps-Universität Marburg is now researching a proactive approach that not only recognises conflicts, but also specifically prevents them.

"The thought machine: How to go on a voyage of discovery with AI" - this is the title of the next event at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) pupil university on Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 4 p.m. on the Campus Senftenberg.

BTU researchers are investigating how mower conditioners affect insect diversity in agricultural grassland in a new project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

What will the aircraft engines of tomorrow look like - efficient, clean and safe? BTU provides the answer: in the new 14.5 million euro joint project "LoPPer", researchers are developing autonomous production methods for hybrid-electric drives for air taxis and regional aircraft. Core technology: the digital twin and the industrial metaverse.

Samar Dhahbi is studying for a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and was part of the very first cohort. She is currently writing her Master's thesis.

Heat, heavy rain, floods: extreme weather situations are on the rise - and with them the burden on emergency services and control centres. The AIRCIS research project in the Lusatia model region, funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV), shows how emergency structures can be made more crisis-proof with the help of AI, data-based forecasts and simulation-based planning.

Joint press release: MUL - CT, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, CHESCO and Airbus Helicopters lay the foundation for an innovation ecosystem in healthcare, digitalisation and mobility

The hydrogen tour makes a stop at BTU, a visible sign of the university's central role in research and the transformation of the energy and industrial region of Lusatia. Minister of Economic Affairs Daniel Keller is exchanging ideas with companies, local authorities, networks and science on site and visualising projects along the entire value chain.

Prof. Johanna Blokker speaks calmly, almost tentatively, when she talks about buildings. As if she were listening to them. For her, walls are not silent witnesses, but storehouses of experiences, hopes and ruptures. "I'm not just interested in what we preserve," she says, "but why we need it."