In an interview lasting around seven minutes, Gesine Grande talks about her personal highlights from the past six years of her term of office. She explains why she decided to stand for a second term and why she feels such a strong connection to the BTU. She also discusses plans, upcoming projects and challenges.

How tall might buildings have been around 2,800 years ago? A new, interdisciplinary study by the DAI and the BTU provides reliable structural findings on this subject for the first time.

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) has elected its senior management for the coming years. At the meeting of the Academic Senate on 24 September 2026, the results of the election for the members of the new executive committee of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg were announced.

A group of representatives from the management teams of Pakistani universities, led by the Manager of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, visited the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) on 9 September.

Congratulations to all graduates! On 18 September 2026, the graduates of the Cottbus main campus were given a festive send-off.

We would like to congratulate the graduates on their excellent Bachelor’s and Master’s theses

Cultural and academic exchange, as well as strong cooperation with India, were the focus of the first India Day in Cottbus. At the invitation of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Indian Embassy, researchers, students and guests attended the event on 18 September 2026, which was organised by BTU students from India.

Dementia is generally regarded as a disease of old age. A specialist forum organised by the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg on Monday 21 September, World Alzheimer’s Day, demonstrates that this view is too narrow.

Loneliness in the neighbourhood, an on-demand bus service across the countryside, a new village square in the middle of a building site: the podcast “Zukunft.Gestalten.Leben” takes listeners to places where decisions are being made about what a good life in old age might look like in Lusatia. The programme is produced by AlterPerimentale, a research project at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

On 14 September 2026, the Minister for Science, Dr Manja Schüle, will present the certificate of appointment to Prof. Gesine Grande. This means that the re-elected President of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will be able to take up her second term of office as scheduled on 1 October 2026.