Two graduates of the Urban and Regional Planning master's programme at BTU were awarded a prize at the prestigious Balg-Mächler Prize for Young Scientists 2025.

Dr Christoph Maximilian Abels, behavioural scientist at the University of Potsdam, will conclude the Open BTU series at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg on Wednesday, 28 January 2026, at 5:30 p.m. in the current winter semester.

BTU cutting-edge research goes into weightlessness: a new space project funded by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) "Dielectrophoretically Induced Convection (DEPIK II)" is researching how heat can be transported efficiently using electric fields, even without gravity.

Researchers at BTU are working on a new type of recycling process for electronic waste: metals such as copper, gold and silver are recovered from old circuit boards with the help of microorganisms. So far, biomining has rarely been used on an industrial scale, but it could help to conserve resources and protect the climate.

On 20 January 2026, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg invited international scholarship holders from the STIBET and BIDS projects funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to a joint networking meeting.

Exciting insights into practical research work and future-oriented study programmes await pupils in years 11 to 13 from Tuesday to Thursday, 27 to 29 January 2026, at the Cottbus main campus of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

The scholar Prof. Dominik Lengyel has been appointed a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) as part of the Winckelmann Celebration of the DAI. The award recognises his internationally visible research achievements at the interface of archaeology, Architecture and digital visualisation.

The new year had barely begun when around 200 prospective students visited BTU's Campus Senftenberg on 15 January 2026 to find out about the university's Bachelor's study options as part of the Study Info Day.

The Chair of Architectural Conservation at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, headed by Prof. Dr Johanna Blokker, will in future be known as the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies. The BTU is thus continuing its successful collaboration with UNESCO in the field of heritage research, which began in 2003.

It aims to foster collaborations, research hubs and seed-funding for joint projects among other key objectives.