Minister Schüle and Minister Hoffmann welcome students to an event organised by the Brandenburg University of Technology in Senftenberg

On Saturday, 10 October 2026, the LausitzLabs will launch at Start Block B2 in Cottbus. From day one, the BTU has been investigating how the concept drives structural change. With the LausitzLabs, a coherent and scalable educational ecosystem is being established in Lusatia for STEM, media and digital education, as well as democratic participation.

Children’s eyes full of wonder, fascinating facts spread across eight floors, exciting things to discover, things to try out and get involved in – this is how the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will be presenting itself on Saturday, 10 October 2026, from 6 pm at the Information, Communication and Media Centre (IKMZ).

An international research team has developed a plastic that is made up of 50 per cent renewable raw materials, is produced in a more energy-efficient manner and can be selectively broken down at the end of its useful life. The Department of Polymer Chemistry at BTU Senftenberg has made a key contribution to this. The findings have now been published in the journal *Chem Circularity*.

The Open BTU lecture series at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, at 5.30 pm.

With an engaging lecture by Dr Christian Wolfram, a specialist in ophthalmology at the Medical University of Lausitz – Carl Thiem (MUL – CT), and Ralf Schuster, a photographer at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), the BTU Children’s University will kick off the new semester on 14 and 15 October 2026.

On 10 September 2026, students from the student environmental group EcoNET presented their project ‘GUMNO – The Campus Sponge Garden’ at the DINI Annual Conference and ZKI Autumn Conference in Aachen. They returned to Cottbus with the top prize in the competition ‘Designing a Sustainable University – Launch Your Future Project’ and prize money of 3,500 euros.

The young Nigerian woman has been studying for a Master’s degree in Transfers-Fluids-Materials in Aeronautical and Space Applications (TFM-ASA) at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) since 2025. She has successfully completed her dissertation at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) on the topic of electrified propeller technologies.

On Wednesday, 7 October 2026, at 5.00 pm, the opening reception for the exhibition “The Denied” will take place at the Cottbus City Museum. Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is organising three public events to accompany the exhibition, which runs from 8 October 2026 to 3 January 2027. Anyone interested is warmly invited!

A demolition excavator is gnawing its way through a prefabricated block of flats. For most people, it’s just building rubble. For Angelika Mettke, it’s a treasure trove. For 30 years, the BTU professor has been fighting against the throwaway mentality of the construction industry and giving concrete slabs weighing tonnes a new lease of life. The Tagesspiegel ranks her amongst the 100 most influential figures in Berlin’s scientific community.