Archive "Press releases"

30.10.2025

BTU STEM women's scholarships for a further nine female students

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) has awarded the MINT Women's Scholarship for the fourth time in a row. Nine young women who have started a STEM study programme can look forward to a monthly grant of 250 euros over nine months and intensive support during their first career steps.

Group photo of the MINT women scholarship holders with the Vice President for Studies and Teaching at BTU Prof. Dr Peer Schmidt, the Central Equal Opportunities Officer Birgit Hendrischke and Prof. Dr Dr Tanja Kneiske from Fraunhofer IEG, as well as with the university's MINT ambassador Dr.-Ing. Ramona Riedel.

29.10.2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics in the focus of the "MINT on Wednesday" series

Prof. Dr Götz Seibold, Dean and Chair of Computational Physics, will speak about this year's Nobel Prize in Physics on 5 November 2025 at 5:30 pm as part of the public lecture series "MINT am Mittwoch" of the Faculty of MINT, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at BTU's main campus in Cottbus.

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr Götz Seibold.

24.10.2025

Discovering the human voice at pupils university

How do we produce sounds, whether we are singing or speaking? How does our voice work? These and other questions will be discussed on Wednesday, 26 November 2025, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. in a practical lecture at the BTU in Cottbus.

The officer of the current student university event - qualified singing teacher and church musician Johannes Kaufhold. Photo: BTU, Ralf-Peter Witzmann

14.10.2025

Excellent research at BTU

Outstanding scientific achievements were honoured on Wednesday, 15 October 2025, on Research Day at the BTU Campus Senftenberg.