The winners of this year's Shell Eco-marathon energy efficiency competition were announced on June 15, 2025. In the Prototype Hydrogen category, the Thaiger-Racing team won just ahead of the student BTU team Lausitz Dynamics. The latter took 2nd place with a proud performance of 964.3 km/m³. A great result!

Circa 70 future-oriented study programmes are available to interested young people at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). Two new Bachelor's and six Master's degree programmes will be offered for the first time in the upcoming winter semester 2025/26, half of them in English.

On Sunday, 22 June 2025, from 12 noon, Puschkinpark will be the meeting place for friends of the intercultural festival that BTU students from 15 countries have put together with Cottbus associations for the city festival. The colourful mix of Singing, dancing and culinary delights has long since become a tradition.

Experience an inspiring afternoon with Dr Johannes Staemmler, who will read from his book and provide exciting insights into visions for the future and structural change in Lusatia.

As part of the 25th anniversary of the Brandenburg Energy Day 2025, experts from business, science and politics will take stock of the current status of the energy transition on Wednesday, 11 June 2025.

Around 120 experts from the energy technology and Energy Economics sectors will meet on 10 June 2025 for the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Energy Innovation Centre (EIZ) to discuss solutions for the energy transition. On 11 June, the EIZ will then host a specialist forum as part of the 25th Brandenburg Energy Day.

How can empty spaces become lively meeting places? Researchers from BTU are now tackling this question together with civil society, local authorities, culture, planning and students in the "AlterPerimentale" project. An excursion will take participants to the dilapidated railway station in Neupetershain on Tuesday, 10 June 2025.

Participants in the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) children's university on 5 and 18 June 2025 in Cottbus and Senftenberg will learn exciting things about luminous liquids and invisible colours.

"Brain and computer united: How we can influence virtual worlds with our thoughts" - this is the title of the current Pupils' University lecture at the Cottbus main campus of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, from 4 to 5:30 pm.

The new thematic block "Democracy and hope in the crisis" of the Open BTU public lecture series will start on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, at 5:30 pm with renowned speakers - political scientist Prof. Dr Gesine Schwan and Prof. Dr Holger Zaborowski, holder of the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt.