A team led by Prof. Dr Julia von Maltzahn at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) and the Leibniz Institute for Ageing Research in Jena has found a way to specifically transform malignant tumour cells in children into harmless muscle cells.

With a warm “Welcome to the BTU”, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) welcomed more than 2,000 new students on Monday, 28 September. The academic year 2026/2027 was officially opened at the enrolment ceremony held at the Stadthalle Cottbus. A total of around 7,700 people are now studying at the BTU.

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.

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.

Manja Schüle, Minister for Science, has launched the initiative for AI and Microelectronics. The Federal Ministry of Research is funding the project with 15 million euros under the Structural Strengthening Act. The first module, AI-DISCO, is researching a platform for distributed AI.

The Centre for Structural Change and Regional Development (ZESTUR) is officially launching at the BTU with a celebratory kick-off event in Startblock B2 in Cottbus. Around 60 representatives from academia, politics and public administration, as well as from civil society in Lusatia, will celebrate the launch of the new centre on Thursday, 10 September 2026.