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.

Highly popular information about studying, lectures, insights into research, campus, laboratory and library tours, exciting hands-on experiments, sports and much more - that was the Open Campus Senftenberg 2.0 Day at BTU on 24 May 2025. The highlight of the opening event was the inauguration of a drinking fountain by the Lausitz Water Association.

"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.

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is once again taking part in Cottbus Environment Week as part of its Open BTU public lecture series on Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 5:30 pm. The speakers will be Prof. Dr Klaus Birkhofer, head of the Chair of Ecology at the university, and Sven Hoffmann, board chairperson of the Cottbus Beekeepers' Association.

On the occasion of the University:Future Festival - from 13 to 15 May 2025 in Berlin - the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) received the certificate of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung for the successful strategy process within the framework of peer-to-peer consulting.

The prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2025 will be awarded to the international research teams of the LHC experiments ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb. Among them: former BTU doctoral candidates Maria Börner, Olena Karacheban, Ihar Marfin and Prof. Wolfgang Lohmann.

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will be presenting over 40 programme items to experience, discover and participate in when it helps to organise the Senftenberg Open Day on Saturday, 24 May 2025, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

It was really crowded! On Saturday, 10 May 2025, young and old alike wandered through the Potsdam Science Park to get a taste of research at the 12th Potsdam Science Day. Over 40 Brandenburg educational institutions presented themselves. Among them was BTU, which was a crowd-puller with its programmes.

In the latest university ranking by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE), the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) once again receives top marks, in particular for its support at the start of studies. BTU students gave the ranked study programmes an average of 4 out of 5 points.