Archive "Press releases"

06.06.2025

Innovative energy mix in Brandenburg

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.

03.06.2025

Railway stations - new meeting places, cultural centres or places of the future?

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.

21.05.2025

Virtual reality in the focus of the BTU Pupils' University

"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.

Dr Marius Klug speaks into a microphone.

20.05.2025

Open BTU: Lecture evening "Why I won't give up hope"

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.

Prof. Dr Gesine Schwan at the lectern.

16.05.2025

Open BTU at the zoo: Cottbus hums and buzzes - small helpers, big impact

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.

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr Klaus Birkhofer.

15.05.2025

BTU receives certificate from the Digitalisation University Forum

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.

Prof. Dr. Peer Schmidt, Vice President for Studies and Teaching at BTU (left), and Boguslaw Malys, Head of the Multimedia Center, present the certificate.

14.05.2025

BTU doctoral candidates involved in highly endowed "Breakthrough Prize"

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.