How can endangered craft knowledge be preserved? BTU researchers and regional initiatives are focussing on personal stories: At the blueprint weekend in the Wendish-German Museum of Local History in Jänschwalde/Janšojce, the storytelling café becomes a living archive - and brings generations into dialogue.

The interactive stage programme of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will be making a stop in Cottbus on Monday and Tuesday, 27 and 28 April 2026, on the initiative of the College of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

With the new ['skai]-lab cooperation, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, the DLR Institute of Electrified Aero Engines and the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) are pooling their expertise in quality control, condition analysis and operational safety of additively manufactured components for electrified aircraft engines.

The Brandenburg-South regional competition of Jugend forscht was held for the first time and with great success on 4 March 2026. Around 40 pupils presented 25 independently developed research projects to a jury from science and schools at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

"How can the delivery robot help grandma and grandpa?" - this question will be explored in an exciting lecture on 11 and 12 March 2026 by participants at the children's university of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

12 hours of live power from the sternchen.fm studio: for International Women's Day, the BTU radio project is broadcasting a special 12-hour live programme. Under the title "Feminist Radio Day", the free radio station for Cottbus and Lusatia will take over the programme from 12 noon to midnight - with voices, sounds and perspectives from science, activism, culture and the community.

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) Campus Senftenberg will become a meeting place for young scientific talent on Wednesday, 4 March 2026. At the Konrad Zuse Media Centre, 40 young people from ten schools in the region will demonstrate their research spirit and present their projects.

Conflicts are part of everyday life in software development, for example when teams work together on a system. A new DFG project at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and Philipps-Universität Marburg is now researching a proactive approach that not only recognises conflicts, but also specifically prevents them.

"The thought machine: How to go on a voyage of discovery with AI" - this is the title of the next event at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) pupil university on Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 4 p.m. on the Campus Senftenberg.

BTU researchers are investigating how mower conditioners affect insect diversity in agricultural grassland in a new project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).