Researchers from BTU and TU Braunschweig have shown that industrial fibre hemp can be grown successfully even under extremely dry and nutrient-poor conditions. The latest study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research, sheds light on the potential of the hemp variety Santhica 27 for sustainable agriculture in sandy soils.

The research project "Optoelectronic Sensors for Application-oriented Systems for Life Sciences and Intelligent Manufacturing - OASYS" is developing a compact, AI-supported hyperspectral camera that visualises chemical material properties in real time.

The children's university of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) has a very special offer for the winter holidays. "Stage party for team players" is the motto on Tuesday, 3 February 2026, when the children's university will be a guest at the Piccolo children's and youth theatre on Erich Kästner Platz in Cottbus from 9:45 am to 12 noon.

Both BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg projects have successfully revitalised rooms in the Schlosskirchpassage after years of vacancy. In the immediate vicinity of Losmachen - Verein zur Förderung der Lausitzer Zivilgesellschaft e.V. and StudioProFitness, the offers are gladly accepted by a growing community of interested Cottbus residents.

The President of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) Gesine Grande and the Director of the Sorbian Institute (SI) Hauke Bartels sign a cooperation agreement.

State Secretary for Science Tobias Dünow, together with State Secretary for the Interior Frank Stolper, BTU President Gesine Grande and Dorit Wehling, Head of Student Services, today opened the extensively refurbished canteen at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

What new therapies will emerge when the brain and technology communicate directly with each other? The next event in the Science@Lausitz series will provide answers to this highly topical question on Wednesday, 28 January 2026, at the Medical University of Lusatia - Carl Thiem in cooperation with BTU.

Two graduates of the Urban and Regional Planning master's programme at BTU were awarded a prize at the prestigious Balg-Mächler Prize for Young Scientists 2025.

Dr Christoph Maximilian Abels, behavioural scientist at the University of Potsdam, will conclude the Open BTU series at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg on Wednesday, 28 January 2026, at 5:30 p.m. in the current winter semester.

BTU cutting-edge research goes into weightlessness: a new space project funded by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) "Dielectrophoretically Induced Convection (DEPIK II)" is researching how heat can be transported efficiently using electric fields, even without gravity.