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CITY CYCLING from 04.05. to 24.05.2024 - BTU is part of it!
We want to take part in the nationwide "City Cycling" competition again this year. Join us and register now for the "BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg" team!
Last year, we were the largest team with 227 cyclists and ended up in 2nd place with 41,527 km!
Let's take part in this year's nationwide "City Cycling" competition together with all BTU locations and cycle as many distances as possible.
During the campaign period from 04.05. - 24.05.2024, the kilometers of all participants will be recorded and evaluated. Every kilometer cycled counts, whether in your free time or on the way to school / university / work, whether in Cottbus or outside the city.
Register now for the "BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg" team at: https://www.stadtradeln.de/registrieren or with your cell phone via the "Stadtradeln" app. Together, let's cover as many distances as possible in a climate-friendly way by bike.
We are excited to see what team performance will be achieved this year!
You can find more information about the competition on the City Cycling Cottbus website.
| Good to know: The "AG Fahrradfreundliche BTU" was launched in 2020. If you have any tips or requests regarding friendly at the individual locations, please contact the working group at fahrradfreundlich(at)b-tu.de. |
Research by bike! For more safety on Brandenburg's roads - The project "Too close? - More safety with distance!"
According to the StVO, cars and trucks must keep a minimum distance of 1.5-2m when overtaking cyclists. However, the reality often shows a different picture: Cyclists are harassed if the overtaking distance is too short and accidents can and do occur more frequently. Studies also show that bicycles are often not used at all for fear of being endangered in traffic.
In the Innovation Hub 13 research project "Too close - more safety with distance", participants can use the "OpenBikeSensor" installed on bicycles to measure the overtaking distance between themselves and overtaking cars and thus help to create an objective and important collection of data.
The Innovation Hub 13, a transfer project of TH Wildau and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, is cooperating closely with the BMVI Endowed Chair of Cycling at TH Wildau, the Maker Space ViNN:Lab and the Luckenwalde office on this citizen science project.
Anyone interested can take part and register now. No previous knowledge is required. All important information about the project and the opportunity to register can be found on the website: www.innohub13.de/wir-forschen/zu-nah.
Research by bike! For more safety on Brandenburg's roads - The project "Too close? - More safety with distance!"
According to the StVO, cars and trucks must keep a minimum distance of 1.5-2m when overtaking cyclists. However, the reality often shows a different picture: Cyclists are harassed if the overtaking distance is too short and accidents can and do occur more frequently. Studies also show that bicycles are often not used at all for fear of being endangered in traffic.
In the Innovation Hub 13 research project "Too close - more safety with distance", participants can use the "OpenBikeSensor" installed on bicycles to measure the overtaking distance between themselves and overtaking cars and thus help to create an objective and important collection of data.
The Innovation Hub 13, a transfer project of TH Wildau and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, is cooperating closely with the BMVI Endowed Chair of Cycling at TH Wildau, the Maker Space ViNN:Lab and the Luckenwalde office on this citizen science project.
Anyone interested can take part and register now. No previous knowledge is required. All important information about the project and the opportunity to register can be found on the website: www.innohub13.de/wir-forschen/zu-nah.
Research by bike! For more safety on Brandenburg's roads - The project "Too close? - More safety with distance!"
According to the StVO, cars and trucks must keep a minimum distance of 1.5-2m when overtaking cyclists. However, the reality often shows a different picture: Cyclists are harassed if the overtaking distance is too short and accidents can and do occur more frequently. Studies also show that bicycles are often not used at all for fear of being endangered in traffic.
In the Innovation Hub 13 research project "Too close - more safety with distance", participants can use the "OpenBikeSensor" installed on bicycles to measure the overtaking distance between themselves and overtaking cars and thus help to create an objective and important collection of data.
The Innovation Hub 13, a transfer project of TH Wildau and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, is cooperating closely with the BMVI Endowed Chair of Cycling at TH Wildau, the Maker Space ViNN:Lab and the Luckenwalde office on this citizen science project.
Anyone interested can take part and register now. No previous knowledge is required. All important information about the project and the opportunity to register can be found on the website: www.innohub13.de/wir-forschen/zu-nah.
Research by bike! For more safety on Brandenburg's roads - The project "Too close? - More safety with distance!"
According to the StVO, cars and trucks must keep a minimum distance of 1.5-2m when overtaking cyclists. However, the reality often shows a different picture: Cyclists are harassed if the overtaking distance is too short and accidents can and do occur more frequently. Studies also show that bicycles are often not used at all for fear of being endangered in traffic.
In the Innovation Hub 13 research project "Too close - more safety with distance", participants can use the "OpenBikeSensor" installed on bicycles to measure the overtaking distance between themselves and overtaking cars and thus help to create an objective and important collection of data.
The Innovation Hub 13, a transfer project of TH Wildau and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, is cooperating closely with the BMVI Endowed Chair of Cycling at TH Wildau, the Maker Space ViNN:Lab and the Luckenwalde office on this citizen science project.
Anyone interested can take part and register now. No previous knowledge is required. All important information about the project and the opportunity to register can be found on the website: www.innohub13.de/wir-forschen/zu-nah.
The BTU self-help bicycle workshop will open its doors again weekly from January 2023! Every Tuesday from 15:30 - 18:00 in the basement of LG10, students, lecturers and external persons can repair their bikes on their own or with the help of the people on site.
Does your bike have a flat tire? Or you have an eight? No problem! Just come to the BTU self-help bike workshop. There are plenty of tools and spare parts in the two cellar rooms that you can use for a donation. If you get stuck on your own, there are always people there to help you during opening hours!
Do you have any specific questions or would you like to get involved in the bike workshop? Then simply send us an email to: fahrradwerkstatt(at)b-tu.de
Opening hours: Every Tuesday 3:30 - 6 p.m. (from January 3, 2023)
Location: In the basement of LG 10 (Erich-Weinert-Straße 1)
What does it cost? The use of the tools and spare parts works for a donation
Who can come? Everyone :-) Students, Staff Members and residents from Cottbus and the surrounding area
The bicycle workshop is run by students as part of the BTU4Future module.
Venue
Basement room
Teaching building 10 (LG 10)
Main campus
Erich-Weinert-Straße 1
03046 Cottbus
The BTU self-help bicycle workshop will open its doors again weekly from January 2023! Every Tuesday from 15:30 - 18:00 in the basement of LG10, students, lecturers and external persons can repair their bikes on their own or with the help of the people on site.
Does your bike have a flat tire? Or you have an eight? No problem! Just come to the BTU self-help bike workshop. There are plenty of tools and spare parts in the two cellar rooms that you can use for a donation. If you get stuck on your own, there are always people there to help you during opening hours!
Do you have any specific questions or would you like to get involved in the bike workshop? Then simply send us an email to: fahrradwerkstatt(at)b-tu.de
Opening hours: Every Tuesday 3:30 - 6 p.m. (from January 3, 2023)
Location: In the basement of LG 10 (Erich-Weinert-Straße 1)
What does it cost? The use of the tools and spare parts works for a donation
Who can come? Everyone :-) Students, Staff Members and residents from Cottbus and the surrounding area
The bicycle workshop is run by students as part of the BTU4Future module.
Venue
Basement room
Teaching building 10 (LG 10)
Main campus
Erich-Weinert-Straße 1
03046 Cottbus
The BTU self-help bicycle workshop will open its doors again weekly from January 2023! Every Tuesday from 15:30 - 18:00 in the basement of LG10, students, lecturers and external persons can repair their bikes on their own or with the help of the people on site.
Does your bike have a flat tire? Or you have an eight? No problem! Just come to the BTU self-help bike workshop. There are plenty of tools and spare parts in the two cellar rooms that you can use for a donation. If you get stuck on your own, there are always people there to help you during opening hours!
Do you have any specific questions or would you like to get involved in the bike workshop? Then simply send us an email to: fahrradwerkstatt(at)b-tu.de
Opening hours: Every Tuesday 3:30 - 6 p.m. (from January 3, 2023)
Location: In the basement of LG 10 (Erich-Weinert-Straße 1)
What does it cost? The use of the tools and spare parts works for a donation
Who can come? Everyone :-) Students, Staff Members and residents from Cottbus and the surrounding area
The bicycle workshop is run by students as part of the BTU4Future module.
Venue
Basement room
Teaching building 10 (LG 10)
Main campus
Erich-Weinert-Straße 1
03046 Cottbus
The BTU self-help bicycle workshop will open its doors again weekly from January 2023! Every Tuesday from 15:30 - 18:00 in the basement of LG10, students, lecturers and external persons can repair their bikes on their own or with the help of the people on site.
Does your bike have a flat tire? Or you have an eight? No problem! Just come to the BTU self-help bike workshop. There are plenty of tools and spare parts in the two cellar rooms that you can use for a donation. If you get stuck on your own, there are always people there to help you during opening hours!
Do you have any specific questions or would you like to get involved in the bike workshop? Then simply send us an email to: fahrradwerkstatt(at)b-tu.de
Opening hours: Every Tuesday 3:30 - 6 p.m. (from January 3, 2023)
Location: In the basement of LG 10 (Erich-Weinert-Straße 1)
What does it cost? The use of the tools and spare parts works for a donation
Who can come? Everyone :-) Students, Staff Members and residents from Cottbus and the surrounding area
The bicycle workshop is run by students as part of the BTU4Future module.
Venue
Basement room
Teaching building 10 (LG 10)
Main campus
Erich-Weinert-Straße 1
03046 Cottbus
We rely on the bike
Bicycles have become an indispensable means of individual transportation in urban and rural areas.
We are convinced that a bicycle-friendly climate and a bicycle-friendly infrastructure will lead to an increase in the use of bicycles as a means of transportation. This improves the health of employees, reduces road congestion and is noticeably better for the environment.
We are committed to ensuring that more employees cycle to work at the BTU and that the BTU develops into a bicycle-friendly employer. The Bicycle-Friendly BTU Working Group, Health Management and the Sustainability Working Group are working closely together to achieve this because their topics overlap.
That already exists:
- Solar-powered bicycle pump at the ZC (in front of the FabLab/garage complex opposite the entrance to the interim canteen)
- Bicycle workshop
- Various bicycle parking facilities
- Cargo bike for the post office at the ZC
- E-cargo bike for the Senftenberg site
- Free use of "BTU rental bike" for business trips via business trip application and Carmen Richter
- Bikes can be borrowed from external providers at the main campus entrance
- Annual participation in the "Cycle to work" and "City cycling" campaigns
- The needs of BTU employees who cycle are incorporated into the cycling concepts of the cities of Cottbus and Senftenberg
Worth knowing
If business travellers use a bicycle at least four times within a month, a distance allowance of five euros is granted for each relevant month . The four uses of a bicycle within a month refer to the individual distances travelled and not to the number of business trips. The existence of the requirement must be reported monthly in arrears. If higher costs (e.g. hire bike) are proven in individual cases, these will be reimbursed.
The use of bicycles must be submitted with the business trip application form or with the application for reimbursement of travel expenses for one-day business trips between locations.
The total kilometres travelled can be entered under travel expenses and an informal list can be attached as an annex.
Good to know:
Costs incurred by taking a bicycle on a regular means of transport can be reimbursed in accordance with Section 10 of the Federal Travel Expenses Act (reimbursement of other costs), provided they are necessary for the fulfilment of official business.
The German Institute of Urban Affairs is the largest urban research institute in the German-speaking world. It advises local authorities on all tasks that need to be tackled today and in the future.
Interesting events take place every month, including the "Bicycle Academy".
Participation in the online events is generally open to all and free of charge.
For further information, please contact us at gesundheitsmanagement(at)b-tu.de .
We want to improve that:
Bicycles cannot be overlooked at the three BTU campuses. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to do in terms of bicycle acceptance and infrastructure:
- The topic of cycling should be given more attention at BTU.
- Secure, covered, lockable bicycle parking facilities at all locations protect against the weather, theft and vandalism.
- Service points and charging stations for e-bikes invite even more people to cycle.
- Information on all aspects of cycling with an annual cycling action day, an annual bike check, recommendations for business trips by bike, ...
- Increasing the attractiveness of BTU as an employer: young, well-educated people like to live in a bike-friendly environment.
The following members are involved in the "Bicycle-friendly BTU working group":
- Alexander Teller (ZC - LS Automation Technology)
- Andreas Bürger (Campus Sfb. - Institute of Electrical Systems and Energy Logistics)
- Birgit Heine (ZC - Application Systems)
- Catharina Buchenau (ZC - Central University Sports Centre)
- Christin Barsig (ZC - Equal Opportunities and Health Promotion)
- Diana Zeitschel (ZC - LS Automation Technology)
- Johan Levon (ZC - LS Automation Technology)
- Simone Ruhwald (ZC - Equal Opportunities and Health Promotion)
- Thomas Rößler (ZC - Chair of Media Technology and Production Administration)
- Tobias Falke (Campus ZC - General Staff Council)
Contact us
Tobias Falke
Spokesperson of the AG Fahrradfreundliche Uni
Deputy Chairman of the General Staff Council
tobias.falke@b-tu.de or
fahrradfreundlich(at)b-tu.de