Press releases

Discover BTU at the Open Day

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is opening its doors at its main campus in Cottbus. On Tuesday 23 June 2026, from 9 am to 4 pm, visitors can look forward to a varied programme offering information on all aspects of studying.

Four students at the almost two-metre-high sculpted lettering of the BTU’s oversized logo

Research that is rethinking gardens

At the heart of Prof. Klaus Birkhofer’s research lies an often underestimated insight: gardens are highly complex ecosystems. At the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, on the chair of Ecology, he is investigating how biodiversity develops in urban and rural green spaces and what role predatory arthropods, in particular spiders, play in this process.

LausitzLabs launches in Cottbus: a new education network for structural change

Digital skills, social participation and structural change are the focus of the new educational project LausitzLabs. The project will be presented on Thursday 28 May 2026 at Startblock B2 in Cottbus as part of the public pop-up maker event and the closing event of the exhibition "zusammen:schrauben – A Culture of Repair and Making".

Pupil University lecture on climate protection in industry

Young people in Years 7 to 10 who are interested are invited to Senftenberg on Wednesday 27 May 2026 at 4 pm for an exciting lecture organised by the Pupil University of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) in collaboration with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

A portrait photograph of Dr Helen Müller from the German Aerospace Centre, the officer at the current lecture at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg Pupil University.