The coexistence of humans with an unimaginably large number of microorganisms will be the subject of the Children's University on Thursday and Saturday, March 2 and 4, 2023, at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).

You can now register for the first exciting online workshops for the summer semester. We will announce more workshops in April.

The one-year in-service training fits into any individual schedule. It consists of three modules leading to a university certificate. It is possible to take individual modules. Start date is March 3, 2023.

Doctoral candidates and early post-doctoral researchers from spatial, social, and historical sciences can apply until 28 February 2023.

The joint Graduate School was launched by BTU and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in January during the introduction week. The GRS provides funding for three of overall seven new doctoral positions.

On February 22, 2023, Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, presented Referenzkraftwerk Lausitz GmbH (RefLau) and the research consortium consisting of the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Energy IEG, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and TU Dresden at the Schwarze Pumpe industrial park with a notice of grant of 28.5 million euros.

Led by Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz and Dr. Anca Claudia, the BTU hosted a seminar titled "What Material Culture?" at the Wendish Museum Cottbus on 22 February 2023 with the aim of exploring the museum's objects through the perspective of new materialist theories.

Two articles published on current developments from mFund funding programs

Scientists of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg publish an interdisciplinary and inter-university anthology on small town research.

Two major earthquakes on the morning of February 6, 2023, have devastating consequences for many people in Turkey and Syria and their families. We would like to support students who are directly or indirectly affected by the earthquakes.