News archive

01.08.2022

Interview with BTU Alumnus und Gründer Dirk Robinski (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen)

"Today, the marketing knowledge I have acquired and the range of engineering subjects help me to understand our customers and their problems and to solve them."

BTU Alumnus Dirk Robinski

28.07.2022

Summer School »Ukraine and the Challenges of Nationhood, Individuality and Survival«, 12-16 September 2022

This is an external event at Ghent University.

28.07.2022

On the reconstruction of Ukraine

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) and three other German planning universities in Berlin, Kaiserslautern and Lübeck support digital teaching for urban development and for the reconstruction of Ukrainian cities.

Masterstudierende stehen auf der Straße einer ukrainischen Stadt

25.07.2022

New deadline: Call for Extended Abstracts: Conservation Theory and the Urban Realpolitik

International researchers are invited to contribute to a publication on conservation theory and urban realpolitik. We welcome South and West Asian cases discussing cultural heritage conservation procedures within urban socio-spatial and legal-administrative relationships. Editor Solmaz Yadollahi kindly asks potential authors to hand in their abstracts by 30 October 2022.

25.07.2022

With language skills "Fit for the campus!"

BTU guest students from Ukraine will spend the next six months learning German at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and embarking on an intensive journey of discovery through the region and German culture.

Gruppenfoto der am Deutschintensivkurs „Fit für den Campus!“ teilnehmenden BTU-Gaststudierenden aus der Ukraine vor dem IKMZ. Foto: BTU, Ralf Schuster

22.07.2022

Announcement of travel grants for BTU junior female scientists

The BTU supports its young female scientists from the doctoral phase onwards with a travel allowance for their active participation in international (also digital) conferences. The deadline for submitting applications is August 22, 2022.

Announcement of travel grants for BTU junior female scientists

22.07.2022

Plant-based bioeconomy in Lusatia: Refinement of active substances

Plant-based active ingredients have become indispensable in medicine. However, the basis for their broad application is the efficient extraction of these substances from medicinal plants. Using a novel process, scientists at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) can extract efficiently the active ingredients from essential oils.

Tractor harvesting chamomile

22.07.2022

A successful career start with a degree in artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping our daily lives, changing the economy and making its way into the private sphere. For the winter semester 2022/23, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is establishing new degree programmes for all those who want to actively participate in this fascinating development.

Student at a foosball table with a robot, in the background other students at laptops. Photo: BTU, Sebastian Rau

21.07.2022

New edition of Peripherie

New edition of Peripherie: DDR postkolonial

21.07.2022

Online training "Data protection within the research data life cycle"

Data protection reglations are a constant companion for researchers, raising challenges and questions from project planning to the publication of results.