The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is becoming increasingly attractive for prospective students. After around 2,000 young people enrolled for the first time since 2019 last year, this year's figure was 2,200. The total number of students rose to 7,100.

"Lying or standing? What the morphology of bloodstains tells us about the course of the crime!" Chief Inspector Marco Nitschke will discuss this topic with participants in the public lecture series "Forensic Sciences: Tracking down the crime" on Friday, 13 December 2024, at 5:30 p.m. at the Cottbus main campus of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Dr.-Ing. Turgut Saner has been teaching and researching at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) since the winter semester 2024/25. At the Institute of History of Art and Architecture, he passes on his expertise in late Ottoman art and architecture as well as archaeology to students and colleagues based on his experiences in his home city of Istanbul.

"Life by a thread: Why spiders are so fascinating" - this is the title of the current children's university lecture at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) on 12 and 14 December 2024.

chesco and its research partners have passed the first stage of the new call for applications for the federal aviation research programme and impressed the jury with their research outlines.

In the public lecture series "Open BTU" with Prof. Dr Armin Grunwald on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, the focus will be on careful technology assessment in particular. All interested parties are invited to Audimax 1 at the Cottbus main campus of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) at 5.30 pm.

The interactive travelling exhibition "I AM A.I. - Artificial Intelligence Explained" was opened with a vernissage on 2 December 2024 at BTU's Information, Communication and Media Centre (IKMZ). From now on, all interested parties are invited to discover the basics and fields of application of artificial intelligence (AI) in a playful way.

More than 200 participants from research, politics and practice discussed the status of an economically, ecologically and socially sustainable transformation in the regions affected by the phase-out of lignite - the Rhenish, Lusatian and Central German mining areas - at the 2nd Transdisciplinary Structural Change Conference in Mönchengladbach on 27 and 28 November 2024.

Traditionally, and this year too, university members and visitors from the region can be enchanted by the Christmas flair at the BTU in Senftenberg on Wednesday and Thursday, 11 and 12 December 2024, from 4 pm to 9 pm.

At a "2nd workshop to identify potential for cooperation along the Berlin - Berlin-Adlershof - Cottbus innovation corridor" on 27 November 2024, four joint research projects were awarded prizes and the previously signed Memorandum of Understanding was presented.