Press releases

Cottbus Open - a colourful mile of culture from all over the world

On Sunday, 22 June 2025, from 12 noon, Puschkinpark will be the meeting place for friends of the intercultural festival that BTU students from 15 countries have put together with Cottbus associations for the city festival. The colourful mix of Singing, dancing and culinary delights has long since become a tradition.

Banner Cottbus Open

Innovative energy mix in Brandenburg

As part of the 25th anniversary of the Brandenburg Energy Day 2025, experts from business, science and politics will take stock of the current status of the energy transition on Wednesday, 11 June 2025.

Railway stations - new meeting places, cultural centres or places of the future?

How can empty spaces become lively meeting places? Researchers from BTU are now tackling this question together with civil society, local authorities, culture, planning and students in the "AlterPerimentale" project. An excursion will take participants to the dilapidated railway station in Neupetershain on Tuesday, 10 June 2025.

1,000 visitors discover the BTU in Senftenberg

Highly popular information about studying, lectures, insights into research, campus, laboratory and library tours, exciting hands-on experiments, sports and much more - that was the Open Campus Senftenberg 2.0 Day at BTU on 24 May 2025. The highlight of the opening event was the inauguration of a drinking fountain by the Lausitz Water Association.

Inauguration of the drinking fountain in front of the cafeteria. BTU President Prof. Dr Gesine Grande cuts the ribbon.

Virtual reality in the focus of the BTU Pupils' University

"Brain and computer united: How we can influence virtual worlds with our thoughts" - this is the title of the current Pupils' University lecture at the Cottbus main campus of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, from 4 to 5:30 pm.

Dr Marius Klug speaks into a microphone.

Open BTU: Lecture evening "Why I won't give up hope"

The new thematic block "Democracy and hope in the crisis" of the Open BTU public lecture series will start on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, at 5:30 pm with renowned speakers - political scientist Prof. Dr Gesine Schwan and Prof. Dr Holger Zaborowski, holder of the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt.

Prof. Dr Gesine Schwan at the lectern.

BTU receives certificate from the Digitalisation University Forum

On the occasion of the University:Future Festival - from 13 to 15 May 2025 in Berlin - the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) received the certificate of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung for the successful strategy process within the framework of peer-to-peer consulting.

Prof. Dr. Peer Schmidt, Vice President for Studies and Teaching at BTU (left), and Boguslaw Malys, Head of the Multimedia Center, present the certificate.

Diverse BTU programme for the Senftenberg Open Day

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will be presenting over 40 programme items to experience, discover and participate in when it helps to organise the Senftenberg Open Day on Saturday, 24 May 2025, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Banner zun BTU-Programm am Tag des Offenen Senftenbergs.