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External training For companies, specialists and managers

External training is important for companies and Staff Members to acquire new skills and knowledge and to strengthen competitiveness and innovation. They can be an important career step to further develop one's own competencies.

Professional and managerial staff

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Specialists and managers can gain further qualifications with our extra-occupational postgraduate master's degree courses, certificate studies and programs, specialist seminars or workshops, and soft-skill training. We offer thematically diverse qualification programs on the premises of the BTU or, through the integration of e-learning components, largely flexible in terms of time and location.

Our qualification courses have a clear practical relevance, are both competence- and action-oriented, and fund active, self-responsible, and collegial learning.

Further education formats and possible degrees

Based on the framework regulations in the area of continuing academic education at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and following the DGWF recommendations on formats of continuing academic education, the following degrees are offered in continuing academic education at BTU:

Study programmes providing further educationMaster: M.Sc. and M.B.L.90 credits
CertificateCertificate according to the study regulations "Artistic Education".120 credits
Diploma of Advanced StudiesDiploma of Advanced Studies (DAS)at least 24 credits
Certificate of Advanced StudiesCertificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)min. 10 credits
Microcredential (MC)
Continuing education course with examination		Certificate as qualified confirmation of participation for qualifications with proof of achievement1 - 9 credits
Continuing education course with examinationCertificate as qualified confirmation of participation for qualifications with proof of performancenone
Continuing education course without performance verification Certificate of attendance as proof of attendance of the continuing education course or of individual program modules without an assessment of performance
Extra-occupational postgraduate master's programs

Open up new career perspectives with a university master's degree program that can also be studied part-time. Upon successful completion, you can earn a Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Master of Business Law (M.B.L.) degree, depending on the discipline.

For more information on application and admission to the study programmes listed below, click here:

Certificate Programs

Inquiries or registrations are accepted on a rolling basis for all events.

After participating in the online and face-to-face sessions and passing a corresponding examination, participants receive a university certificate. The certificate is a high-quality proof for the personal educational biography as well as for a credit of acquired knowledge.

Our certificate offerings at a glance:

  • Teacher training in media education
    Dealing with technology-supported and non-technology-supported teaching and learning formats

  • Qualification for the implementation of the cross-occupational additional qualification for digital competencies
    Independent implementation of the additional qualification for trainees and company training personnel

  • Expanding leadership competencies - an update in leadership knowledge

  • Training in leadership behavior and clarification of own positioning for experienced and new managers as well as for junior managers.

  • Project management intensive course

  • Plan, implement, coordinate and successfully complete projects.

  • Process optimization with Six Sigma - Yellow Belt

On request individual modules from the study programmes:

On request in particular on topics such as:

  • Working world 4.0
  • Corporate development and organization
  • Legal project management
  • Oracle database administration
Professional (online) seminars, (online) trainings and soft skills

Technical and factual knowledge as well as so-called soft skills are more and more decisive for our professional and private success. With our offers we provide you with tools and interactive training to support you in coping with the demands at work and in your private life.

Requests are accepted on an ongoing basis for all events. Please contact us if you have any further requirements.

  • Teacher training in media education
    Dealing with technology-supported and non-technology-supported teaching and learning formats

  • Qualification for the implementation of the inter-occupational additional qualification for digital competencies
    Independent implementation of the additional qualification for trainees and company training personnel

  • Expanding leadership competencies - An update in leadership knowledge
    Training in leadership behavior and clarification of one's own positioning for experienced and new managers as well as for junior managers.

  • Applying for and acquiring subsidies
    Making the right use of businesssubsidies as part of structural development in the Lusatia region.

  • Project management in an intensive course
    Plan, implement, coordinate, present and successfully complete projects. Webinar

Would you like to be trained on a very specific topic or are you looking for a personal coach? Call us and/or make an appointment.

We will be happy to advise you on all matters relating to further training!

Educational leave and financial support

Educational leave

Take advantage of paid time off from work in connection with your participation in recognized continuing education events.

According to the Brandenburg Further Education Act § 15 and § 17, you have ten days within two consecutive calendar years at your disposal, which you can use for professional, political and cultural further education. Thus, employed persons have the opportunity to participate in recognized continuing education events.

Information on educational leave in the state of Brandenburg

If you are interested in educational leave, please contact us ten weeks before the start of the continuing education measure so that we can prepare the appropriate formalities.

General information about educational leave throughout Germany

Funding opportunities in the state of Brandenburg

The state of Brandenburg supports continuing education measures for small and medium-sized companies, among other things, through the funding program "Competence development through qualification in small and medium-sized companies in the state of Brandenburg".

The education voucher is an opportunity for employees subject to social insurance contributions with their main place of residence in the state of Brandenburg to have their participation in further education funded.

Advice and information on this can be obtained from the Brandenburg Economic Development Board (WFBB).

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For companies & institutions

Further training provides your Staff Members with additional qualifications, binds them to your company and also creates motivation on both sides. We will be happy to advise you and work with you to develop a needs-specific and customized training program to support the lifelong learning of your Staff Members with teaching and learning opportunities that are independent of time and place.

The benefits for your company or institution

  • Improvement of your competitive and innovative ability
  • Strengthening of the economic region of Lusatia through knowledge and practice transfer from the BTU

  • Increased attractiveness as an employer

Further training offers for your company

The Centre for Continuing Education is your partner when it comes to designing, organizing and implementing your continuing education event. Based on your experience and our competence, we develop joint trainings/coachings from which you and your staff will benefit. The Centre for Continuing Education of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg uses the potentials of the university for its offers and programs and guarantees you:

  • a high degree of innovation in the knowledge imparted,
  • the interdisciplinary networking of the contents,
  • the promotion of interdisciplinary competencies
  • the exchange with BTU professors about
  • and further cooperation, as well as the possibility of direct
  • the possibility of direct transfer to your professional practice.

On request, training courses, seminars/webinars and workshops in particular on:

  • Working world 4.0 - transformation to new working and office worlds in the digital age
  • Corporate development and organization
  • Personnel development and management theory
  • Legal project management
  • Oracle database administration
  • Customer-oriented communication
  • Team development and support
  • Motivation training
  • Leadership (junior staff) training
  • Targeted time and self-management
  • Conflict management
  • Specialist topics from the portfolio of the BTU's departments

We are happy to design further topics on request.

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