Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Germany

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is a young campus university with international flair and a family atmosphere. With state-of-the-art technical equipment, excellent supervision and innovative teaching concepts, BTU guarantees practical, future-oriented studies.

Of the 6,800 students at BTU, around 44 percent come from abroad, from more than 120 countries. Women make up 43 percent of the total number of students. BTU employs 180 professors, over 650 teaching and research fellows and over 714 non-academic staff.
 

https://www.b-tu.de/
 

BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg sees itself as a research-intensive university with a strong focus on basic and applied research. It is characterized by the classic features of a technical university. Research is focused on four strategic profile lines:
 

• Global Change and Transformation Processes
• Energy Transition and Decarbonisation
• Health and Life Science
• Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Technology

As a university in the heart of the region Lusatia, BTU is the innovation driver of structural change in this region. With the Coal Region Structural Strengthening Act, BTU received the political and financial backing to initiate extensive colloaborative projects dedicated to the grand challenges of our time and to consolidate BTU's research profile.

At the meeting point between economy and science, major projects have emerged, for example Chesco (Center for Hybrid Electric Systems Cottbus) or the Energy Innovation Centre, which is developing solutions and technologies for a climate-neutral supply. One of the most outstanding structural change projects is the Lauitz Science Park, which will be build in Cottbus over the next few years. BTU is working on this innovation landscape with international appeal together with the state of Bandenburg, the Fraunhofer Society, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Leibniz Association and companies such as LEAF, BASF Schwarzheide, Beutsche Bahn and Rolls-Royce.