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BTU offers flexible career paths that meet the individual needs in an increasingly rapidly changing world. Our outstandingly supportive supervision and the international and close-knit life on campus create a motivating and creative studying and working environment. Situated in the heart of the Lausitz region, BTU combines outstanding international research with future-oriented teaching. It makes an essential contribution to society, our culture, and the economy through knowledge and technology transfer and further education. As a technical university, BTU offers a teaching concept found nowhere else in Germany: our courses of study lead to either a university or a university of applied science degree, or to a so-called dual education degree, which is obtained through a combination of academic schooling and vocational training. Our university wants to contribute to making tomorrow's world a better place. The research institutes, the administration team, and all departments of Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus–Senftenberg (BTU) work closely together towards this goal. With interdisciplinary research, innovative teaching, knowledge, technology transfer, and further education, BTU is looking for solution approaches that solve global and national and regional problems. These include energy, healthcare, the environment, IT-based networks and communication, and cultural and social issues. We are committed to our social duty to act responsibly concerning research, teaching, and technology transfer. Our interdisciplinary dialogue in engineering, the natural and the social sciences, and the humanities promotes creativity and unlocks new solutions. We are open-minded towards ground-breaking research in other fields. In specific disciplines, we also intend to be one of the leading universities based on excellent basic and applied research. As a small technical university, we are committed to promoting the establishment of cross-faculty and inter-university networks and the development of interdisciplinary research projects that serve civil purposes. Our university's locations lie in a region defined by structural change. We develop solution approaches locally for which there is an international demand. To achieve our aims, we support young scientists and offer attractive and equal opportunities to promote their professional and personal development. Our university has also established a service-oriented framework to support our scientists. We see ourselves as a driver for the innovations that promote the Lausitz region's development. The exchange of knowledge, resources, and expertise means an ongoing dialogue process with our regional and national, and international partners that focuses mainly on current and future social challenges. Our students and young academics obtain employment market relevant qualifications and are given active support as they take on their first positions or decide to set up a business. Our university is a place for lifelong learning. It offers interested people of all ages and the university members a wide choice of further education opportunities. Our dedicated approach results in long-term ties with our alumni and former university members. Our modern and excellently equipped university offers unique courses of study and further study to students from around the globe who are willing to learn and work hard. These courses are the basis for successfully obtaining degrees that meet the regional, national, and international employment market demands. We make research, technology, and enjoyable practice experiences and do our utmost to help our students to become open-minded and discerning academics with a sense of social responsibility. We see ourselves as a campus-based university with three locations, which allows us to meet our students' needs. At our university, the dialogue between the students and those who teach them is ongoing and intensive. We stand for scientific and didactic teaching of a high standard. Our innovative, extremely accessible teaching concept is completed by university preparation courses, careers advice, and skills promotion offers. The Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) is a campus university with three sites: the Cottbus Central Campus, the Cottbus-Sachsendorf Campus, and the Senftenberg Campus. As a university of technology, the BTU offers a teaching concept that is unique nationwide in that its courses lead to either a university or university of applied science degree or to a so-called dual education degree, which is obtained through a combination of academic schooling and vocational training. View full university