Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

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Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
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motto We research, teach and learn with passion
founding 1948 (state building school);
1991 (BTU Cottbus and HS Lausitz);
July 1, 2013 (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Sponsorship state
place Cottbus and Senftenberg
state BrandenburgBrandenburg Brandenburg
country GermanyGermany Germany
President Christiane Hipp (interim)
Gesine Grande (designated)
Students approx. 7000
Employee 1519 (as of December 31, 2019)
including professors 185 (as of December 31, 2019)
Annual budget 93 million euros (plus 33.9 million euros third-party funding) (2019)
Website www.b-tu.de
The locations of the BTU

The Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg ( BTU ) is a technical university that was newly founded in 2013. The BTU is the second largest university in Brandenburg after the University of Potsdam . University campuses are located in the cities of Cottbus and Senftenberg in the south of Brandenburg, between Berlin and Dresden. The central campus in Cottbus is not far from the old town center. Another, much smaller campus in Cottbus is located in the southern district of Sachsendorf . There are 40 kilometers between the central campus in Cottbus and the campus in Senftenberg.

College of Construction

Graduated from 1985 at the Cottbus Engineering College

There was already a state high-rise school in Cottbus since 1948. In 1954 the College of Construction was founded, alongside Leipzig and Dresden, this was the third construction college in the GDR. In the following period, the GDR ran into economic difficulties, and politically the pace became stricter under State Council Chairman Walter Ulbricht . Since the Rector Musterle, who was from Baden-Württemberg at the time, did not behave in conformity with the party and the Cottbus student carnival had repeatedly attracted negative attention from the party leadership, the Cottbus University was closed in 1963. The GDR no longer needed to train so many civil engineers. Because of the closed borders, the danger was averted that well-trained engineers fled to the FRG. Students and employees were at least partially taken over by the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) and the University of Architecture and Construction Weimar (HAB Weimar) and the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences .

In 1969 it was re-established as an engineering college for construction on the area of ​​the campus of what would later become the BTU. Under the new leadership of Rector Heinz Präßler , a line-loyal university of the GDR was established. By 1974, in addition to the engineering college, three technical schools, two company vocational schools and two polytechnic high schools had settled in the so-called training center . In Senftenberg there was a similar institution, which became the Senftenberg Mining Engineering School and later became the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences .

Rector Präßler retired in 1988 and was replaced by Rector Horst Brix. In October 1989, the Cottbus Engineering College was renamed the Cottbus College of Civil Engineering . In 1990, the year of reunification , the university tried to set the course internally for a smooth transition to the unified Germany. The Brix, one of the so-called hardliners, was replaced by the more moderate Rector Bernd Wagenbreth.

BTU Cottbus

Founding phase from 1991 to 1996

View over the forum to the central lecture hall building (Audimax).

On May 15, 1991, the Brandenburg State Parliament passed the Brandenburg University Act to establish the Technical University of Cottbus. Seven days later, the members of the founding commission, chaired by Günter Spur, were appointed by the Minister for Science, Research and Culture in Brandenburg, Hinrich Enderlein . The constituent meeting of the founding commission took place on June 14th and the TU Cottbus was founded on July 15th. With the five courses architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, environmental sciences and industrial engineering, the university started teaching on October 1st in the winter semester 1991/92. In 1992 the first core professors were appointed to the newly formed faculties.

On July 9, 1993, the Science Council recommended that the TU Cottbus be included in the annex to the University Building Funding Act (HBFG). The TU Cottbus was then included in the construction funding.

On June 1, 1994, the first elections to the faculty councils took place. In the same year, during the second Lusatian Science Days, founding President Spur suggested that the TU Cottbus should be named Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (BTU Cottbus). On December 7th, the first elections for the Senate and the Council followed, and on December 9th, the founding senate was passed by the Minister for Science, Research and Culture in Brandenburg, Steffen Reiche . The Senate and Council were constituted on January 12, 1995. On February 9, Sabine Pickenhain was elected chairwoman of the Council. The council elected - at the suggestion of the still incumbent founding president - the prorectors for teaching, studies and study reform, Wolfgang Cezanne , for research and young scientists, Reinhard Hüttl , and for planning and finance, Matthias Kleiner . On December 6th, Ernst Sigmund became the first president of the BTU Cottbus to be elected by the council. On January 30, 1996, the council elected - at the suggestion of the newly elected President - the Vice Rectors for Teaching, Studies and Study Reform, Wolfgang Cezanne, for Research and Young Scientists, Reinhard Hüttl, and for Planning and Finance, Jörg Kühn . On February 1, Sigmund was appointed President by Minister Reiche.

Profiling and expansion from 1996 to 2006

When Ernst Sigmund took office, the university was profiled in the fields of construction, energy, the environment and information technology. With the increasing number of students, the campus was continuously expanded and adapted to new needs. So in June 1998, after several years of construction, the Central Lecture Hall Building (ZHG) was built, which not only houses smaller lecture halls and seminar rooms but also the Audimax with around 1000 seats. In the following year, the International Meeting Center ( Ludwig-Leichhardt -Haus) was completed as a guest house for foreign and German visiting scholars. In the 1999/2000 winter semester, the university welcomed over 1,000 new students for the first time and the total number of students rose to over 4,000.

For the tenth anniversary of the BTU in July 2001, the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visited the university in a festive ceremony. In June 2002 the interdisciplinary research institute for lightweight materials Panta Rhei was opened. After the redesign of the teaching buildings 2A – D (formerly teaching buildings 4–7), construction of Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee as a central pedestrian promenade began in 2004.

The modern university library by the architects Herzog & de Meuron

In December 2004, the new information, communication and media center (IKMZ) by architects Herzog & de Meuron opened , which among other things houses the new central library of the university. A good six months later, in June 2005, the amateur radio station with the callsign DKØBTU was inaugurated and has been used for courses and radio evenings ever since.

Change in leadership and growth from 2006 to 2013

The Auditorium maximum (Audimax) during an introductory event for new students
Historical logo

On June 7, 2006, the Senate elected Jürgen Kurths as the new President of the BTU Cottbus, who accepted the election on June 13, 2006, but did not take office. He justified this step in a press release from the University of Potsdam by stating that the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture in Brandenburg did not meet his demands for better financial resources for the BTU Cottbus. The BTU Cottbus was for the first time leaderless in the following period. It was not until February 27, 2007 that Walther Christoph Zimmerli was elected as the new President, who then took office on May 15, 2007.

Since October 1, 2006 or the 2006/07 winter semester, there was a semester ticket for 94 euros at the time, which was valid for all public transport in Berlin and Brandenburg ( VBB ) and the RE18 Cottbus - Dresden. Before that, there were several strike votes in which the students themselves could decide whether to introduce the semester ticket. After several ballots in which the Semtix was rejected, it received a narrow majority in the summer of 2006.

The redesigned main building was inaugurated at the beginning of the 2008/09 winter semester. In addition to the office space for administration, it recently housed the student secretariat and the central student advisory service, the international office as well as chairs for computer science and mathematics. A special feature is the open design of the facade in the foyer area, which the Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee appears to run through the building. With the redesign of the main building, the teaching building in Ewald-Haase-Straße was no longer needed and the lease was terminated in spring 2009.

New logo of the BTU Cottbus

In summer 2009 the BTU received a new logo and introduced a uniform corporate design . The old logo with the Märkischer Adler was replaced by a curved variant of the abbreviation btu , which is based on the design of the floor plan of the IKMZ university library .

In the course of the nationwide education strike , there were also discussions and protests in Cottbus to improve study conditions. In the first phase of the education strike, from June 15 to 19, 2009, small rallies were held to highlight problems and deficits in the current education system. In a second phase, representatives of the student body worked together with the university management to draw up the Cottbus Education Declaration, which was signed by the President and representatives of the Student Council and the Student Parliament on December 4, 2009. In this declaration, the university management and the student body expressed their solidarity with the nationwide protests and, among other things, called for an improvement in the staff-student ratio through more staff. In a plenary meeting on December 9th, 2009, the student body reaffirmed the Cottbus education declaration without agreeing to intensify the protests (e.g. occupation of the Audimax).

With the beginning of the 2010/2011 winter semester, the number of students reached a new high with over 6600 enrolled students, which was exceeded again in the 2011/2012 winter semester. In the 2012/13 winter semester, 119 professors, 594 research assistants and almost 7,000 students belonged to the BTU Cottbus, around 1,050 of whom were of foreign origin from 89 nations.

Despite an excellent development in student numbers and very good placements in the university rankings, Brandenburg's Minister of Science Sabine Kunst announced on February 10, 2012 the goal of uniting the BTU with the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences to form a new energy university. In doing so, it was based on the result of the Lausitz Commission, which recommended greater cooperation between the two educational institutions. As a result, BTU members launched a popular initiative to preserve the Lusatian universities. Following a resolution by the Brandenburg State Parliament , the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus and the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences merged on July 1, 2013 to form the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Awards

In the ranking of the Center for University Development (CHE), the BTU Cottbus took top positions in the fields of architecture, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and industrial engineering in a nationwide comparison. The facilities at the university and the supervisory relationship between lecturers and students were positively highlighted. In the surveys of the subjects of industrial engineering (2008) and architecture (2010), the BTU was rated as the best university in Germany.

According to the library index of the German Library Association and the Bertelsmann Foundation, the university library was one of the best academic libraries in Germany and was named Library of the Year in 2006.

The university has received several awards from the German government's location initiative Germany - Land of Ideas . In 2006, the university library was one of the 365 places in the Land of Ideas . In 2008 the BTU research center Panta Rhei became a selected location and in 2009 the BTU research project Artificial Water Catchment Area in the Welzow-Süd opencast mine .

Faculties and institutions

The BTU Cottbus was finally divided into four faculties , four central scientific institutions and four operating units.

Central scientific institutions

  • Center for Energy Technology Brandenburg (CEBra)
  • Research Center for Landscape Development and Mining Landscapes (FZLB)
  • Human Ecological Center (HÖZ)
  • Center for Law and Administrative Sciences (ZfRV)
  • Center for the modeling and recording of complex flow processes (CFTM²)

Lausitz University of Applied Sciences

Logo of the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences
University library in Senftenberg (former university library)

The Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, founded in 1991, and from January 13, 2009 Lausitz University of Applied Sciences ( FH Lausitz ) emerged from the Senftenberg mining engineering school founded in 1947. In October 1991, the state government decided to found the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, which was then opened in Senftenberg. At the beginning of 1992, the university took over the properties and the workforce of the former Senftenberg engineering school. The university's study locations were in Cottbus and Senftenberg , the canteens at both locations were operated by the Frankfurt (Oder) student union . The study location Cottbus emerged from the former barracks Cottbus-Sachsendorf.

The academic senate of the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences decided on January 13, 2009 that the university with its study locations Senftenberg and Cottbus would be named "Lausitz University of Applied Sciences" from January 15, 2009. Most recently, around 3500 students (including around 300 foreign students from over 40 countries) were enrolled at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences. Günter H. Schulz held the presidency.

On July 1, 2013, it merged with the BTU Cottbus to form the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and thus ended its existence as an independent university. The study locations Cottbus-Sachsendorf and Senftenberg have been part of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg since then.

social commitment

The university supports barrier-free studies with the study center for barrier-free teaching and research. At the study center, students worked as tutors to help other students with disabilities work through scripts, assisted with taking notes and created tactile graphics. Blind students in computer science, business administration and social work in particular received technical support with a Braille printer , blind PC workstation, digitized textbooks and other aids. There were students with other types of disabilities in all courses, including the former high-performance gymnast Ronny Ziesmer in the biotechnology course. In the structural design of the campus, attention was paid to ensuring that wheelchair users are barrier-free through ramps, elevators and automatic doors.

Gottlob Schumann Prize

The university has awarded the Gottlob Schumann Prize for outstanding graduate theses every year since 1999 . The university thus reminded of the entrepreneur Gottlob Schumann , who “became the founder of the economic boom in Lusatia ” through his work .

Faculties and institutions

  • Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science (Faculty 1)
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences (Faculty 2)
  • Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Music Education (Faculty 3)
  • Faculty of Building (Faculty 4)

BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

Time after the merger (2013 to 2018)

After the merger of the two previous universities in accordance with the founding law "[...] for the restructuring of the Lusatia higher education region" passed by the Brandenburg state parliament on February 11, 2013, July 1, 2013 is the official founding date of the new university. On February 5, 2013, the Brandenburg Science Minister Sabine Kunst presented the new founding commissioner Birger Hendriks for the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, who took over the management of the university from July 1, 2013 until the appointment of a founding president. The election of the founding senate and the extended founding senate took place on October 17, 2013. On December 18, 2013, with the election of the student parliament, the first joint student representation of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg was elected.

After the search committee had voted in favor of Jörg Steinbach as president in June 2014 , Minister of Science Sabine Kunst proposed him to the extended founding senate. In the meeting on June 25, 2014, the extended founding senate and Sabine Kunst established the agreement required in the founding law so that Jörg Steinbach could be appointed by the minister as the founding president of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg on July 11, 2014. Steinbach took office on July 16, 2014. The inauguration took place with Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke and Science Minister Art on October 15, 2014.

Positioning the university in structural change (since 2018)

When he switched to politics as Brandenburg's Minister of Economic Affairs, Steinbach resigned from his post on September 19, 2018, which Christiane Hipp has continued as interim president since then. In particular, the regional importance of the university as mediation during the structural change in Lusatia as part of the planned discontinuation of lignite mining was further elaborated during her term of office. However, the problem of falling student numbers persisted and only slowly weakened towards the end of Hip's term of office.

On July 16, 2020, Gesine Grande was proposed as officially elected new President by the Senate of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. According to her own statements, she wants to make it her business to further strengthen the regional and supra-regional awareness of the BTU and to profile the university, especially in the context of its specializations. The integration of a medical faculty (including a corresponding course ) into the existing university should also be further examined and targeted.

structure

Faculties

Since April 1, 2016, the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg has been divided into six faculties:

  • Faculty 1: MINT - mathematics, computer science, physics, electrical engineering and information technology
  • Faculty 2: Environment and Natural Sciences
  • Faculty 3: Mechanical engineering, electrical and energy systems
  • Faculty 4: Social Work, Health and Music
  • Faculty 5: Economics, Law and Society
  • Faculty 6: Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning

Scientific institutions

  • Center for Energy Technology Brandenburg - CEBra Research
  • Research Center for Landscape Development and Mining Landscapes (FZLB)
  • Center for Sustainable Landscape Development (ZfNL)
  • Center for Law and Administrative Sciences (ZfRV)
  • Center for Flow and Transport Processes (CFTM²)
  • German-Polish Center for Public Law and Environmental Network (GP PLEN) / German-Polish Center for Public Law and Environmental Protection - joint scientific institution of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the University of Wrocław (Breslau)
  • Student Acquisition and Study Preparation Center - College

Faculty facilities

  • Institute for floating structures
  • Institute for Energy-Optimized Location (EOS)
  • Institute for Inverse Modeling (IIM)
  • Center for accessible studies

Operating units

Information, communication and media center (IKMZ) of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

IKMZ

Students in the IKMZ

The Information, Communication and Media Center (IKMZ) was initially a facility of the BTU Cottbus, in which the university library, the computer center, the multimedia center and the company data processing were combined under one management and, during the merger, became part of the BTU Cottbus -Senftenberg over. The university library has a total of 600 workstations with over 900,000 media, over 750 current magazines and around 10,000 e-books on seven floors (status: 2010). The IKMZ building was designed by the renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron and has been the university's new landmark since its completion in 2004. In 2007 it received the Great Nike architecture prize and a Nike in the “overall architectural expression” category.

Further operating units

Other operating units of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg include the computer center, the central language facility, the training center, the central university sports facility and the central workshop.

Central Unit Languages ​​(ZSp)

Language training for students and university staff takes place in the language center. The range of language courses has now comprised a total of twelve foreign languages ​​at different levels. In addition to the common foreign languages ​​such as English, French and Spanish, less common languages ​​such as Greek and Swedish were taught before the merger. For foreign students there are intensive German courses every semester that can be completed with the German language test for university entrance (DSH). The language center became a member of the working group of language centers , language teaching institutes and foreign language institutes (AKS), an association for foreign language teaching at German universities.

Central University Sports Unit (ZEH)

The University Sports Central Unit organizes university sports and organizes courses and competitions on the BTU campus.

Biotechnology center in Senftenberg

Education

With the winter semester 2009/2010, all courses were converted to Bachelor and Master according to the guidelines of the Bologna Process . Enrollment in diploma courses was only possible for those moving to higher semesters when diploma courses were about to expire. As a rule, enrollment for bachelor’s courses is only possible in the winter semester, and sometimes also for the summer semester for master’s courses. The courses in Environmental and Resource Management , Euro Hydro-Informatics, Water Management , World Heritage Studies and Heritage Conservation and Site management are taught entirely in English. A stay abroad at one of the BTU partner universities is compulsory for these courses.

courses

  • Applied chemistry (Bachelor / Master) at a university of applied sciences
  • Applied Mathematics (Master) university
  • Architecture (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Building and maintaining (master's) university
  • Civil engineering (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Vocational education for health professions (Master) at university
  • Business administration (Bachelor / Master) at a university, (Bachelor) at a university of applied sciences
  • Biotechnology (Bachelor / Master) at a university of applied sciences
  • Cyber ​​Security (Master) university
  • eBusiness (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Electrical engineering (Bachelor / Master) at a university, (Bachelor / Master) at a technical college
  • Environmental and Resource Management (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Euro Hydro-Informatics and Water Management (Master) university
  • Forensic Sciences and Engineering (Master) university
  • Heritage Conservation and Site Management (Master) university
  • Instrumental and vocal pedagogy (Bachelor) at a technical college
  • Computer science (Bachelor / Master) at a university, (Master) at a technical college
  • Information and media technology (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Climate-friendly construction and operation (Master) at a university of applied sciences
  • Culture and technology (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Land use and water management (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Mechanical engineering (Bachelor / Master) at a university, (Bachelor / Master) at a technical college
  • Materials chemistry (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Mathematics (Bachelor) university
  • Medical informatics (Bachelor) university
  • Renewable raw materials and renewable energies (Master) university
  • Nursing Science (Bachelor) at a university of applied sciences
  • Physics (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Power Engineering (Master) university
  • Social work (Bachelor / Master) at a university of applied sciences
  • Urban and regional planning (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Technologies of biogenic raw materials (Bachelor) university
  • Therapy Sciences (Bachelor) at a university of applied sciences
  • Environmental engineering (Bachelor / Master) university
  • Urban Design - Revitalization of Historic City Districts (Master) university
  • Processing technologies of materials (Master) university
  • Process engineering (Bachelor) university
  • Process engineering - process and plant engineering (Master) university
  • Industrial engineering (Bachelor / Master) at a university, (Bachelor / Master) at a university of applied sciences
  • Business Mathematics (Bachelor) university
  • Business law for technology companies (Master) university
  • World Heritage Studies (Master) university

Semester fees and semester ticket

A semester fee of 321.03 euros is charged for studying at BTU Cottbus.

This contribution was made up of the fees for the student union , the student body, the matriculation fees and the fees for the semester ticket. Otherwise no further tuition fees will be charged.

The semester ticket, which makes up a large part of the semester fee at 185.03 euros, allows students to use all public transport in Berlin and Brandenburg ( VBB overall network) as well as the RE18 and RE15 train lines to Dresden Hauptbahnhof . The approved IC / EC long-distance trains can be used within Berlin-Brandenburg with the semester ticket.

International partnerships

As a university with a high proportion of foreign students, the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg maintains relationships with partner universities worldwide. A student exchange is possible via the Erasmus + program or the university's own exchange program STUDEXA . The BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg is currently working in 266 partnerships with 160 universities in 53 countries.

Study and family

The university pursues various measures to make working and study conditions as family-friendly as possible. Flexible working hours apply to employees (part-time work, flextime work, time off for overtime). At the BTU, partners of newly appointed professors and scientists as well as executives in the area of ​​central administration and service facilities are supported in particular if they have to give up their sphere of activity due to the change of partner to the BTU.

Central components of company health management are occupational health and safety, company integration management, health promotion and a culture of advice and prevention.

There are special regulations for students in the study and examination regulations that accept maternity protection and children's illness as separate reasons for extending deadlines.

For the winter semester 2008/2009, a parent-child room was set up in the main building, which is designed to be child-friendly and provides parents with a workplace for completing official and study tasks. For the day care of the children, the Studentenwerk operates its own day care center for up to 125 children. In the canteen on the central campus there is a children's play area with high chairs and a separate changing room. Furthermore, upon request, the Studentenwerk pays a welcome fee of 50 euros for each newborn of a registered BTU student. For these measures, the university was certified by the Hertie Foundation in 2009 and 2013 and recognized as a particularly family-friendly university.

Primary residence model Cottbus

The city of Cottbus's primary residence model grants students an annual grant of 200 euros for three years from the first application, provided that the student was registered in at least two municipalities in Germany and has registered their main residence in Cottbus . This grant must be applied for annually from the City of Cottbus.

Student leisure bonus Senftenberg

Students in Senftenberg who have relocated their sole or main residence to Senftenberg for the purpose of studying receive a municipal welcome fee of 100 euros per year. The welcome money is paid out in the form of vouchers that can be issued in cultural and sports facilities, restaurants and bookshops.

Student projects and associations

The chair of media technology maintains a fully equipped television studio on campus, which is used for the production of the student television channel CampusTV. Students from various disciplines produce a half-hour program there every month with reports, features and interviews about student life in Cottbus and Senftenberg.

The university is also providing its own team for Formula Student , a student design competition to build your own racing car. In addition to successfully participating in an international race, the aim of this competition is to create a good overall package of construction, financial planning and sales arguments.

The Lausitz Dynamics team has been participating in the Shell Eco-marathon, which is held around the world and focuses on energy efficiency, since 2009. The students have been working on vehicles that run on renewable energies for years. They started the 2017 marathon in London with a battery-powered prototype vehicle.

Every Wednesday the Unikino Cottbus presents selected films in the student club Muggefug e. V. The films run alternately in German and English and serve different genres. At the beginning of each winter semester, the organization team Infowoche (OTIWO eV) organizes an introductory and introductory week for the new students. Every year, in addition to the paddling tour, the city rallye is an integral part of the event.

Further student associations (selection):

  • OTIWO e. V. → Organization Team Info Week e. V.
  • Jalta.consultants e. V. (student management consultancy)
  • Stock exchange club Cottbus e. V.
  • Association of German Industrial Engineers University Group Cottbus e. V.
  • eCampus-Lausitz e. V.

Campusse and university life

Campus location

View from the main building to the central campus square
The city harbor is located near the Senftenberg campus

The Cottbus central campus is located northwest of the old town and has an area of ​​over 300,000 m². A few chairs in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering are further away from the actual campus and can often be reached on foot. The Spree Galerie shopping centers , Blechen Carré and the Lagune sports and leisure pool are in the immediate vicinity of the campus . The Cottbus main train station is about 1.5 km away and can be reached directly from the campus via bus lines 15 (-44), 16 and 47.

The Studentenwerk Frankfurt / Oder operates a main canteen on campus, which serves around 2500 meals a day for students, employees and guests of the BTU. In the same building there is a cafeteria, a brasserie and small shops. The student residences on Universitätsstrasse and Erich-Weinert-Strasse are in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria. The student dormitory on Potsdamer Strasse is around 1 km away.

The Sachsendorf and Senftenberg campuses each have their own cafeteria and other leisure activities, such as the Senftenberger See , an artificially flooded former open-cast mine that is part of the Lusatian Lake District .

Culture

Student clubs

In the immediate vicinity of the university are the student clubs Muggefug , quasiMONO and stage 8 . The Muggefug and the quasiMONO serve as venues for concerts, cinema, cabaret and discos. Stage 8 also shows various rows of the student theater. Many university buildings on the campus itself, such as the central lecture hall building or the cafeteria, are well known throughout the city for student and private party series, cinema, lecture series and readings.

The student cellar (Stuk) in downtown Cottbus was closed in December 2007 after 35 years of party history. The reason for the closure were different ideas for the future between the operator and the lessor of the premises.

theatre

Since 1996 the student cabaret festival " Ei (n )fall" , organized by the Studentenwerk Frankfurt (Oder) and the student council of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, takes place every January with nationwide participation. In addition to the university's own buildings and stage 8, the venue is and was the Cottbus State Theater .

Concerts and festivals

Every year the student council of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg organizes a summer party with free open-air concerts on the BTU campus. Bands like Jennifer Rostock , Knorkator , Turbostaat , Ohrbooten , Juli , KIZ and Beatsteaks have already played there . Some of the campus was also used for commercial concerts, such as Wir sind Helden , Roland Kaiser .

other events

With the architecture competition Arch.stars , also organized by students, a forum for architecture students from all over Germany has been held since 2004. The winners of the competition were determined by the participants themselves and the audience. The exhibition took place at several locations in the city of Cottbus.

Sports

Students and employees of the university have the opportunity to take sports courses at the central university sports facility . In addition to classic sports such as soccer , handball , volleyball and boxing , the offer there also includes lesser-known sports such as ultimate , lacrosse , capoeira and rugby . A total of around 50 sports courses are offered by the university. The sports hall and the sports field at the northern end of the central campus are mainly used as training facilities. Individual sports courses such as American football , baseball or weight training are offered by the Cottbus University Sports Association .

The university is a member of the General German University Sports Association and regularly takes part in German sports competitions. The handball department of the then University Sports Club Cottbus was able to assert itself in the 2nd handball league from 2000 to 2003 . The volleyball team won the ADH-Pokal for universities with fewer than 10,000 students in Freiburg in 2005. In 2006, the basketball team in Ulm won the ADH-Pokal with a 47:31 final victory over the hosts and thus became German champions for the first time (in the universities up to 10,000 students category). The basketball team was able to defend this title in the following two years and only had to admit defeat against Kaiserslautern in the final in 2009, after 20 wins in a row. In 2011 they managed to win the championship again. At that time they prevailed with a clear 61:32 victory in the final against the University of Koblenz.

The university is a partner university of top-class sport and offers senior athletes special study conditions in order to avoid disadvantages due to the sporting engagement. Preparations for championships can be counted as vacation semesters and submission and examination dates can be adjusted.

art

The fountain of peace in front of the former student dormitories of the Cottbus engineering college.

Since 1997 there has been an Art and Campus Commission at the BTU, which campaigned for the preservation and reinstallation of works of art on campus. The newest work of art, called Universitas , was inaugurated in October 2009 in the foyer of the main building. It is a 2.20 meter ring made of solar modules, which is intended to indicate the ubiquity of electromagnetic energy. The light orbiter makes this energy visible by converting it into kinetic energy via the solar modules and an electric motor. Further art installations are planned in new buildings.

More works of art on campus

  • Fountain of Peace by Walter Heinrich (1986)
  • Sound installation by Rolf Julius (1999)
  • Passage by Jo Achermann (2001)
  • Kaleidoscope by Christian Eiser (2002, currently not installed)
  • Echo by Andreas Schmidt (2005)
  • Windshields by Hester Oerlemans (2006)

religion

The student community of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg is an institution of the Evangelical Church , is also open to university members of the Catholic faith.

research

Research profile

The BTU is a research-oriented university that focuses on both basic research and applied research. As a small technical university in Lusatia, the BTU faces up to its responsibility to act as a driver of innovation and internationalization in the region and thus to exert a positive influence on the current structural change in Lusatia. The BTU is also active internationally with its research focus and transfers its solution approaches on site to an international level.

With the university development plan for the years 2015 to 2020, the following four cross-faculty research fields were defined:

  • Smart Regions and Heritage
  • Energy efficiency and sustainability
  • Biotechnology, environment and health
  • Cognitive and reliable cyber-physical systems.

The aim of the research focus is, on the one hand, to strengthen the interdisciplinary nature of research currents in the BTU and, on the other hand, to specifically promote research topics in international demand, which the BTU has been pursuing intensively for years.

Research funding

Third-party funded research

The German Research Foundation currently supports the BTU through a graduate college (GRK 1913 "Cultural and Technical Values ​​of Historic Buildings"), a priority program (SPP 1655 "Wireless ultra-high-speed communication for mobile Internet access") and the "Physics of rotating currents" device center. Furthermore, the BTU is currently involved in two transregional projects, four priority programs and three research groups. The BTU has been cooperating with the Climate-KIC via a partnership agreement since July 2015; a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) set up by the EU Commission , which deals with research on all aspects of climate protection. This strategic cooperation particularly serves the main research areas “Smart Regions and Heritage” and “Energy Efficiency and Sustainability”. Various projects in the field of soil protection and recultivation are already funded by the Climate-KIC. Other priorities at the BTU funded by the EU research framework program Horizon 2020 are in the field of aviation, land and resource use, and international training for young talent (Innovative Training Networks of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie measures ).

Graduate Research School The Graduate Research School (GRS) of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg aims at the research profiling of the BTU in the above-mentioned four priority areas and offers funding and qualification offers for young scientists.

Research cooperation

The BTU works with a large number of non-university research institutions through cooperation agreements or joint professorships.

Knowledge and technology transfer

With its research portfolio, the BTU sees itself as an innovation engine in the region and sees an important task in technology and knowledge transfer. To this end, it has developed a joint transfer strategy with the Technical University of Wildau. The declared aim of both universities is to actively promote networking with the economy in the state of Brandenburg. This is particularly evident in the joint transfer project “Innovation Hub 13”, which is funded by the BMBF for the years 2018 to 2022 as part of the “Innovative University” funding initiative.

Research building for lightweight materials (Panta-Rhei-Halle)

Research building for lightweight materials (Panta-Rhei-Halle)

In the Panta Rhei gGmbH - Research Center for Lightweight Materials on the BTU campus, scientists work on developments in the field of production and processing of innovative lightweight materials. In cooperation with customers from business and industry, solutions are developed across the entire value chain.

Cooperations with business

In the field of automation technology, the BTU operates the "Innovationszentrum Moderne Industrie (IMI) Brandenburg", which supports small and medium-sized enterprises in Brandenburg in the automation and digitization of corporate processes. The BTU also works with the Center for Energy Technology Brandenburg (CEBra), which aims to network business and science and promotes this with experimental development work and technology transfer projects. As one of 30 technical universities worldwide and 4 across Germany, the university has the status of a University Technology Center (UTC) for the European engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce .

University politics and personalities

According to § 63 of the Brandenburg Higher Education Act, the president of the university manages the university under his own authority and responsibility and represents it externally. He also develops concepts for university development and coordinates research and teaching.

The Chancellor manages the university under the responsibility of the President and is responsible for the budget. He is appointed by the president.

The Senate is the highest body of the BTU and decides, among other things, on examination regulations and elects the President. In addition to six representatives from the group of professors, the Senate also includes two representatives from the group of academic staff, two representatives from the group of students and one representative from the group of other staff. The student representatives are elected annually by the student body, while the other members are elected every two years.

The student parliament (StuPa) is the legislative body of the student body. It determines the political strategy and the basic lines of current education and university policy. It also defines the structure of the student council (StuRa) and elects its speakers. In addition, it decides, among other things, on the budget of the student body. The student parliament is the highest decision-making body of the student body and generally consists of 30 members of parliament.

The student council (StuRa) is the executive body of the student parliament. He represents the student body internally and externally and is in direct contact with the student councils of the respective courses. There are various departments in the student council (e.g. university policy, culture, sport, social affairs, the environment), which were headed by different speakers.

President

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Chancellor

  • 1993–1998 ?: Peter Langer
  • 1999–2004: Ulrike Gutheil
  • 2005-2017: Wolfgang Schröder (after the successful judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of April 26, 2018, in 2019, by means of a settlement before the Federal Administrative Court, he waived the Chancellery)
  • 2018–2019: Peter Lange m. d. W. d. G. b.
  • since 2019: Alfred Funk

Professors

Honorary doctors

Honorary senators

athlete

literature

Web links

Commons : Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Brandenburgische Technische Universität  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self- image / University. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c m.tagesspiegel.de
  3. ↑ a b Senate of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg elects Prof. Dr. Gesine Grande as President. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Numbers and facts. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ BTU Cottbus: Start of studies for around 1000 freshmen. uni-protocol.de; Retrieved July 25, 2009
  6. ↑ Cottbus Education Declaration ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.2 MB) stura-cottbus.de; Retrieved March 5, 2010
  7. ↑ Press release on the general assembly of the student body of the BTU Cottbus on December 9, 2009 ( Memento from September 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) stura-cottbus.de; Retrieved March 5, 2010
  8. ↑ a b mission statement. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 2, 2012 ; Retrieved October 26, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Benjamim Lassiwe / boc: Lusatian university merger decided . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 23, 2013
  10. ↑ University ranking for architecture. ranking.zeit.de; Retrieved May 6, 2010
  11. ↑ University ranking for electrical engineering. ranking.zeit.de; Retrieved May 6, 2010
  12. ↑ University ranking for mechanical engineering. ranking.zeit.de; Retrieved May 6, 2010
  13. ↑ University ranking for industrial engineering. ranking.zeit.de; Retrieved May 6, 2010
  14. ↑ Results - database of the BIX The Library Index, online ( memento from February 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Internet pages of the BIX The Library Index, March 3, 2008
  15. ↑ press release tu-cottbus.de; Retrieved April 24, 2009
  16. ↑ Press release from the university ( Memento from February 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at www.hs-lausitz.de
  17. ↑ Manfred Götzke: A coffin in the Senate meeting room. Students protest against university merger in Brandenburg. In: Deutschlandfunk. July 1, 2013, accessed July 6, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Lausitz University of Applied Sciences awards Gottlob Schumann Prizes ( Memento from December 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release from the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences from November 27, 2009 on www.hs-lausitz.de
  19. ↑ Number of students, structural change, doctors. These are the challenges for the new BTU president. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  20. ↑ New president elected at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg | Video call to get to know Gesine Grande. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Faculties of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Retrieved September 29, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Central scientific institutions. Retrieved September 29, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Information, communication and media center of the BTU Cottbus: Library ( Memento from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) tu-cottbus.de; Retrieved April 16, 2010
  24. ^ Gallery of awards for the IKMZ . Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  25. ↑ Tasks and services of the language center ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) tu-cottbus.de; Retrieved April 2, 2010
  26. ↑ Information page about semester and tuition fees at the BTU . Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  27. ↑ unisolution: moveonline cooperations. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Family / university life: b-tu.de. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  29. ^ Dennis Steinbacher: Dual Career Service / Unileben: b-tu.de. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Health management / university life: b-tu.de. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  31. ↑ The BTU Cottbus receives the certificate for the “family-friendly university audit” for the second time. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  32. ↑ First residence model - City of Cottbus. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  33. ↑ Student Free Time Bonus. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  34. ↑ a b Research and University Technology Centers . Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rolls-royce.com
  35. ↑ J. Schulze: Cottbuser student cellar closes. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . December 8, 2007
  36. ↑ Central institution for university sports . accessed on September 18, 2019
  37. ↑ Results in basketball at the ADH Cup. adh.de; Retrieved April 19, 2009
  38. ↑ Cup stays in Cottbus - BTU basketball team is adh cup winner for the third time . Niederlausitz-aktuell.de, June 16, 2008; accessed on January 30, 2015.
  39. ↑ Art meets science in the new BTU building. lr-online.de; accessed on September 18, 2019
  40. ↑ Research Profile / Research: b-tu.de. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  41. ↑ IHP: IHP - Overview. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  42. ↑ Joint Lab BTU-CS - FBH Microwave: Department of High Frequency and Microwave Technology Ulrich-L.-Rohde Endowed Professorship - BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  43. ↑ Innovation Hub 13. Accessed October 2, 2017 .
  44. ↑ Panta Rhei gGmbH - Research Center for Lightweight Materials - BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  45. ↑ CEBra GmbH. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  46. ↑ Brandenburg University Act (PDF; 306 kB)
  47. ↑ Günter Bayerl, Hermann Borghorst, Walther Ch. Zimmerli (eds.): 20 years of Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus . Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2518-7 , p. 189
  48. ↑ BTU News. No. 45, 2016, p. 62, PDF (PDF)
  49. ↑ Ulrich Wenger receives an honorary doctorate from the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. March 16, 2016
  50. ↑ Awarding of an honorary doctorate to Michael von Bronk. 20th July 2016
  51. ↑ Awarding of an honorary doctorate to Professor Marek Bojarski. November 9, 2016
  52. ↑ The beginning of the semester of the DFG Graduate School “Cultural and Technical Values ​​of Historic Buildings” . 16th October 2017
  53. ↑ Honorary doctorate from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg for Prof. Dr. Andrey Ivanovich Rudskoy. 15th November 2017
  54. ↑ Bridges between experiment and theory. June 28, 2018
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