The Week at TU Braunschweig | 03.07.2026 Our Newsletter for all Employees

Topics: Learning Factory + Dog Noses + Asia’s Water Tower

Editor: János Krüger

► TU Braunschweig’s redesigned Lernfabrik opens

Practical learning, sustainable production: spanning over 400 square metres, the redesigned “Lernfabrik” combines modern production technology with digital learning environments, using batteries and electric vehicles as examples. Students, specialists and managers test technologies here for sustainable, digital and circular production.

► Dogs’ noses provide new clues about Long COVID

What sniffer dogs detect is made visible by mass spectrometry: Researchers from TU Braunschweig, MHH and TiHo have demonstrated a correlation between the assessments of trained dogs and AI-supported mass spectrometric analyses. The results provide new insights into disease-specific metabolic patterns and open up new avenues for diagnostic approaches.

► Traces of industry in the ‘Water Tower of Asia’

How are greenhouse gases and air pollution changing the Tibetan Plateau? An international research team led by TU Braunschweig uses sediments from Lake Nam Co to show how this sensitive ecosystem has changed over the past millennium. The results have been published in Nature Communications.

► Cooperation Instead of Coercion: A New Strategy for Plant Symbiosis

Researchers at TU Braunschweig discovered a family of peptides in black locust that gently regulates its nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The findings of the international team were published in Science Advances.

► Art meets research: First Ecoversity Artist-in-Residence

Artist Louise Ward Morris is working for three months at the Nitride Technology Centre at TU Braunschweig. In collaboration with the Science and Art Lab, this partnership opens up new perspectives on scientific processes – and demonstrates how both disciplines can benefit from one another.

► Research meets schools

The first five projects of the School Outreach Fund at TU Braunschweig have been selected. Researchers and educationalists are jointly developing new teaching and learning formats that adapt current research for the classroom. In this way, the university is strengthening the transfer of knowledge between the university and schools.

► Call for proposals: NEXT – Dual Use of Ideas from the Humanities and Social Sciences

Through this call for proposals, the Volkswagen Foundation is funding exploratory research projects on the unintended effects of concepts from the humanities and social sciences in political and ideological contexts. The deadline for applications is 6 October.

► Our favourites of the week

… are the ‘Applied Mechanics’ department (Institute of Applied Mechanics) and the fuel cell team (Institute of Internal Combustion Engines and Fuel Cells)! Both teams were honoured as ‘Best Research Environment’. The fuel cell team also received prize money of 10,000 euros. With this award, the Young Academy and the Volkswagen Foundation recognise inspiring, fair and supportive research conditions. Congratulations!

► Events
There is always something going on at TU Braunschweig. Discussions, information events, concerts and much more. Take a look at our calendar of events and get inspired.