The Week at TU Braunschweig | 13.03.2026 Our Newsletter for all Employees

Topics: Safe airspace + Campus run + Icy master’s thesis

Editor: Elisabeth Hahn 

► TU Braunschweig strengthens its role as a battery hotspot

The Battery Labfactory (BLB) has had three new facilities since 6 March. They were financed with over 10 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. This further expands the regional network BLB+’s leading role in industry-oriented battery research.

► Greater safety through better coordination of air and space traffic

Airspace is not only traversed by aeroplanes – spacecraft also cross it during take-off and re-entry. To make traffic there safer, the European Space Agency has commissioned the TU Braunschweig spin-off OKAPI:Orbit to develop an interface between space and air traffic management in collaboration with our university and the DLR.

► Inaugural lecture

Prof. Vincent Oettel, Institute of Building Materials, Concrete Construction and Fire Safety, will hold his inaugural lecture “Effizientes Bauen mit Beton – automatisiert, modular und nachhaltig” on 19 March.

► Equal opportunities concern us all!

… says TU Equal Opportunities Officer Ulrike Wrobel. On the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March, she looks back on her work over the last five years and explains why there is still much to be done.

► Mail from Sweden

… sent to us by Philip Kreutzheide, a student on the Master’s programme in Computational Sciences in Engineering. As part of his Master’s thesis at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, he spent four weeks in Gothenburg at Chalmers University of Technology.

► Registration for the 16th Campus Run

Whether alone or in a team: on 31 May, the university will once again be competing in a running race. Registration for the 5 km fun run and the 10 km main run is possible here.

► “Joint Undertaking Bio-based Europe”: 2026 work programme published

The partnership between the European Commission and the Bio-based Industries Consortium is providing €170 million this year to promote sustainable and competitive bio-based innovation. The call for tender (CFT) opens on 23 April and applications can be submitted until 22 September.

► Our darling of the week

… takes us to Antarctica: Pinar Dogantekin is spending two months aboard the research vessel “Polarstern”. The student of the degree programme “Culture of the Techno-scientific World” is accompanying an expedition by the Alfred Wegener Institute for her master’s thesis. Her goal: to find out how scientists and crew work together to make research in the eternal ice possible.

► 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.