News from the region

On May 2, 2024, the networked further training advice service for companies and employees in Brandenburg will be available online at Interested companies and employees can use a contact form on the homepage to request a personal consultation within 48 hours.

Over the next two years, the city of Frankfurt (Oder) will develop the "Industriegebiet an der A12" (IG A12), which was secured under planning law with the B-Plan Statutes (BP-18-002) from 2013, in terms of media technology and traffic. The industrial area on the A12 is located south of the A12 freeway in the Frankfurt (Oder) district, directly next to the Frankfurt (Oder)-West freeway exit and south of the Frankfurt (Oder)-Süd freight village.

In summer 2024, the railroad theater Das Letzte Kleinod will go on tour with the performance HOTEL LUNIK about a HO hotel. For the performances in Frankfurt (Oder), the theater is still looking for reports from contemporary witnesses who have a connection to one of the Frankfurt HO hotels or even the HOTEL EINHEIT.

Slight spring recovery on the labor market / Under 14 thousand unemployed again in East Brandenburg: In the city of Frankfurt (Oder), the district of Märkisch-Oderland and the district of Oder-Spree, a total of 13,976 people were registered as unemployed in April. This is 267 fewer than in March and 334 more than in April a year ago. The unemployment rate fell slightly to 6.2 percent, compared to 6.3 percent in March.

The family center in the MehrGenerationenHaus MIKADO at Franz-Mehring-Straße 20 will be running a six-week "Educational Cooking" course for children aged six to ten from April 2024. The aim is not to achieve the perfect cooking result, but to allow children to get to know lots of different foods and taste sensations and to help decide what they want to try and process.

On March 21, the Praxisforschungsstelle (PFS) für Lebensmodelle im Alter auf dem Land was opened in the Heinersdorfer Kulturzentrum. It is a partner in the "Alterperimentale" transfer alliance between BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Berlin. The aim of the practical research center is to support older people in staying in their home village for as long as possible and actively shaping their lives in old age. The aim is to conduct research together with them and develop suitable living models for the region.