Past news

Bad Freienwalde offers a comprehensive overview of the spa town and its surroundings on 68 pages in the new Reisejournal 2025.

The Senate of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) has elected Ira Helten as a student member of the Presidential Board. This makes the 24-year-old student the first representative of the student body in this newly created role.

The Oder-Spree district's Education, Culture and Sport Committee today decided on the applications submitted for cultural funding for the 2025 project year. The result: 29 cultural projects from the Oder-Spree district will receive funding this year.

Visit the campus, get to know the degree programs, ask any questions you may have about your future studies - all this is possible at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Info Day on Saturday, January 25. If you are thinking about studying at Viadrina and are looking for an interesting course of study from the summer semester 2025, you are cordially invited to find out more about studying at the European University in a personal conversation.

Sixth-grader Tom Kuke from Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium is this year's winner of the city-wide reading competition. He read from the book he chose himself, "Rico, Oscar and the Heartbreak" by Andreas Steinhöfel.

With the inauguration of the new US President Donald Trump, Brandenburg's CCIs see the need to see challenging times as an opportunity.

In January, Altranft officially took over the baton for the 20th Brandenburg Village and Harvest Festival, which will take place in Altranft on September 20, 2025! In addition, another highlight awaits us: 650 years of Altranft!

On 15.01.2025, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, Dr. Volker Wissing, presented the funding decisions to the representatives of the Märkisch-Oderland district in Berlin.

At the International Green Week, the Oder-Spree Lakeland Tourism Association was awarded first prize in the "Rural and Nature Tourism" category of the pro agro Marketing Prize for the second time in a row for its "Birdwatching" offer.

An initiative from the school administration office of the Oder-Spree district is being implemented via the "European Territorial Cooperation" (Interreg) funding program: The "Education connects" project, which was developed together with the vocational school center from Sulechów, sponsored by the Polish district of ZielonaGóra.