Past news

The latest measures to contain and monitor FMD pose considerable challenges for the authorities and businesses in the Märkisch-Oderland district.

Due to the digitization of administrative activities, increasingly only digital documents are available, from which digital archive material is formed. In order to take these over, preserve them and make them usable, the city archive needs a solution for digital long-term archiving, a so-called digital repository.

The second edition of the current city brochure "Schön hier, oder?" has been published. The publication provides facts and figures about Frankfurt (Oder) as well as an overview of city life, the districts and the dual city character, including the education, culture, leisure and sports on offer.

At the start of the new year, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Ostbrandenburg is setting a new course in knowledge transfer for companies: From January 13 to 17, 2025, it is offering a compact webinar week for the first time. Under the motto "MORE KNOWLEDGE. With the IHK", entrepreneurs and their employees from industry, trade and services can expand their know-how. From a total of 20 one-hour webinars, they can choose exactly those that are useful to them in their day-to-day business.

The Oder-Spree municipal job center is starting the new year with an anniversary: 20 years since it was founded in 2005. It was a time in which the Oder-Spree district faced an enormous challenge, as the unemployment rate was almost 20 percent. Since the job center was founded, the labour market situation has developed positively. Today, the unemployment rate is around 6.4 percent - a significant decrease that reflects a stable and sustainable development of the labor market.

The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) is intensifying its international networking. It has just become the first university in Brandenburg to be accepted into two renowned global university alliances.

Since Thursday, December 19, 2024 from 12:00 noon, Polnische Straße has been completely reopened to traffic after a full closure of around seven months. The road connection built in 2021 from Polnische Straße in the Frankfurt (Oder) South freight village (GVZ) to the B 112 was extended by an additional lane over a length of 700 m in order to increase the efficiency of public transport access to GVZ-Süd.

Wim Jonas Niemand from Neuenhagen and Friederike Schick from Altlandsberg accepted an unusual invitation to perform at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam on December 6. As a young piano duo, they were able to perform a piano concert in the state capital accompanied by the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt.

Great turnout on Tuesday at the fire department and disaster control technical center in Fürstenwalde - the Oder-Spree district handed over five vehicles to the municipalities.

Since December 18, the district of Märkisch-Oderland has had a completely revamped website. The new website with a sleek and modern design as well as a clear and user-friendly structure can be accessed at www.maerkisch-oderland.de.