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To promote innovative product developments and marketing concepts in rural areas, pro agro - Association for the Promotion of Rural Areas in the Brandenburg-Berlin Region e. V. is offering the "pro agro Marketing Award 2024 - natürlich Brandenburg!"

In August, a total of 14,039 people were registered as unemployed in the city of Frankfurt (Oder) and in the Märkisch-Oderland and Oder-Spree districts. That is 477 more than in July and 516 more than in August 2022. The unemployment rate rose to 6.3 percent. In July, it had been at 6.0 and in August last year at 6.1 percent.

On September 1, advance sales begin for all events in the new 2023/2024 season at the Kleist Forum. Tickets are available at the theater box office in the Kleist Forum as well as at the German-Polish Tourist Information in the Bolfrashaus or also free of charge in the online ticket store.

A new app guides families, school classes, children and young people playfully on the traces of the von Kleist family in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice. The tour can be downloaded free of charge via QR code to your own smartphone or used on a tablet borrowed from the tourist information office.

For the Frankfurt artist Ilusch, who is only 15 years old, a dream will become reality: from September 28 to November 4, ten of his works will be on display as part of a joint exhibition of young artists in the "Galeria Azur" in New York's most famous district of Manhattan. "This makes me insanely happy and honors me above all very much, after all New York is one of the world's art capitals," says Ilusch, who will be present at the vernissage.

Shortly after the start of the new school year, the fall semester 2023 also begins at the Adult Education Center (VHS) Frankfurt (Oder). The VHS offers a wide range of educational and meeting opportunities in the areas of languages, health, culture, society, basic education, IT and career. In addition, there is an offer of family education in the Parent-Child Center North of the Adult Education Center.

From August 26, 2023, another PlusBus line will start under the existing brand name PlusBus Oderland-Spree. Line 400 connects Beeskow and Eisenhüttenstadt according to the proven PlusBus criteria such as hourly frequency, direct connections to the train and regular trips on weekends.

The Messe und Veranstaltungs GmbH Frankfurt (Oder) is fit for the future and the demands of the modern event market. With an investment from the European Regional Development Fund, the leading cultural provider in East Brandenburg has been able to implement a number of forward-looking projects for the expansion of digitization in the Kleist Forum, the "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach" Concert Hall, the exhibition halls and the German-Polish Tourist Information Center.

A large number of road construction measures are also taking place this year on the district roads in Märkisch-Oderland. The district of Märkisch-Oderland currently maintains 178 km of district roads. In addition, there are numerous bridge structures and culverts. Extensive maintenance and investment measures are necessary to keep this road network in good condition over the long term.

The civil status registers up to the year 1909, the marriage registers up to 1929 as well as the registers of the incorporated localities and the registers of the Jewish and Catholic communities and the so-called dissidents kept by the local police until 1874 have been digitized. The digitized registers are available online in the Archive Portal-D of the German Digital Library.