Past news

The city of Frankfurt (Oder) would like to present its budget more transparently and make it accessible at a lower threshold in order to make municipal activities and their financing even more comprehensible. This is to succeed from now on with the "interactive budget", a tool of the company Axians IKVS GmbH, which can now be viewed on the city website.

The city of Frankfurt (Oder) and the municipality of Słubice invite the residents of both cities to the second Frankfurt-Słubice Citizens' Picnic on cross-border urban development. The event will take place as part of the "European Festival of Neighbors" on Friday, May 12, 2023 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Plac Sybiraków in Słubice.

The education offices of the independent cities of Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice, Cottbus/Chóśebuz and Potsdam traveled together to Tornion Valley in Lapland as part of Erasmus funding for adult education. They met administrative leaders, teachers, and museum educators to learn how lifelong learning succeeds and what role local government plays.

In Frankfurt (Oder), there is a diverse project landscape. The existing projects and participation formats are summarized on the citizens' platform Frankfurt (Oder). Profiles and further information provide information on the individual offerings.

In terms of student satisfaction, the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) once again belongs to the top group in the nationwide university ranking of the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) and the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit". Students attested the European University Viadrina for the repeated time excellent study conditions with excellent support and outstanding study organization.

The small grants programs continue! There are still funds in the pots and the Aktion-Brandenburg team of agrathaer is looking forward again to exciting applications to your project ideas.

Further development of the Ziltendorf marshalling yard in cooperation with the port of Eisenhüttenstadt to ensure a sustainable freight transport infrastructure, also taking into account the existing and planned commercial and industrial areas in the Oderland-Spree region.

The annual statistical report 2022 of the district Märkisch-Oderland has been published.
In this is for the already 30th time a collection of data and facts from the most diverse subject areas of the district.

In order to protect breeding birds and their nesting sites, the cutting, planting or removal of trees, bushes, hedges and other woody plants in the period from March 1 to September 30 of each year is generally not permitted. Exceptions apply only with regard to the guarantee of traffic safety as well as gentle form and care cuts for the removal of the growth of the plants or for the health maintenance of trees.

The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) has a new leadership team. On the occasion of his inauguration as president of Viadrina, Prof. Dr. Eduard Mühle introduced the vice presidents on Thursday, April 27, 2023. They had been elected a day earlier by the University Senate.