Past news

The Agency for Renewable Energies e. V. (AEE) honors the Oder-Spree district as Energy Community of the Month in February.

On Sunday, February 9, 2025, another PlusBus line will start in the district under the name "PlusBus Oderland-Spree".

At the first international conference on the future of Europe, the Ministry for Regional Policy and EU Funds invited the twin city of Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice as a positive example of the use of subsidies from the EU Cohesion Fund.

In order to further develop the Oder-Spree district as a municipal healthcare and care location and make it fit for the future, the Oder-Spree district has set out to bundle Oder-Spree Krankenhaus GmbH, Rettungsdienst im Landkreis Oder-Spree GmbH and Seniorenheime des Landkreises Oder-Spree gGmbH into a single association under one umbrella brand.

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.