Whether entrepreneurial inventiveness or research in the service of science - with innovative thinking and solution approaches in all areas and industries, ODERLAND-SPREE is responding to current challenges and changed living and working conditions. Sustainable, digital and modern - the region is excellently positioned for the future.

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Research in Frankfurt (Oder) © Mathias Eckert

On the pulse of time

Research is also at home in ODERLAND-SPREE. Several research institutes with outstanding expertise as well as the university research facilities make the region an attractive science location

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"Don't tell me that it doesn't work!"

To think nature and tradition, innovation and economic power, intelligently together - Oderland-Spree demonstrates it. This short quote from Regine Hildebrandt expresses how progress goes, namely with spirited pluck, overcome existing obstacles - it is a phrase from Oderland-Spree.

ROLF LINDEMANN | District Administrator of the Oder-Spree district

04.12.2025 | Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland

EMO launches Zero Waste Index

To mark European Waste Prevention Week, the Märkisch-Oderland waste management company (EMO) is launching the Zero Waste Index MOL – an online directory of regional companies, initiatives and facilities such as repair workshops, repair cafés, second-hand and unpackaged stores or rental services to help citizens live more sustainably and with less waste.

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