Termine und News

Despite economic challenges: Brandenburg’s businesses continue to invest in the next generation of skilled workers – chambers of commerce report positive results at the start of the training year. Furthermore, there are still very good prospects for a successful start to a career. 

Over the next few years, Telekom is to build a fibre-optic network in Frankfurt (Oder) to serve 26,800 households and businesses. To this end, the city and Telekom have today signed a joint memorandum of understanding. 

Good healthcare is a key factor in a town’s appeal – both for the people of Eisenhüttenstadt and for the town’s attractiveness as a place to live and do business. That is why the town is now providing its own financial boost.

To promote innovative product development and marketing concepts, pro agro is organising the 28th edition of the “pro agro Marketing Award – naturally Brandenburg!”. The award is intended to recognise innovative products, creative marketing ideas and successful concepts from rural areas of Brandenburg. 

Lower rainfall, increasingly frequent dry spells and the effects of the phase-out of coal are posing major challenges for water management in eastern Germany. At the same time, water demand is rising due to economic development, new industrial settlements and the transformation of the economy and energy supply. 

Under the theme ‘Oderland-Spree 2030+’, key stakeholders from the region gathered at Neuzelle Abbey in spring 2026 for the second meeting of the Oderland-Spree Steering Group. Discussions on future issues relating to the development of commercial land, mobility and regional cooperation centred on the shared goal of developing viable strategies for strong and sustainable regional development.

On 2 July 2026 in Bernau, the East Brandenburg Chambers of Commerce and the ‘Netzwerk Zukunft’ network honoured 19 businesses, companies and organisations that are actively involved in careers guidance and had been nominated by schools. These entrepreneurs are particularly committed to providing career and higher education guidance in their home regions; they offer school pupils work experience placements or company tours and present their apprenticeship programmes at secondary schools and grammar schools.

On 10 July, the city of Frankfurt (Oder) received a planning application for a new project by Alcaro. According to the application, the logistics and property company will continue to invest in the expansion of its Frankfurt (Oder) site and plans to build a new warehouse. This Hall C is to cover an area of 20,000 square metres and be built on a 40,000-square-metre plot. 

With the Infrastructure for the Future Act, which has now been passed by the Bundestag, eight key projects for East Brandenburg – for which the East Brandenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce has long been campaigning – have also been set in motion.

The RE 1 regional express line is one of the busiest regional express lines in Germany. The signatories of this appeal therefore welcome Deutsche Bahn’s announcement that it will invest in the modernisation of this line. Nevertheless, the construction work must not cut off the capital region, Eastern Brandenburg and the neighbouring Polish region from one another for months on end, as this would have drastic consequences for a large number of businesses, workers and institutions in Eastern Brandenburg and Poland.