When researchers don't sit in a lab or library, but instead make an audience laugh on stage on a Friday evening, it's time again for the Brandenburg Science Slam! For the fifth time, the presence centre is inviting scientists from all over Brandenburg to the Kulturfabrik in Fürstenwalde.

From May onwards, the presence centre will relaunch with a further developed concept at a new location in Beeskow. Under the new name Presence Centre Oderland-Spree | Beeskow, the Presence Centre is expanding its reach beyond municipal boundaries to the entire Oderland-Spree region and, with its local roots in the Alte Tischlerei in Beeskow, will also have a permanent location for exchange, networking and collaboration.

Just in time for the first warm rays of sunshine, the summer programme is ready. All events until the end of August have been released for booking. Visitors to the theatre located in the Oderbruch can look forward to many highlights and are invited to take a look behind the scenes at the open day.

On Saturday, 2 May and Sunday, 3 May, both Frankfurt and Słubice artists will open their studio doors as part of the nationwide Open Studio Days and invite art enthusiasts to get to know their work and the art scene in the twin city first hand.

Change at the top of the Landesstiftung in Neuzelle: Mario Quast will officially take over as Managing Director of the Neuzelle Abbey Foundation from Norbert Kannowsky, who is retiring, from 1 January 2027. He prevailed against 96 competitors in an extensive application process supported by an external personnel consultancy firm.

How can differences of opinion be respectfully resolved? Citizens from Frankfurt and Słubice are invited to exchange views with people from other European twin cities on 28 and 29 May. The meeting will focus on the question of how people in the European twin cities are dealing with the current hardening of world views and border issues.

The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) will be taking part in the 13th Potsdam Science Day on Saturday, 9 May 2026, with hands-on experiments and two lectures on the Golm campus of the University of Potsdam. Visitors to the research camp can look forward to a varied programme of workshops, experiments and multimedia presentations, including on smartphone use in families and the recognition of AI content, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

This peak season, there will once again be special public tours of St Mary's Church in Frankfurt (Oder). It starts on Wednesday, 6 May at 4.00 pm with the guided tour "Foray through the underworld – a guided tour to burial sites and through the cellar vaults of St Mary's Church". Further themed tours, e.g. to the choir windows, will follow until October.

Online participation still possible until 3 May! A public survey on the cycling concept for Frankfurt (Oder) is currently underway. Since 23 March, more than 120 responses have already been received from the public via the project website. Citizens can share their experiences and observations about cycle traffic and the cycle path network in Frankfurt (Oder) online at www.radfahren-ffo.de and use an interactive map to very precisely indicate danger spots and weak points and briefly explain the situation.

The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) opened the Viadrina Coworking Space in the centre of Frankfurt (Oder) on 15 April. In future, people will be able to learn, research and work here individually and collaboratively on around 1,500 square metres. The building was remodelled over five years at a total cost of 17.5 million euros. The result is an innovative, flexible space that will serve as a place to teach and work for Viadrina students, employees and founders, as well as facilitating encounters between the city and the university.