The 2026 Training Award of the Metropolitan Region East builds on the successful Marzahn-Hellersdorf 2025 Training Award and expands it through supra-regional cooperation. It serves as a tool for location marketing and for sustainably strengthening the regional training landscape. The application phase will start during the career compass training and job fair from May 8 to 9, 2026.

The members of Mittlere Oder e.V., the German supporting association of the PRO EUROPA VIADRINA Euroregion, met on 11.12.2025 in Frankfurt City Hall for the ordinary general meeting. In addition to the 2024 annual financial statements, the working plan and budget for 2026 were also discussed and approved. The most important item on the agenda was the regular two-yearly election of the new Executive Board.

What does the Oder sound like? What do aquatic animals perceive and how does the river change human sensory perceptions? The intermedia performance "OderHive – a multisensory river journey to hear, see and feel" will get to the bottom of these questions on Thursday, January 29, from 5 p.m. at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

On Thursday, January 29, at 6 p.m., the Chairs of Popular Cultures and Social Philosophy at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) invite you to a filmosophy entitled "Lachrevue". This time the focus is on a rather ephemeral form of film: funny clips. In order to provide a diverse basis for discussion, the Filmosophy team is asking for support: they are looking for short clips with a length of one to five minutes.

The German-Polish exhibition "Art and Architecture in the Diocese of Lubuskie. Searching for traces in an undiscovered cultural landscape" began its journey through the former diocese area and through the Lubusz region. The exhibition will be on display at a total of 12 locations until the end of 2026, seven of which are in Poland and five in Germany.

On Sunday, January 25, 2026, from 11.00 a.m., political groups of the City Council (SVV) invite you to a New Year's meeting of the City of Frankfurt (Oder) in the atrium of the town hall. Following the speeches by the Chairwoman of the SVV Désirée Schrade and the Lord Mayor Dr. Axel Strasser, interested citizens will have the opportunity to enter into dialogue with the two and the members of the SVV present and to exchange views on local political issues.

The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) invites prospective students to an information day on campus on Saturday, January 24, from 11:00 a.m. The offer is aimed at anyone who is interested in starting their studies in April 2026 or who wants to get to know the entire range of courses at Viadrina from the winter semester 2026/2027.

On Saturday, 24 January 2026, the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium in Frankfurt (Oder), one of the two recognized mathematical, scientific and technical special schools in the state of Brandenburg, is hosting an open day from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm. Interested families – especially those with children in years 4 and 6 – can then get to know the school as a whole and the work of the various departments.

The German-Polish Youth Orchestra invites you to a New Year's concert entitled "Musik ohne Grenzen – Muzyka bez Granic" on Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 2.45 pm in the Nikolaisaal Potsdam. The young musicians from Germany and Poland will be performing together under the direction of Kornela Szczepańska and Hannes Metze-Stuyven.

With a joint inaugural lecture, two professors appointed to the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina in 2025 will introduce themselves to the public: Prof. Dr. Miriam Lind, Professor of Language Practices in Media Cultures, and Prof. Dr. Sarah Speck, Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology.