After years of intensive work by many stakeholders, the steering and budget committee (StuBA) of the federal and state office for lignite remediation made a decision last week that was not only fervently hoped for in Frankfurt (Oder). According to the decision, the federal mining rehabilitation company, Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbh (LMBV), will be responsible for the rehabilitation of Lake Helene near Frankfurt (Oder), which has been closed as a bathing area for almost four years.

At last! Spring is fluttering its blue ribbon through the air again and the desire for exercise in the fresh air is increasing! The spa town offers, among other things, the ascent of the four Bad Freienwald towers, which are open again from Good Friday, March 29 and invite you to an Easter egg hunt on March 31.

The family center in the MehrGenerationenHaus MIKADO at Franz-Mehring-Straße 20 will be running a six-week "Educational Cooking" course for children aged six to ten from April 2024. The aim is not to achieve the perfect cooking result, but to allow children to get to know lots of different foods and taste sensations and to help decide what they want to try and process.

From 14.4. to 20.4.2024, the "Kick your future: One week, many opportunities" campaign week invites future trainees, skilled workers and employees to find out about training opportunities, jobs, job profiles and companies at four events in the region - whether at the open day in hotels and restaurants in Strausberg and the surrounding area, the "2nd Neuhardenberg Job Festival", the "Big Boss Dating" training fair in Hoppegarten or the "Logistics Day" at GVZ Freienbrink.

The band KARAT's 50th anniversary tour will take them to the Messehallen Frankfurt (Oder) on March 8, 2025. Fans of absurd ventriloquist comedy will get their money's worth on 10 May 2025 when Sascha Grammel makes a guest appearance in the exhibition halls with his wondrous crowd of puppets and the program "Wünsch dir was!". And even more program highlights await you.

Applications open until April 7: This summer, a joint delegation from Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice will once again set off to represent the Hanseatic twin city at the most important Hanseatic meeting of modern times. Interested citizens from both cities are invited to join the travel group and become part of the Hanseatic togetherness in the middle of the historic old town of Gdansk.

On Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 8.30 p.m., people all over the world will symbolically switch off the lights for one hour. Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice are also taking part in this "Earth Hour". The lights on the buildings of the European University Viadrina and the Collegium Polonicum will be switched off.

With "Mephisto", Frankfurt's Kleist Forum is presenting a substantial theatrical version of Klaus Mann's novel of the same name on March 23 and 24. The guest performance by the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam tells the story of a German everyman who has to choose between career and ideals and succumbs to the fascination of evil. Half an hour before the performance begins, there will be an introduction to the play in the foyer with dramaturge Christopher Hanf.

Lecture as part of the Viadrina Mentoring – On Thursday, March 21, Claudia Müller, Managing Director of the Female Finance Forum, will speak on the topic: "Money makes the world go round: You, your money and your life decisions." The lecture and a subsequent panel discussion on structural discrimination and the financial freedom of women is part of this year's opening and closing event of the Viadrina Mentoring Program in the Senate Hall in the Viadrina main building in Frankfurt (Oder).

Dr. Olesia Lazarenko from the Ukrainian Lectureship at the Viadrina Language Center is offering the free intensive course "Journey through Ukraine: Language and Culture" from Tuesday, 19 March in the university building at August-Bebel-Straße 12. It is aimed at anyone who is learning or has already learned Ukrainian as a foreign language and would like to improve their language skills and learn about the history of some Ukrainian cities and famous cultural sites.