SAVE THE DATE – The training and skills fair in the Oder-Spree district will take place on 14 March 2026. All pupils, parents and families are cordially invited to attend from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Europaschule Oberstufenzentrum Oder-Spree, Palmnicken 1, Fürstenwalde/Spree! Discover a wide range of training and career opportunities and over 90 exciting companies as well as a colourful supporting programme on stage.

The Oderbruch Museum invites you to the opening of the season on 7 March at 11 a.m. at Altranft Castle. The five authors of the new workshop book NACHBARSCHAFT will read from their texts, which they wrote together with around 25 people in the Oderbruch region. There will be clever, thought-provoking and humorous insights into living together. The presentation of the museum's 10th workshop book will be accompanied by music from Sören Birke on the harmonica.

Demographic change is increasing the pressure on manual work processes. How can collaborative robots (cobots) provide support here? Experts from TH Wildau will provide a compact insight into human-centred automation, highlight practical fields of application and discuss where investments are worthwhile – and where they are not.

Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" can be seen at Frankfurt's Kleist Forum theatre on 6 and 8 March. The tragic love story of the geisha Cio-Cio-San, known as Butterfly, and the American officer Benjamin Pinkerton contains everything that makes a successful opera: strong emotions, drama and rousing melodies between Italian operatic tradition and Asian sounds.

With the arrival of spring, the Theater am Rand will start its new season on 7 March 2026, including the opening of the theatre restaurant Kleine Wirtschaft, which is run by Polish restaurateur Joanna Golab and her staff. With theatre performances, concerts, swap meets, cinema screenings, readings, cabaret and a dialogue lab, guests can look forward to a varied programme in an extraordinary private theatre in the Oderbruch region, right on the German-Polish border in Zollbrücke.

The inaugural meeting of the Helene Lake working group will take place on Wednesday, 4 March 2026 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Frankfurt (Oder) Town Hall, Marktplatz 1, Heilbronn room. The event is open to the public. Lake Helene, which is located in the Oder-Spree Lake District landscape conservation area, has been closed by the State Office for Mining, Geology and Raw Materials (LBGR) since May 2021 due to the massive risk of landslides on the shore areas.

The Brandenburg Women's Weeks are a nationwide political format regularly organised by committed women. This year's motto is "WTF – Anger meets Feminism" and brings together a variety of conferences, lectures, women's get-togethers, sporting competitions, festive events, workshops, exhibitions, etc. across the state, which form a clear counterweight to the increasingly harsh developments in a society that is becoming increasingly divided.

The new improvisational theater series "The Big 7" continues on 27 February at Frankfurt's Theaterhaus Kleist Forum. In this interactive show with the Berlin ensemble "Die Gorillas", the audience has the power. A wide variety of characters are improvised in moving monologues, rousing songs and funny scenes.

It is a pressing issue in almost every company: The introduction and use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly becoming part of everyday working life in companies and organisations. For employees, this development is often associated with a sense of threat.

The Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region is not getting off the ground economically at the start of 2026. The latest figures from the economic report of the Berlin and Brandenburg chambers of industry and commerce reveal the structural crisis. At 102 points, the economic climate index is now only slightly above the standstill mark (100 points). Two thirds of companies cite the economic policy framework conditions as the greatest risk to business development.