This week sees the start of the Viadrina Children's University and for adults the program includes the lectures "Prussian Amber Diplomacy", "Soviet Troops in the GDR" and the exhibitions "Revolution of Dignity" and "Seminar Trip to Rwanda".

ALCARO Invest, an owner-managed and nationwide specialist for the development, operation and letting of logistics and commercial real estate, has received planning permission for the second logistics property in Log Plaza Frankfurt (Oder). René Wilke, Mayor of the City of Frankfurt (Oder), personally handed over the building permit yesterday to Peter Bergmann and Arne Haeger, the responsible project managers at ALCARO Invest.

From the 2024/25 school year, the Karl-Liebknecht-Gymnasium in Frankfurt (Oder) will be setting up a language learning class for Polish for the first time. This will enable even more pupils to learn the language – in future even from Year 5. The Ministry of Education (MBJS) and the city of Frankfurt (Oder) also see the offer as a further contribution to intensifying neighborly relations with Poland.

This week, the meeting of the Joint Committee of the European Twin City Frankfurt (Oder) – Słubice, the third workshop on the design of the Magistrale and the future dialog "East Germany has the choice" are on the agenda.

With the district reform in 1993, implemented under the then Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe, the independent city of Frankfurt (Oder) and the newly founded district of Oder-Spree officially became neighbors. After more than 30 years of good cooperation and neighbourly relations, there was a premiere on Tuesday, 20 February 2024: the administrative heads met together for the first time.

On February 23 and 24, 2024, it's time for Folk'n'Walde at the Parkclub Fürstenwalde! Two concerts and a session await you at the opening of the fourth edition of the festival. The second day of the festival is also filled with the most beautiful folk music, a workshop to get a taste of the world of folk dance and bal folk, further concerts and a folk session to make music together.

State Secretary Uwe Schüler from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg handed over a funding notification for 150,000 euros to District Administrator Gernot Schmidt at the train station in Müncheberg on February 2, 2024.

A new online portal from the Federal Employment Agency (BA) has been up and running at www.mein-now.de since the start of the year. With "meinNOW", people in employment, employers, the unemployed and further training providers have a central entry point for all topics relating to further vocational training. "meinNOW" offers guidance and information and makes the topic of continuing vocational training accessible to all interested parties digitally and in one place on the internet.

Florian Vogel, Artistic Director of the Kleist Forum, has extended his contract until the end of the 2026/27 season, ensuring the continued development of the theater's artistic work. "I am very happy to continue to take on the challenge of developing an ambitious and highly entertaining program for this wonderful theater for another three years ..."

What makes an entrepreneurial ecosystem and what role do the three success factors of creativity, communication and community play? The ERLab Days from May 27 to 29, 2024 will address these questions in a mixture of scientific conference and regional exploration in Berlin and Brandenburg.