On Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 8:30 p.m. it's that time again: People all over the world symbolically turn off the lights for one hour. Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice are participating in this "Earth Hour" as a twin city. The lights at the City Hall, the European University Viadrina and the Collegium Polonicum go out.

Last week, the co-chairs of the Joint Committee of the European twin city Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice met to agree on the work plan for the committee's work in 2023.

A few days ago, around 40 representatives of the city administrations and city councils from Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice, as well as the Brandenburg Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning, the Joint Berlin-Brandenburg Planning Office and the Marshal's Office of the Lubuskie Voivodeship, met in the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice for a workshop on cross-border urban development in the twin city.

This year's water and dike show of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) will be carried out by the Environmental Agency - lower water authority - in accordance with § 111 and 112 of the Brandenburg Water Act (BbgWG) in the period from 27 to 30 March 2023 in the urban area.

The Faculty of Law at the European University Viadrina is offering the master's program "Mediation and Conflict Management" with a new concept in the winter semester 2023/24. The application deadline is May 15, 2023.

How do human actions, social values and cultural traditions shape developments in artificial intelligence (AI)? And what constitutes democratic, culturally sensitive and human-centered AI? International researchers will discuss these and other questions on Thursday, March 30, and Friday, March 31, at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

On Friday, March 24, 2023, the film "December storms. Or: Bumblebees on the butt of power. The End of the Stasi in Frankfurt (Oder)" will be shown. The film by Christian Booß is dedicated to the events of December 5, 1989, when several thousand Frankfurt residents gathered in front of the district administration of the State Security. They demanded entry and demanded the cessation of file destruction.

On October 1, 2022, the districts of Oder-Spree, Märkisch-Oderland, the city of Frankfurt (Oder), the district farmers' associations Oder-Spree and Märkisch Oderland and the city of Beeskow invited to the 1st regional and farmers' market ODERLAND-SPREE on the historic market square in Beeskow. Subsequently, the "Day of the Butter Bread" was celebrated at Beeskow Castle.

The focus of the competition was the workspace in the new staircase to be created, which connects the various floors, the historic hall as well as the atrium. The aim of the process was the artistic examination of the significance of the town hall as a central building of the democratic urban society - a place where decisions on urban development have been made for centuries and which will now, even more than before, be an open forum for the diverse urban society.

Term of nomination to 18 November extended - by the city administration Frankfurt (Oder) and with support of the savings bank Oder-Spree as well as of Antenne Brandenburg again the "honorary office of the year" is distinguished