Proximity as Economic Driver. Interdependencies, Infrastructure, and Solutions in the German-Polish Border Region
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27 November 2025, 13:00-17:15
In presence at the Collegium Polonicum, "Small Auditorium", ul. Kościuszki 1, Słubice, PL
& in livestream
The dynamics and barriers of the present have long since affected not only global, but also regional European economic policy. German-Polish cooperation in particular has been under scrutiny not just since yesterday. Double border controls and everyday challenges stand in contrast to functioning regional cooperation and strong cross-border economic cooperation. On 27 November 2025, companies, research, administration, politics and the public will meet at the Collegium Polonicum Słubice to work practically on the future of the German-Polish economic area. The approach is simple: fewer speeches of principle, more action.
What it's all about:
- Use interdependencies: Germany and Poland are already closely intertwined. Poland is currently a key trading partner for Berlin-Brandenburg. We show where this is already generating orders, jobs and innovations today.
- Infrastructure: railway, bridges, A12 & logistics with experiences and voices from companies, science and administration.
- Hurdles and opportunities: From border controls to advisory infrastructures and authorisations: What slows things down and what solutions can be identified that will take effect tomorrow?
The aim is to noticeably strengthen the economic dynamism of the two major economies of Germany and Poland locally.
To the livestream [in German with automatic subtitles in English]
What you take away:
Informed assessments of the current situation, contacts on both sides of the Oder, docking points for entrepreneurial pilot projects and Interreg formats and the certainty that joint action in the Euroregion has a very tangible effect.
Afterwards we invite you to a drink from 17:00.
Language: German with simultaneous interpretation into Polish
Target groups: Companies, politics/administration, science, public
Organiser: IHK Ostbrandenburg - Bündnis pro Wirtschaft | weiter! denken - European University Viadrina (Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION, ERUA Hochschulallianz) & Collegium Polonicum
Registration at: https://events.ihk-ostbrandenburg.de/b?p=nachbarschaft-als-wirtschaftsmotor-DE