Diversity is a big strength for businesses – when it’s practiced in everyday culture
In conversation with Anja Dargel, General Representative at Berliner Sparkasse, and Bessie Fischer-Bohn, Head of HR at WISTA Management GmbH:
WISTA is again hosting the Diversity Conference Adlershof. Why is this an important topic? Bessie Fischer-Bohn: We offer a framework for sustainable economic growth at Adlershof Technology Park. For a long time, this…
»Diversity isn’t an added bonus – it’s our only chance«
A conversation with diversity expert Wolfgang Jockusch about hesitation and fears, inclusive leadership, and why companies can’t afford to ignore diversity:
Everyone’s talking about diversity, but what does it actually mean? Wolfgang Jockusch: First and foremost, diversity is a fact. People are and always have been diverse. Unfortunately, the topic often gets narrowed…
Inclusive cleanroom on wheels
The start-up Sphaira from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC develops electric vehicles for transporting patients:
It comes as no surprise that feelings of isolation are common in isolation wards. Whether the patients are younger or older, being cut off from the outside world for weeks, and sometimes months on end, takes a toll on…
Berlin Adlershof: Companies surpass 4 billion euros in revenue for the first time and continue to be optimistic about the future
Germany’s largest Science and Technology Park doubles its revenue in just eight years:
The Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof continued its positive development in 2024. Revenues and budget funds rose by 3.5% to over 4.0 bn. euros (2023: 3.9 bn. euros). The number of employees grew by 1,100 to…
Berlin Adlershof: Facts and figures
Berlin Adlershof is Germany’s largest and most successful Science and Technology Park as well as Berlin’s largest media location—embedded in an overall urban development concept. Spanning an area of 4.6 km², the park…
Dr Kristin Klaue receives 2024 Adlershof Dissertation Award
The chemist lays the foundation for targeted, light-based medicine with photoswitchable molecules:
On 20 March 2025, the Adlershof Dissertation Award was granted for the 23rd time in a row. Dr Kristin Klaue received the 3,000 euro prize, which is donated and organised annually by the research network IGAFA e. V.,…
Adlershof Journal March/April 2025
A changing tech oasis: This is how Adlershof stays on course for the future:
ESSAY by Ebba Lund: A promising future for innovation spaces worldwide IN CONVERSATION WITH Daniel Rosón Eichelmann, who wants to network stakeholders in a more targeted way PROFILE The IT developer: Georg Wrobel…
Magnets for smart minds
Why tech hubs will continue to be important drivers of growth:
Are technology parks becoming obsolete in an era of hybrid work? Not at all. Head to Adlershof to experience how tech hubs bring together smart minds to create thriving companies. Soon, JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH…
No two days are the same
They are three out of 34,000: What it means to work in Germany’s largest technology park:
Monday, 7.30 amStephan Möllers has been up for two hours. Setting off from Panketal, he’s now on the S8 train on his way to Adlershof. At Storkower Straße station, Alina Schmalz gets on the train, too. A few moments…
In conversation with Daniel Rosón Eichelmann
Network manager in the technology centres at WISTA Management GmbH:
Daniel Rosón Eichelmann believes that the right spaces are vital for people to connect and create new things together. He is passionate about well-designed public spaces and unconventional work environments that…
A morning at ST3AM
Vox pops from the new world of work:
Every person needs a “third place”, wrote the American sociologist Ray Oldenburg in 1989. Unlike a person’s home or place of work, The Great Good Place, as he called it, functions somewhat like the café in the sitcom…
A place for personal exchange
Matthieu Voss wants to develop the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre into a public space:
The Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) recently saw a change of leadership. Matthieu Voss moved in, bringing his ideas with him. Who is the new boss, and what vision does he have for CHIC? Voss reveals that he…
Scouts in the sky: how vultures and satellites protect Africa’s wildlife
Nanosatellites from the Charlottenburg company Rapid Cubes help in the fight against poaching:
Elephants and rhinos often steal the spotlight in efforts to protect Africa’s wildlife. A groundbreaking project called GAIA is now bringing in unexpected helpers: vultures, nanosatellites, and the expertise of the…
»Stirring up excitement«
Created by Freie Universität Berlin, Scale Up Lab of will be one of the first tenants at FUHUB, which is part of the WISTA-managed Zukunftsort Berlin-Südwest:
Bio and life science research—particularly fundamental research—often operates on the barely imaginable nanometre scale. The substances or structures created at this scale are typically designed for medical…
Inspiring start of Workhier!
The Young Academics Career Programme for International PhD candidates and PostDocs in Adlershof:
On January 30, the Workhier! programme started with the first cohort of 23 young scientists, mainly from the Adlershof campus. Workhier! is designed to support international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in…
Adlershof Journal January/February 2025
Boosting STEM: Play your way to growth:
ESSAY by Matthias Gerschwitz: Tomorrow, children, joy awaits! IN CONVERSATION WITH Melissa Horchemer, who wants to inspire young people for scientific careers PORTRAIT The molecule splitter: Michelle Brown is…
In conversation with Melissa Horchemer
The WISTA project manager wants to show young people career and academic opportunities in the natural sciences:
Coming from a non-academic family living in a socially disadvantaged area of Duisburg, Melissa Horchemer was far from predestined for a career in the STEM sector. Yet, this background didn’t hold her back—it inspired…
The future of work: When machines become colleagues
Tomorrow’s world of work is being shaped at the “Zukunftsorte” locations in Berlin:
The world is changing. Innovations like chatbots, virtual realities, and smart robots have arrived in the workplace and will bring about fundamental changes in the years ahead. At Berlin Science Week in November 2024,…
Searching for young talent at Knorr-Bremse Rail Vehicle Systems
How the Marzahn-based company recruits trainees:
Workers turned, milled, and filed for months to manufacture several 1930s replacement parts for a historical S-Bahn, Berlin’s long-standing rapid transit railway. Now restored, the train then took the apprentices of…
The cognitive Iron Man suit
Zixio, a start-up located in the CHIC, develops tailor-made software and digital products in the field of cognitive systems and AI:
Joanna Czarnecka’s father was an entrepreneur and artist in Poland. He taught her that self-employment is hard work. Nevertheless, in 2019, she co-founded the company Zixio with Andreas Salzmann, developing…