In step with the times
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing also helps with making innovation ready for the market:
The brick building at the address Unter den Eichen 87 radiates history. Set in massive stone in Berlin-Lichterfelde, it demonstrates its status as a renowned government institution. “Federal Institute for Materials…
Precision made in Berlin
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany’s national metrology institute, is considered the cradle of quantum physics and tests the limits of what can be measured. The PTB’s Institut Berlin, or IB, is based in a thriving neighbourhood in Charlottenburg.:
Whenever something requires high precision, the PTB comes into play. As the national metrology institute, it is also the highest authority in Germany for all issues related to correct and reliable measurements.…
Adlershof Journal July/August 2024
Science, community and smart living: News from the neighbourhood:
In conversation with Oliver Igel, district mayor of Treptow-Köpenick // »There is quite a bit of hugging«: Inclusion for 45 years at Berlin-Chemie // Building bridges: Crossing Adergestell on foot or by bike …
Building bridges
Crossing Adergestell on foot or by bike:
27 January 2024. Adlershof is fast asleep when, a few minutes before 4 am, a giant crane lifts a delicate structure up from Adlergestell, the main street cutting through Adlershof. The structure hanging from the hook…
Best of “Adlershof Journal”: How Adlershof tackles Grand Challenges
The world is facing major challenges: mobility, the energy transition, digitalisation and global health are just some of the issues for which innovative solutions are needed. We also want to leave a planet worth…
The rainmakers – Flourishing balconies for a greener city
A start-up team in Adlershof is developing a smart watering system for balconies:
With great precision, the start-up Plances—funded by the Adlershof Founder’s Lab (AFL)—will deliver valuable moisture to the balconies of renters across the city. Their mission: Greener, more liveable cities in which…
Adlershof Journal May/June 2024
A seedbed of creative minds – What makes the work environments in Adlershof unique?:
Agile furnishing: System 180 provides people with flexible spatial design // The rainmakers: Flourishing balconies for a greener city // A stroke of luck: The meteorite from the Havelland
An ecosystem for talent
The "ST3AM" at the Adlershof campus is a place where people can work in a more flexible, creative and interdisciplinary way:
At the university campus in Adlershof, a new hub called ST3AM is taking shape where people can work on ideas that will truly drive humanity forward in a more agile, creative, and interdisciplinary way than other…
A place for talent
ST3AM in Adlershof seeks to reconcile seemingly contradictory worlds of work. Occupational psychologists are helping it succeed with a research project.:
“From research in occupational psychology, we know that the workplace and a space’s environmental factors like lighting, acoustics, and colours play an important role in determining how well, how creative, and how…
“Things will evolve”
Michael Jakobs is planning the “GREEN HUB” coworking space in Lübbenau:
Whenever something new is being built in Lübbenau, Michael Jakobs has a hand in it. He has been working for the WIS Wohnungsbaugesellschaft, a housing association in the Spree Forest, for more than 25 years, for a…
A place for working—and more
FUHUB is the newest addition to the WISTA Innovation Campus FUBIC and to Berlin’s growing, innovative Southwest. One of the first tenants is SimpliOffice, a young company operating co-working spaces and event venues. :
Cycle to the office. Take a shower before hitting the desk. Grab a quick coffee before the meeting. Go to a sports course later, take a power nap, or a play a round of foosball with the guys from the next-door office.…
Berlin Adlershof: High technology, skilled employees and openness as key success factors
Germany's largest science and technology park remains an important pillar of Berlin's economy :
The Berlin Adlershof Science and Technology Park continued its positive development in 2023. Revenues and budget funds grew by a solid 7.1% to € 3.9 billion (2022: € 3.6 billion). The number of employees remained…
KURO – A new start-up is breathing life into the construction industry
At the Adlershof Founder’s Lab, the team is developing software designed to make calculations much easier:
A start-up based at Adlershof Technology Park is working to bring about a revolution in the construction industry. Utilising artificial intelligence, the audacious founders are looking to fundamentally change the way…
AI for trade and transport of commodities
The software company Calypso Commodities develops optimisation solutions for logistics:
The world is changing. Bit by bit, fossil fuels are being replaced. But this will not happen overnight. Until renewable hydrogen creates a green commodities industry and innovative storage concepts make sun and wind…
Lasers on the field
Escarda Technologies GmbH is developing an herbicide-free alternative for weed control at CleanTech Marzahn:
Weed control using herbicides has many disadvantages: It costs worldwide agriculture a good 15 billion euros every year. This trend is increasing sharply, threatening biodiversity, and contaminating foodstuffs and…
The alphabet of the universe
Manuel Dedio has developed an “app for non-enthusiastic mathematicians”:
Although most remember him as a philosopher, Plato was one of the most important promoters of mathematics in ancient Greece. Galileo Galilei, another famous philosopher and scientist, once waxed lyrically about…
Blossoming landscapes in IT
Is the digital transformation stalling in Germany? Not in Adlershof it isn’t.:
The campus is well-positioned, and its companies and research facilities are setting standards. Nonetheless, they have not been immune to the shortage of skilled workers. The corridors of GFal Society for the…
Adlershof Journal March/April 2024
This is the future: Quantum computing, machine learning and cybersecurity:
In conversation with Johannes Klick, who puts hackers out of business // KURO – A new start-up is breathing life into the construction industry // Valuable breaks: Adlershof’s green canteen …
Adlershof Journal January/February 2024
Talent meets technology: How we ensure we make progress together:
Building blocks for further training: The new WISTA Academy launched // Nephrolyx: Highly precise and rapid detection of kidney diseases // Television up close: Studio tours provide insight …
Building blocks for further training
The new WISTA Academy strives to facilitate access to talent and employee retention for companies:
To WISTA, commercial location development is more than plotting land, managing buildings and attracting businesses. It’s also about creating spaces for people to live and work—and to inspire them. After all, success…