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“Dual leadership for the purpose of knowledge transfer”

Generation change at the Steglitz-Zehlendorf economic development agency:

In the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district, the economic development agency is facing a leadership transition. Its director, Michael Pawlik, is retiring after nearly 45 years of service. Till-Steffen Busse will follow in his…

Substitution, not cancellation

The start-up LehrCraft wants to use its placement platform to help alleviate staff shortages in schools and reduce class cancellations:

“What do teachers and clouds have in common? The day improves when they go away.” Everybody knows these types of jokes. But what if teachers really go away and regular classes cannot be guaranteed? The reasons for the…

The raise of Remote Work – is the importance of STPs & AOIs overestimated today?

WISTA Managing Director Roland Sillmann at the annual conference of the IASP - International Association of Science Parks in Nairobi :

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY From running one of Europe's leading STPs, we know that physical proximity fosters entrepreneurship and innovation and transfers scientific knowledge into products that help tackle the grand…

Future of work: Life-long-learning, values and purpose

WISTA Head of Human Resources Bessie Fischer-Bohn spoke at the IASP conference in Nairobi on the challenges of the “New World of Work”:

Executive Summary The future of work is undergoing significant changes, marked by global challenges and transformative megatrends. We define three main challenges: shifting values, demographic transformation, rapid…

Adlershof Journal September/October 2024

Follow the science: Why science and society should make an impact together:

The science manager at IKZ: Janet Zapke organises operations at the IKZ // Role model for a clean future: HZB wants to conduct greenhouse gas neutral research // Food safety: SAFIA ist tracking down mould …

The liberators of manufacturing

The EchoRing system from R3 Solutions enables wireless, highly reliable and extremely fast data transmission:

The Götterflug rollercoaster at Belantis, an amusement park in Leipzig, is THE attraction. This thrill ride is controlled, monitored, and secured by R3 solutions, a company based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and its…

The future of agriculture is being grown in a cupboard

Lite&Fog aim at making plant cultivation more sustainable and efficient. Their method allows for the on-demand production of foodstuffs, as well as active ingredients for medicine and cosmetics:

Seen from afar, it looks like a green column behind glass. Moving closer, it turns out to be lettuce plants that grow in all directions along the entire length of a thick, round textile tube. Rather than reaching for…

Racing towards new drugs thanks to cell-free protein synthesis

Based in Berlin-Dahlem, the science-oriented start-up PharmaTech is unleashing new opportunities for personalised medicine:

Without proteins, life would be impossible. The macromolecules are made up of amino acids and are a key component of every living cell. Our muscles, heart, brain, skin, and hair consist predominantly of proteins.…

Adlershof Technology Park is committed to openness and tolerance

Start of major online and offline campaign with banners and posters:

35,000 people, 35,000 stories. One goal: Crafting future from diverse perspectives. WISTA Management GmbH (WISTA), managing company of the Adlershof Technology Park, has initiated a local campaign for more tolerance…

Good clean fun times two

DLR is working at two new institutes in Cottbus to help make industry and flying more sustainable :

Lowering CO₂ emissions is a pressing problem of our time. In Cottbus, people are working on solutions for it. Supported by funding for structural economic change, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) founded two…

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…