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…
A new protective shield against viruses
A team at Freie Universität Berlin (FU) led by Professor Daniel Lauster is working on a nasal spray that wards off flu viruses:
The new FU research centre SupraFAB, short for Supramolecular Functional Architectures at Biological Interfaces, on Altensteinstrasse in Berlin Dahlem, has more to offer than its impressive architecture. On the…
Creative countermeasures
How the Marzahn-based family business LKM is tackling the search for skilled workers:
“Retirement looms,” says Kai Hessel. Almost one third of the workforce of LKM, a Berlin Marzahn-based family business, will enter retirement sooner or later and take its experience and knowledge with them. “It’s quite…
AI for additive manufacturing processes
1000 Kelvin GmbH from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre is on a growth course with its software for selective laser sintering processes:
The company 1000 Kelvin GmbH from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is on a growth course. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) in additive manufacturing to optimise the quality of metal components and to…
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Materially enabling the circular economy
At TechConnect Adlershof, scientific institutions, innovators, and companies discussed how new materials enable a circular economy:
When someone like Patrick Teuffel matter-of-factly uses the words “ongoing progress” to describe the workings of his industry - instead of the ubiquitous “ongoing process” – it says very clearly something about how…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2023
Everything but blah blah blah: how the campus communicates:
The traffic manager: Katharina Marienhagen looks after Berlin's traffic lights // MO-SPACE: Communicating securely with quanta // Happy Birthday BESSY II: 25 years of high-brilliance radiation source …
Precision in Marzahn
Carlotta Baumann runs Finetech – a specialist in high-precision placement and assembly systems:
“Hello, Carlotta here,” is what the author of this article first hears from the phone. A little excited maybe, but full of energy and presence. It is seldom that one starts talking with a CEO in this way. Normally,…
Eyes don’t lie
The start-up Amphiprion develops software for biometric identification:
Moving to the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is like a journey back in time for the team of the newly founded start-up Amphiprion. Almost ten years ago, they had already been here to help a newly found…
Everything is easier together
The start-up YouCan! supports children, teenagers, and young adults with cancer:
They tend to lie in hospital beds, pull the blankets over their heads, and retreat. Being diagnosed with cancer is a severe blow and a life-changing event, especially for young people. Using an app, the Berlin-based…
In conversation with Rawad Chammas
The mechanical engineer takes care of knowledge transfer at WISTA Management GmbH:
When he studied mechanical engineering at Technische Universität Berlin, Rawad Chammas had already discovered his passion for the processes and transfer of knowledge during the various phases of technology…
Digital twins
A new platform pools data from eleven different sites in Berlin generating future innovation:
Berlin’s Zukunftsorte, German for ‘places of the future’, are pivotal sites generating future innovation in technology across the German capital. They are made up of 2,200 companies and 42 scientific institutions,…