Register now for the 5. JobMarket of Campus Club Adlershof and workhier! on 26 June 2025 at ST3AM
Early career researchers and companies find their perfect match! Registration deadline: 2 June 2025:
Network with the innovators of tomorrow! The JobMarket Event 2025 brings researchers and companies together to shape the future. International doctoral candidates and postdocs from the natural sciences meet companies…
Diversity wins
Berlin is recognised as an outstanding international technology hub. How to maintain this reputation, openness and diversity?:
Berlin is recognised as an outstanding international technology hub, particularly Adlershof. But that reputation is at risk if the political and social climate continues to move away from openness and diversity. After…
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…
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…
New energy, new connections
Introducing an innovative world of work, ST3AM is now opening on the Adlershof campus:
Wealthy regions offer talent, technology—research, development, and academia—, tolerance—communities that practice openness and diversity—, and land available for development. This is complemented by other ecological…
From the lecture hall to the executive chair
Munay Zamorano took over the cosmetics company New Natural in her early 20s:
Based at the CHIC Charlottenburg Innovation Centre, New Natural sells over 1,000 certified products from ten natural cosmetics brands to perfumeries, drugstores, and online stores in more than 30 countries. Their…
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…
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, managing company of the Adlershof Technology Park, has initiated a local campaign for more tolerance and…
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…
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…
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…
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…