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Adlershof: a mecca for events
Adlershof con.vent. offers unusual, inspiring and well organised locations:
Anyone looking for unusual, inspiring and well organised locations with a special extra something for an event will soon find what they are looking for at the Adlershof Science and Technology Park. Regardless of the…
Destination Adlershof: a city within the city
Scientists, Berliner journalist Paulina Czienskowski recently wrote in the Adlershof Journal, are those curious individuals who spend all their days alone in labs: nerds, lone wolves, oddballs and outsiders. Just how…
Daily creations from the region
Albert Speisemanufaktur offers an authentic, varied cuisine:
“The refectory has just become extinct.” Words to this effect could very well pass through your mind when you stand in front of the Albert-Speisemanufaktur. Next to the Albert café and bistro at Albert-Einstein-Straße…
Cinematic events
In the former airplane hangar in the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Straße a very special event location is being built:
The name is Long Arm. Milo Long Arm. The long arm of the camera robot is not primarily designed for serving sparkling wine, it is true. „But“, Stephan Horst of Visavis film production assures us that „he would most…
Berlin Adlershof: Leading in Optics and Photonics
Germany’s largest Science and Technology Park will present itself at the world’s largest photonics industry trade show Photonics West 2016:
The Science and Technology Berlin Adlershof ranks among the leading locations for research and development of light-based technologies worldwide. Its competencies range from basic research to high-tech companies. Its…
Data highway in space with lasers from the FBH
Launch of the European data relay system EDRS-A:
The launch of the European data relay system on January 29, 2016 is a further milestone to establish an optical data highway in space. This first laser node for a future optical network, located in 36,000 kilometers…
Europe’s first commercial battery plant remains a driver for innovation
Younicos expands stationary battery storage system to restore grid after blackout:
For the first time in Germany, a stationary battery storage system will be capable of restoring a regional electricity distribution grid in case of a major disruption of the electrical supply network. As part of the…
Metal Oxide Sandwiches
BESSY II: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces :
A Franco-German cooperation has investigated a sandwich system of transition metal oxides at BESSY II. The scientists discovered a new option to control properties of the interface between the two layers, for…
Integrating refugees in Berlin
II. International Evening of the Technology Park Adlershof / 120 participants:
About 120 participants got together for the II. International Evening of the Technology Park Adlershof on 20th January 2016 - more than twice as many as for the first meeting in December 2015. Among them were 50…
Setting the basis for further sustainable growth
LUM awards Japanese and Spanish distributors:
The headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof hosted the LUM distributors from 21 countries as well as the international LUM sales force, traditionally in the end of January. During this annual technical and…
Invisible light flash ignites nano-fireworks
Findings of MBI scientists open unprecedented opportunities for both fundamental laser-matter research and applications:
A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin and the University of Rostock demonstrated a new way to turn initially transparent nanoparticles suddenly into strong absorbers for intense laser light…
Younicos is among 2015’s Top Global Cleantech companies
Energy storage pioneer again recognized as innovation leader:
Younicos is among the 100 most innovative companies for green technologies around the globe. The energy storage pioneer was chosen by the prestigious Cleantech Group from almost 7,000 nominated companies as “best…
Adlershof Journal January/February 2016
Virtuosic Interplay: Our Talents for new Technologies:
Search, find, foster: Seeking talent at the Technology Park Adlershof // In Good Form: PensatechPharma develops new forms of pharmaceuticals // Top-level athletics and university: Students from Adlershof en route to…
Scientists – the secret stars
Why researchers are not as hyped as musicians or athletes:
Essay by Paulina Czienskowski, freelance journalist who writes for Welt am Sonntag, stern, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, and Berliner Morgenpost Let’s start with a quiz: who is Takaaki Kajita? Aziz…
Physicist with her own research group on solar fuels
In conversation with Kathrin Aziz-Lange:
She originally wanted to become a documentary film maker. It was Kathrin Maria Aziz-Lange’s childhood dream. However, she then studied physics and got a PhD. Because it opens up infinite possibilities, she says. Now…
Global traveller
Magdalena Böck sells high-end technology on four continents:
At first she didn’t want to stay longer than six months. Meanwhile she’s been “in this great city” for six years. From Austria to Berlin: “I’m your classic economic refugee,” says Magdalena Böck. Did she flee from…
Search, find, foster
Seeking talent at the Technology Park Adlershof:
Finding, fostering, and maintaining talent is a pivotal challenge of our knowledge-based society. Science and business must cooperate to not let good ideas go to waste in laboratories. Adlershof offers ways to study…
Excited by Yawning
“Jugend forscht“ – the science and technology competition shows the curiosity and passion of young people for science:
They research the emotional connectedness of yawning and feelings triggered by robots – students and other young people research their own questions with curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm. The Science City…
A clear view of the future work place
How to maintain highly skilled professionals:
enspira Connect GmbH supports companies in tapping into the unused potential of employees and executives and in improving their strategic positioning. “From Adlershof, for Adlershof” is the motto of its founder Hubert…
Passions and Proportions
Christian Schmidt is a violin maker, musician, and painter:
A virgin’s urine for the varnish, wood from trees cut on new moon – there are many myths surrounding the Lombardic violin maker families Amati, Stradivari or Guaneri. All over the world these musical names make the…