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Two visiting scholars tell us about their Adlershof experience:

"I feel at home in Berlin. It is a great city,” says Xiaofang Qi. Her surname “Qi” is pronounced “Chi”. The physicist laughs and says: “As in chicken.” She is 27 years old and from Luoyang, a huge industrial town in…

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The balancing act between the upper and the lower limit:

If high-tech companies and research institutes from Adlershof need precision components, they go straight to the precision technician next door.There is a persistent hum. Uwe Steingross, head Uwe Steingross…

Poetry in Colour

The paintings of Korean artist Yongtak Choi are mood boosters. :

Since ancient times, scholars and philosophers have been arguing about the concept of poetry and whether painting or poetry is the true way of creating images. According to some, the two art forms are two sides of the…

The wheelchair-friendly university

People with disabilities at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin:

The wheelschair-friendly universityPeople with disabilities at the Humboldt-Universität in BerlinAlthough it is commonplace for people with disabilities to go to university, it is still fraught with obstacles.…

This is our part in saving the planet. And fighting poverty.

The Adlershof start-up Boreal Light will bring electricity and water to the poorest regions in the world.:

To bring electricity and clean drinking water to rural regions of the Middle East – this is the mission of Hamed Beheshti and his company Boreal Light, founded in 2013. For that, he relies on the power of sun, wind,…

Smart cities: Living space for future dreams

How will we be living and working in future?:

The visions and ideas for the antroposphere of the future are as many and diverse as never before. Called all over the world “smart cities”, these intelligent developments embody huge potential for innovation and…

A sustainable energy concept for Adlershof

Beate Mekiffer and her team develop strategies and projects for an energy-efficient Adlershof:

Since 2010, when she took on this issue at the operating company of the Adlershof technology park, the WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH, the energy strategy for the site has taken concrete form. The situation requires a holistic…

The energy planner

Together an energy concept is being developed at the site, which focuses on saving:

Researchers at Adlershof study infrastructure provision to an entire technology, science and residential district. It’s the first time a study of this size has been conducted in Germany. Adlershof is growing. More and…

Accelerating innovation

The Adlershofer Accelerator A2 inspect new energie ideas:

Longstanding major corporations and start-ups generally speak different languages. The company culture is just as varied as the speed at which the two move both internally and in the marketplace. However, the ideas of…

District heating with sun power

„Wohnen am Campus“ energy efficient housing in Adlershof:

An innovative low-temperature grid provides the residents of „Wohnen am Campus“in Adlershof with environmentally friendly, low-cost heat. The trick is that the grid draws surplus heat from individual solar…

Smart windows

New ideas in glass:

Large windows in modern architecture offer more than aesthetics; they also capture light and heat, and thereby save energy. Large panes of glass carry disadvantages along with all their advantages. They limit the…

The power transmission path as a biotope

Make flora and fauna ecologically and economically sensible in power lines:

The energy revolution is heightening the problem of energy transport. As the grid expands accordingly, public interest is growing with respect to the presence of power transmission paths and their impact on their…

Large railway station for automation

HERMOS Group combine data points for regulators, switches and sensors from various manufacturers:

People rushing to catch a train at Berlin Central Station have little time to admire the building technology of this major hub where more than one thousand local, regional and long-distance trains interconnect. The…

A Smarter Kind of Lamp

Street lamps of the future become power-saving multifunctional network nodes:

Electrical lighting first came to the capital city in 1882, but it took nearly 50 years before the street lamps were fully electrified in the 1930s. Today, more than 220,000 street lamps light up Berlin at night. The…

Turbopumps and diaphragm pumps utilized in laboratory technology, analytics and biotechnology

Lightweight for mobile applications / High compression for light gases / Reduces energy consumption by up to 90 percent:

Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading global supplier of vacuum technology, will be introducing new turbopumps and new diaphragm pumps at the analytica show in Munich from May 10 to May 13. HiPace 30: Smallest, high…

5th. International Evening in Adlershof الأمسية الدولية

On the 20th of April 2016, WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH had greeted refugees and supporters from companies and institutions in the Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof. This event was the 5th  International Evening…

Bessel Prize for Prof. Dr. Gabriele Travaglini

45.000 EUR for research at the institute of physics and IRIS Adlershof:

  Prof. Dr. Gabriele Travaglini from Queen Mary University London receives the Friedrich-Wilhelm Bessel Prize from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. The prize will enable him to spend one year of research at the…

Work smarter - LUM and the New Generation of High Pressure Homogenizers

LUM GmbH starts exclusive distribution of PSI-homogenizers in several countries:

With immediate effect LUM GmbH, Berlin, Germany, starts the exclusive distribution of PSI instruments in Germany, Austria, France and China. The distributorship agreement between the manufacturer Particle Solutions…

Adlershof start-up UVphotonics awarded with Leibniz-Gründerpreis 2016

UV photonics will bring innovative UV-LED technology to market:

FBH's start-up company UVphotonics NT GmbH has been awarded with the Leibniz-Gründerpreis (Founder Award) 2016. The prize is endowed with 50,000 Euro and is intended to help promising start-up companies with their…

Measuring chemistry

Local fingerprint of hydrogen bonding captured in experiments:

A team from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has been able for the first time to measure how new bonds influence molecules: they have reconstructed the “energy landscape” of acetone molecules using measurement data from the…