System 180 provides people with flexible spatial design:
The pandemic has triggered a surge in flexibility in the professional world. The demands to spaces and furniture are changing. When hybrid work and agile methods bring together diverse teams, it is essential to have…
“As long as the film stays in its own logic, I can accept other theories”, says Çiğdem İşsever from HU Berlin:
Caution is required whenever physics appears in films, says Çiğdem İşsever. She dedicates herself to the fundamentals of particle physics at Humboldt Universität’s Lise Meitner House in Adlershof. Entertainment…
At the Adlershof-based Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), Christine Kühnel is working towards a future in which energy is 100 percent renewable:
The German government just recently cut funding for the Climate and Transformation Fund. This affects Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), among many others. “The consequences are dramatic,” says Christine Kühnel, who has…
Essay by Katja Ninnemann, Professor of Digitalization and Workspace Management at HTW Berlin:
Faced with current challenges like disruptive technology developments, the increasing shortage of skilled workers, and the after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic, many people are posing questions about the future…
The Student Village Adlershof opened ten years ago:
Wood-clad façades with an accordion look, colourful blinds, and floor-to-ceiling windows: Construction on the Student Village Adlershof was completed ten years ago. Since then, 400 students from all over the world…
The user coordination officer at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin works as a volunteer swimming coach:
Around 31 million Germans give back to society through volunteer work. Helmholtz employee and swimming coach Daniela Theile is one of them. She waxes lyrically: “How many people have the key to a public swimming…
Planetary researcher Jörn Helbert examined the very rare object in the DLR laboratory:
Sunday, 21 January 2024. It’s about half past two. The night over Brandenburg is clear when, suddenly, a fiery streak illuminates the sky. A chunk of a rock from space, half a metre long and weighing about 140 kilos,…
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…
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…
Rico Regner runs the green canteen in Adlershof:
If Rico Regner hadn't listened to his mother's advice, things might have turned out very differently. “Why don't you find out what you actually want to do first,” she said. And so, the then-18-year-old from Berlin…
HU psychologist Jennifer Haase investigates the creativity of humans and AI systems:
Hereditary genius and sensitive nerves—or is this just a training effect? For more than 15 years, Jennifer Haase’s mind has been occupied with the question of what creativity is and how it can be fostered. She is…
How simulations and machine learning are helping BAM to do so:
Using simulation and machine learning, Janine George is on the hunt for more efficient materials to advance the transition to clean energy, or Energiewende. Apart from saving her a lot of time, it helps her find new…
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…
Blueprints of integrated circuits are being developed in Adlershof:
It should be common knowledge by now that microchips are at the heart of every computer, tablet, or smartphone. They execute the commands that our apps and operating systems give them. But there are still many more…
The managing director of Alpha Strike Labs puts hackers out of business:
Last year, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Berlin’s Museum of Natural History were hit by hacker attacks, and memories of a security breach at the Berlin School of Technology are still quite fresh. “The threat level in…
Manouchehr Shamsrizi deals with the social impact of technology:
He is not easy to pin down. Not to one field of expertise. Not to one place. Manouchehr Shamsrizi lives with his wife and young daughter in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel, where he was born into a Persian immigrant family in…
NOVENTI Care develops software to meet the complex requirements of the healthcare industry:
“Digitalisation in care has nothing to do with robots,” says Julius Knoche with a laugh. Whenever the topic comes up, people seem to think of talking automatons with arms and legs to support people with special needs,…
Essay by Christoph Holz, a self-confessed nerd, a writer, and a keynote speaker:
“Did you really think I was going to be normal?” said Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X and co-founder of several companies, when he made his appearance on Saturday Night Live. Why is it that IT nerds…
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…
As vice-rector at the bbw University of Applied Sciences, she is responsible for making teaching future-proof:
“This is exactly where we belong,” is what the management of bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences exclaimed when it moved the Adlershof Technology Park in April 2023. Since then, the roughly 1,200 students…