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Power from a Briefcase
Three founders from Adlershof see a great future for wireless charging:
Three founders from Adlershof see a great future for wireless charging and want to bring new versions of everyday projects to market, including a battery-charging wallet. We are next to an old socialist housing…

Panasonic supports first Smart City project in Germany
Adlershof Project „Future Living Berlin“ presented at IFA 2016:
Panasonic announced that it is playing a key role in setting up the smart residential project “Future Living Berlin” in the German capital’s Adlershof district, bringing its Smart City expertise to Germany for the…

BBC Weather Contract Awarded to MeteoGroup
Weather Company Provides Highest Quality Forecasting and State-of-the-Art Graphics Solutions:
The BBC has awarded the contract for the provision of its weather services to MeteoGroup from Spring 2017 following a regulated procurement process. MeteoGroup believes it will be a close cultural fit and natural…
Grassland or Afforestation?
Current EU policies are unlikely to jointly foster carbon sequestration and protect biodiversity:
A recently published paper by a researchers group highlights important conflicts between existing European policies to mitigate climate change by increasing carbon sequestration on the one hand, and grassland…
Adlershof Top News? In English Please!
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Our bi-monthly Adlershof Journal is now also available in English. Some readers were asking about a newsletter version of the English edition of Adlershof Journal. Well, here we go! Starting with the next edition of…

AdMaCom Kick-Off: Advanced Material Startups meet in Berlin
As their first big internationally visible activity, the Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM) will hold the Advanced Materials Competition (AdMaCom), which is a six-week workshop from August 28th to…

Time-resolving the Motion of Electrons in Atoms, Molecules and Solids on their Natural Timescale
Attosecond Science opens new Avenues in Femtochemistry:
Attosecond Science is a new exciting frontier in contemporary physics, aimed at time-resolving the motion of electrons in atoms, molecules and solids on their natural timescale. Electronic dynamics derives from the…

ISAS design wins a Red Dot Award
Corporate Design of the Research Institute awarded:
We have known it for a long time, but now we have it "in red and white", so to speak: Our ISAS Corporate Design is really special. That is why it has now won the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2016. We owe…
New Guest Relations Manager in Adlershof
Matthias Brandt is the contact person in the International Guest Houses:
Since 01.08.2016, Matthias Brandt is the new Guest Relations Manager at the IGAFA Science Office. He studied Molecular Biomedicine at the University of Bonn and worked as a research fellow at the Institute for…

Lithium-ion batteries with more power
Capacity might be increased by six times:
The capacity of lithium-ion batteries might be increased by six times by using anodes made of silicon instead of graphite. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) Institute of Soft Matter and Functional…
The next generation of medical devices
SCIENION and Applied Microarrays announce a strategic partnership:
SCIENION AG, a solution provider for precise liquid dispensing applications, and Applied Microarrays, Inc. the recognized leader in manufacturing services for multiplexed testing, today announced a strategic…

French and German Pfeiffer Vacuum employees participate successfully in the Corporate Games
16 medals and 5th place in the overall ranking for the French-German team :
The 4th international “Corporate Games” sporting competition took place in Annecy, France, over the first weekend in July. Any company can register its sports teams for the competitions. The Pfeiffer Vacuum team …

"DemoDay" presents results of Adlershofer Energy Accelerator A2
We are happy to present to you the results of 100 days of hard work with nine excellent startups and three very committed industrial partners. To us, it was a particular success for our programme to be met with such a…

Adlershof Journal July/August 2016
After work: let’s get out of the daily routine!:
Sheep in the City of Science: A place for dreaming // Unjamming heavy metal: How researchers of the German Aerospace Center – DLR are smoothing the traffic flow // Taking a break from the digital bombardment:…

The Art of Flânerie
Essay by Prof. Dr. Holger Rust, Economic Sociologist, Pragmatist and publicist, known as a critic of management methods:
Once an intelligent algorithm will have identified the representative iconography of our time by means of randomly recorded photos of the public scene, the result will be the following: lowered head, focused gaze,…

Struck a chord with the Adlershof Company Run
In conversation with organiser Annika Huber-Lieske:
She is the organiser behind the Adlershof Company Run (Adlershofer Firmenstaffel). Annika Huber-Lieske was responsible for the concept of the running event, which she developed with GSBB Gesundheitssport Berlin…

The inventor
The life of Joachim Feierabend is all about electrical engineering:
“I founded the first private company here on this site.” He did so on the day of the German monetary union. On 1st July 1990, Joachim Feierabend quit his job at the Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy to…

Sheep in the City of Science
A place for dreaming:
It’s Saturday in Adlershof. Even a place like this, where 20,000 people work from Monday to Friday, comes to a halt on the weekend. Dilek Güngür went off exploring the area for Adlershof Journal. One can almost smell…

There is life after work
How people from Adlershof spend their time after work:
What do the people of Adlershof do after work? Do they keep working or start relaxing? Can they sit back and unwind? Or is their job firmly stuck in their heads? What does their perfect weekend look like? We asked…

Unjamming heavy metal
How researchers of the German Aerospace Center – DLR are smoothing the traffic flow:
Wacken is a small town in Schleswig Holstein with less than 2,000 inhabitants about 12 kilometres from Itzehoe. The town’s website advertises its undisturbed pastoral surroundings. This is absolutely true on 360 days…