Adlershof Journal March/April 2025
A changing tech oasis: This is how Adlershof stays on course for the future:
ESSAY by Ebba Lund: A promising future for innovation spaces worldwide IN CONVERSATION WITH Daniel Rosón Eichelmann, who wants to network stakeholders in a more targeted way PROFILE The IT developer: Georg Wrobel…
Travelling through time
You always meet twice in life. This also rings true for my relationship with Adlershof. When I started working at the Technology Park in the 2000s, my head unearthed an old memory: Just before the Berlin Wall fell, I had a school holiday job at the costume inventory of the East German television broadcasting company, which is still based at Adlershof today. After Saturday evening TV shows, mountains of costumes would return from the cleaners, and we sorted them into the never-ending shelves in the basement. I spent hours dusting off historical hats while set designers and props managers searched for the perfect pieces for upcoming film projects. Every morning, someone picked me up from the front gatehouse. On both sides of Rudower Chaussee—a gated community. No entry allowed.
After the Berlin Wall fell, the scene changed dramatically. The fences disappeared. The technology park developed rapidly: buildings with vast foyers sprang up, new research institutes settled in, and the streets became livelier as students from Berlin’s Humboldt-Universität moved to Adlershof. At some point, people said the campus had reached the so-called critical mass—a sufficient number, and a functional mix, of businesses, university and non-university research institutions, capable of growing independently and withstanding crises.
Countless economic crises and workplace transformations later, we know that even a concept like Adlershof needs support in the future. Support from people. Support that comes from tailored infrastructures and work environments. How can we continue telling this success story? This is the story behind the spring edition of Adlershof Journal.
Sincerely,
Peggy Mory
Editor-in-chief
Articles
A promising future for innovation spaces worldwide
Essay by Ebba Lund, Chief Executive Officer of IASP:
The International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) is a mission-driven non-profit dedicated to supporting our global community of Science and Technology Parks (STPs), Innovation Districts…
In conversation with Daniel Rosón Eichelmann
Network manager in the technology centres at WISTA Management GmbH:
Daniel Rosón Eichelmann believes that the right spaces are vital for people to connect and create new things together. He is passionate about well-designed public spaces and unconventional work environments that…
The IT developer
Georg Wrobel supports digital projects in small and medium-sized companies:
“Rooted in Adlershof” is how Gregor Wrobel describes the institute where he has spent almost his entire career—and the same could be said of him. Wrobel was in his mid-twenties and had just completed his mathematics…
Magnets for smart minds
Why tech hubs will continue to be important drivers of growth:
Are technology parks becoming obsolete in an era of hybrid work? Not at all. Head to Adlershof to experience how tech hubs bring together smart minds to create thriving companies. Soon, JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH…
Cleaner coatings for ships
Clean Ocean Coatings is developing an environmentally friendly alternative:
“Water is life, and that life will inevitably show itself,” says Christina Linke. Any object that ends up in the ocean will soon be colonised. First, a biofilm forms, followed by algae, and eventually barnacles. “In…
No two days are the same
They are three out of 34,000: What it means to work in Germany’s largest technology park:
Monday, 7.30 amStephan Möllers has been up for two hours. Setting off from Panketal, he’s now on the S8 train on his way to Adlershof. At Storkower Straße station, Alina Schmalz gets on the train, too. A few moments…
Stünzi’s sense of snow
HU scientist Simone Maria Stünzi studies the vegetation in permafrost soils:
At the Earth Observation Lab of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), scientist Simone Maria Stünzi investigates how vegetation interacts with permafrost soil and how these processes are changing against the backdrop…
A morning at ST3AM
Vox pops from the new world of work:
Every person needs a “third place”, wrote the American sociologist Ray Oldenburg in 1989. Unlike a person’s home or place of work, The Great Good Place, as he called it, functions somewhat like the café in the sitcom…
skills4chips—The talent factory for a future industry
The Microtec Academy will be expanded to form a national educational academy for microelectronics and microsystems technology:
Microelectronics has long been an essential part of our lives. Countless small and large everyday devices have a beating heart made of silicon and other semiconductors. And while Germany plays a leading role in…
Counting with butterflies
Stefanie Lieschke runs the BIP Creativity Daycare Centre on the campus:
How can you tell if a child is gifted, and more importantly, in which area? In the 1970s, Hans-Georg Mehlhorn developed a novel teaching method based on talent, intelligence, and personality—the German words resulting…
News in short
Special hotel rates for our customers in 2025
Like in previous years, WISTA offers exclusive special hotel rates for the customers of companies based in Adlershof Technology Park. Use the link adlershof.de/en/event-services-guided-tours-hotels to access a list of participating hotels and apartments in the immediate vicinity as well as the wider area in Berlin’s Southwest.
For booking codes, please send us an email request to pr(at)wista.de.
For early birds: Photonics Days 2025 in Adlershof
With 21 sessions, an expected 400 participants, over 100 international speakers, and 30 exhibitors from Berlin, Brandenburg, and the rest of Germany, as well as partners from Poland, the Netherlands, and Spain, the Photonics Days 2025 will take place on 8 and 9 October at the WISTA conference centre. This year’s topics will include the Berlin Laser Tech Symposium, optical design and optical simulation, semiconductors and heterogeneous integration, BQQT-Berlin Quantum Quantum Technology, ophthalmology, metrology on nano-optics, novel applications of modern light-based technologies, and photonics for safety and security.
Members of Optec-Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. (OpTecBB), the competence network for optical technologies and microsystems technology, will open their doors and their laboratories as part of Photonics Week on 7 October. On 10 October, guests can visit an end user of photonics and microelectronics.
Register here:
photonic-days-berlin.com
Dissertation Award Adlershof
Three nominees. Three lectures. The person with the most concise presentation of their topic wins this round of the Adlershof Dissertation Award and the prize money of 3,000 euros. On Thursday, 20 March 2025, starting at 3 pm, three young researchers will present the topic of their dissertation at Erwin Schrödinger Centre, Rudower Chaussee 26.
Since 2002, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, WISTA Management GmbH, and IGAFA Joint Initiative of Non-University Affiliated Research Institutes in Adlershof e. V. have been giving out the annual Adlershof Dissertation Award, which honours outstanding scientific achievements by young researchers in dissertations completed in Adlershof.
Science slam “Battle den Horst”
Calling all curious minds. It’s that time again. On 3 April 2025 at 6.30 pm, this year’s first Adlershof-based science slam will take place at Bunsen Hall on Volmerstraße. Expect an evening full of fascinating presentations by young researchers, who will present their research topics in a way that is both educating as well as entertaining. Your applause decides whose presentation wins the evening.
Tickets are only 10 euros and available here: www.adlershof.de/ticketservice
Diversity Conference Adlershof
Under the motto "Sharing Differences!", this year's Diversity Conference Adlershof will take place on 7 May 2025, from 9 am to 9 pm at WISTA Conventions (Volmerstraße 2). It offers inspiring keynotes as well as interactive master classes that offer a more in-depth perspective. This year’s thematic focus areas include neurodiversity, body language, sign language, and international leadership. Participants of the master classes and workshops receive a certificate upon completion. After the conference, attendees can round off the evening on the terrace with conversations, music, and drinks.
Health Network Adlershof now has online offering
Ranging from coaching sessions on stress management to workshops for a healthy back, the free-of-charge offerings of the Health Network Adlershof are available to all staff at the Technology Park’s companies as well as non-university and university research institutes, and other Zukunftsorte, which are places in Berlin that generate future innovation. They can now be conveniently accessed through a new online portal. The Health Network Adlershof is a service by WISTA Management GmbH and the health insurance provider Techniker Krankenkasse. For several years now, the network has been improving and evaluating the health of employees in Adlershof and other Zukunftsorte in Berlin.
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