News Archive

Future Mobility
DLR project “Streetlife” links data of various transportation means // HU analyses social ramifications of driver assistance systems:
Cities are growing. Motorised private transport in particular puts a strain on them. Those who switch to local public transportation, to bikes or car-sharing reduce CO2 pollution and are in many cases able to reach…

Fully connected street lights
Adlershof’s ICE-Gateway GmbH help municipalities save money:
Merely giving light does not by any means exhaust the potential of the street lamp. At least that is the opinion of the founders of ICE-Gateway GmbH from Adlershof. They want to assign lamps a major role in the smart…

Adlershof Journal International Edition 2014
Working in the World Laboratory: Multiculturalism is good for us:
ESSAY Çaglayan, my little waterfall: Can names block an international career? INSIGHT Prime location: First tenants in the "Air Campus" PEOPLE Global market pioneer: Felipe Stark provides "fault recorders" to three…

Doctor Europe
Better job opportunities for joint PhD candidates:
Since autumn 2012, doctoral candidates in geography (comparative town planning) can take part in a joint PhD programme between the Humboldt University of Berlin and Kings College London. They will research a topic for…

Adlershof Lunch Talk
With Jacqueline Leibik of "Albert Speisemanufaktur":
Jacqueline Leibik, who works with her husband Thomas to ensure that the researchers and entrepreneurs of Adlershof don't go to work on an empty stomach. The two of them run Albert Speisenmanufaktur in the Centre for…

High-tech for the world
Niche and top of the range, with the main revenue sources abroad and multicultural employees :
Some of the companies in Adlershof are firm international favourites in their industries. Their employees are multicultural, which stimulates ideas and business. The location itself has become visible in the…

Adlershof as a role model
Technology transfer from South Africa to Israel:
Two delegations per week, 1,200 mostly international visitors a year. The figures already show that Adlershof has long been radiating well beyond Berlin and Germany. Adlershof's doers are globally networked. They…

"The perfect place for us"
British company makes use of the "Welcome Package":
Thanks to the Berlin Business Welcome Package, the founders of the British company Wellation Studios have had an easy start in Adlershof. They were able to test whether they wanted to settle with their company in…

Global market pioneer
Felipe Stark provides "fault recorders" to three continents:
The washing machine was a bargain. Buy it and take it away immediately, that much Felipe Stark knew. The only question was how. Stark decided to take the tram. Together with a friend he hauled the whopper to the stop,…

Crafts for adults
This is where the tone is set:
Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage are talking about running shoes? In the corridor in Johannisthal? Ethem Bozkurt doesn't believe his ears when he goes to get a coffee from the kitchen in that Johannisthal corridor. And…

New tools for laser light
Founder form Photonic Tools at the start:
The metal workpieces which sit on the window sill in Björn Wedel's brand new office are not exhibitions pieces for his newly founded company Photonic Tools. Rather, they remind the 47-year-old of his successful past…

Çaǧlayan, my little waterfall
Can names block an international career?:
Friends of mine recently had their third child – a boy named Çaǧlayan. Nice. It means little waterfall. It has a cedilla under the C and a hachek over the G – he’ll have to spell it and explain it a little when he's…

Adlershof Dissertation Prize for Martin Hempel
The three finalists who were competing against one another on 13 February really were the academic elite. All three of them completed their dissertation in Adlershof in the past 18 months. In order to win the…

Prime location
First tenants in the "Air Campus":
Adlershof is gradually becoming more urban. One of the most recent new builds is the Air Campus office building on the corner of Rudower Chaussee and Am Studio. There is still some space for new tenants. Patrick…

Smart plugs
HARTING is working on the future of the factory:
The family enterprise HARTING recently opened a branch in Adlershof – here, developers are working on the future of the factory, Industry 4.0. It will make manufacturing more efficient, more flexible, faster and more…

“Innovation takes courage” – and consulting
Lawyer Harald Keil believes in Adlershof:
“You really had to believe in Adlershof,” lawyer Harald Keil from the law firm Bilk and Keil replies to why he settled down here in 1998. He specialised in IT and media law already as a trainee, a fairly young field…

Software for Health
Adlershof’s arivis AG develops applications for the life science sector:
The whole life sciences sector now heavily relies on effective and secure information processing. But off-the-shelf IT solutions are usually not helpful. Software specialists such as those from arivis AG are thus…

Spanish Sales Success for LUM and excellent customer loyalty program in Israel
The 15th International Sales Meeting took place at the headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof in the end of January. LUM is market leader for innovative analytical instruments for particle characterization and…

News vacuum solutions for the analytical market
Pfeiffer Vacuum set new standards with turbopumps:
Pfeiffer Vacuum, the global leader in vacuum technology, will be participating in the Pittcon trade show in Chicago from March 3 – 6, 2014 and the analytica show in Munich from April 1 – 4, 2014. “We will be…

Revealing secrets of exploding clusters
MBI scientists observe novel ionization mechanisms:
The investigation of cluster explosion dynamics under intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses has so far been limited to large scale facilities likefree-electron lasers. In a recent publication it was shown that the…