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The magic of the place
Editorial by Stefan Mannes, Managing director kakoii Berlin/Tokyo:
Just for a moment, forget the names Google, Apple, and eBay. Imagine to yourself you’re standing in the heart of Silicon Valley: What do you see? Factory halls and offices – as far as the eye can see. And now remember…
420 hectare playing field
Adlershof con.vent. regards itself as much more than a just an event organiser:
More than 1,000 companies. Home of world respected top research. Attraction for 10,000 visitors each year from across the world. Location for pioneers who launched the first test flights here and now found technology…
A perfect location for a conference
Adlershof has become a focal point for international conference organisers:
For the second time now, the optical industry’s EOSAM conference with around 500 participants will be held in Adlershof. The Optical Society of America (OSA) also values the site and holds its lasers conference with a…
Little Korea in Adlershof
Restaurant mani mogo:
Adlershof was once seen to be the Far East of Berlin, albeit without even the remotest reference to its culinary offerings. In the meantime, this science city has evolved into a vibrant, lively part of the capital and…
Science needs culture
In Adlershof there is a diverse cultural programme:
It’s the “creative class” – a term coined by the US urban sociologist Richard Florida – on which the economic success of cities and regions primarily depends, particularly the extent to which it succeeds in attracting…
The women who make things possible
The team of Adlershof con.vent, event and visitors’ service in the science and technology park:
The five is a number full of significance. It is the number of Venus, the Goddess of Love; Aristoteles differentiated the five senses; and the “Famous Five” were the most popular protagonists created by the English…
Cooking with the Kitchen Coach
In the Adlershof cooking studio culinary skills are taught:
Does a baron have its roots in royalty? What actually is lobscouse? And is a cocotte really of a dubious nature? The kitchen nurtures its own language – from barding and boning to trussing and vandyking. And then…
Conventions: The "foreign office" of Adlershof
Guided Tours through the WISTA Technology Park :
A curtsey for the Thai Crown Princess, security for the Tunisian President, a prayer room for Indonesian students and the gift for the Saudi prince: when it comes to visitors and protocol, „Conventions“ is Adlershof‘s…
In the heart of the city of science
Adlershof hotels offer conference infrastructure tailored to science events:
“In the heart of the most advanced technology park in Europe, we provide comfort and services to a high standard,” said Jasmin Thielecke, Manager of the Airporthotel Berlin-Adlershof, referring to the 111 rooms in her…
Adlershof: a mecca for events
Adlershof con.vent. offers unusual, inspiring and well organised locations:
Anyone looking for unusual, inspiring and well organised locations with a special extra something for an event will soon find what they are looking for at the Adlershof Science and Technology Park. Regardless of the…
Destination Adlershof: a city within the city
Scientists, Berliner journalist Paulina Czienskowski recently wrote in the Adlershof Journal, are those curious individuals who spend all their days alone in labs: nerds, lone wolves, oddballs and outsiders. Just how…
Daily creations from the region
Albert Speisemanufaktur offers an authentic, varied cuisine:
“The refectory has just become extinct.” Words to this effect could very well pass through your mind when you stand in front of the Albert-Speisemanufaktur. Next to the Albert café and bistro at Albert-Einstein-Straße…
Cinematic events
In the former airplane hangar in the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Straße a very special event location is being built:
The name is Long Arm. Milo Long Arm. The long arm of the camera robot is not primarily designed for serving sparkling wine, it is true. „But“, Stephan Horst of Visavis film production assures us that „he would most…
Berlin Adlershof: Leading in Optics and Photonics
Germany’s largest Science and Technology Park will present itself at the world’s largest photonics industry trade show Photonics West 2016:
The Science and Technology Berlin Adlershof ranks among the leading locations for research and development of light-based technologies worldwide. Its competencies range from basic research to high-tech companies. Its…
Data highway in space with lasers from the FBH
Launch of the European data relay system EDRS-A:
The launch of the European data relay system on January 29, 2016 is a further milestone to establish an optical data highway in space. This first laser node for a future optical network, located in 36,000 kilometers…
Europe’s first commercial battery plant remains a driver for innovation
Younicos expands stationary battery storage system to restore grid after blackout:
For the first time in Germany, a stationary battery storage system will be capable of restoring a regional electricity distribution grid in case of a major disruption of the electrical supply network. As part of the…
Metal Oxide Sandwiches
BESSY II: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces :
A Franco-German cooperation has investigated a sandwich system of transition metal oxides at BESSY II. The scientists discovered a new option to control properties of the interface between the two layers, for…
Integrating refugees in Berlin
II. International Evening of the Technology Park Adlershof / 120 participants:
About 120 participants got together for the II. International Evening of the Technology Park Adlershof on 20th January 2016 - more than twice as many as for the first meeting in December 2015. Among them were 50…
Setting the basis for further sustainable growth
LUM awards Japanese and Spanish distributors:
The headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof hosted the LUM distributors from 21 countries as well as the international LUM sales force, traditionally in the end of January. During this annual technical and…
Invisible light flash ignites nano-fireworks
Findings of MBI scientists open unprecedented opportunities for both fundamental laser-matter research and applications:
A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin and the University of Rostock demonstrated a new way to turn initially transparent nanoparticles suddenly into strong absorbers for intense laser light…