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Diversity is a big strength for businesses – when it’s practiced in everyday culture

In conversation with Anja Dargel, General Representative at Berliner Sparkasse, and Bessie Fischer-Bohn, Head of HR at WISTA Management GmbH:

WISTA is again hosting the Diversity Conference Adlershof. Why is this an important topic? Bessie Fischer-Bohn: We offer a framework for sustainable economic growth at Adlershof Technology Park. For a long time, this…

Berlin Adlershof: Companies surpass 4 billion euros in revenue for the first time and continue to be optimistic about the future

Germany’s largest Science and Technology Park doubles its revenue in just eight years:

The Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof continued its positive development in 2024. Revenues and budget funds rose by 3.5% to over 4.0 bn. euros (2023: 3.9 bn. euros). The number of employees grew by 1,100 to…

Berlin Adlershof: Facts and figures

Berlin Adlershof is Germany’s largest and most successful Science and Technology Park as well as Berlin’s largest media location—embedded in an overall urban development concept. Spanning an area of 4.6 km², the park…

Dr Kristin Klaue receives 2024 Adlershof Dissertation Award

The chemist lays the foundation for targeted, light-based medicine with photoswitchable molecules:

On 20 March 2025, the Adlershof Dissertation Award was granted for the 23rd time in a row. Dr Kristin Klaue received the 3,000 euro prize, which is donated and organised annually by the research network IGAFA e. V.,…

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…

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…

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…

In conversation with Melissa Horchemer

The WISTA project manager wants to show young people career and academic opportunities in the natural sciences:

Coming from a non-academic family living in a socially disadvantaged area of Duisburg, Melissa Horchemer was far from predestined for a career in the STEM sector. Yet, this background didn’t hold her back—it inspired…

New energy, new connections

Introducing an innovative world of work, ST3AM is now opening on the Adlershof campus:

Wealthy regions offer talent, technology—research, development, and academia—, tolerance—communities that practice openness and diversity—, and land available for development. This is complemented by other ecological…

The raise of Remote Work – is the importance of STPs & AOIs overestimated today?

WISTA Managing Director Roland Sillmann at the annual conference of the IASP - International Association of Science Parks in Nairobi :

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY From running one of Europe's leading STPs, we know that physical proximity fosters entrepreneurship and innovation and transfers scientific knowledge into products that help tackle the grand…

Future of work: Life-long-learning, values and purpose

WISTA Head of Human Resources Bessie Fischer-Bohn spoke at the IASP conference in Nairobi on the challenges of the “New World of Work”:

Executive Summary The future of work is undergoing significant changes, marked by global challenges and transformative megatrends. We define three main challenges: shifting values, demographic transformation, rapid…

What a Feeling

The learning materials from the start-up ‘Little Feels’ are a great way to train children’s emotions:

“We are currently living in a type of mental health crisis,” says Mariette Herzog. “Every fourth child in German daycare centres exhibits signs of social-emotional developmental deficits. Twenty percent of all…

Adlershof Technology Park is committed to openness and tolerance

Start of major online and offline campaign with banners and posters:

35,000 people, 35,000 stories. One goal: Crafting future from diverse perspectives. WISTA Management GmbH, managing company of the Adlershof Technology Park, has initiated a local campaign for more tolerance and…

An ecosystem for talent

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…

Berlin Adlershof: High technology, skilled employees and openness as key success factors

Germany's largest science and technology park remains an important pillar of Berlin's economy :

The Berlin Adlershof Science and Technology Park continued its positive development in 2023. Revenues and budget funds grew by a solid 7.1% to € 3.9 billion (2022: € 3.6 billion). The number of employees remained…

Blossoming landscapes in IT

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…

Materially enabling the circular economy

At TechConnect Adlershof, scientific institutions, innovators, and companies discussed how new materials enable a circular economy:

When someone like Patrick Teuffel matter-of-factly uses the words “ongoing progress” to describe the workings of his industry - instead of the ubiquitous “ongoing process” – it says very clearly something about how…

In conversation with Rawad Chammas

The mechanical engineer takes care of knowledge transfer at WISTA Management GmbH:

When he studied mechanical engineering at Technische Universität Berlin, Rawad Chammas had already discovered his passion for the processes and transfer of knowledge during the various phases of technology…

Digital twins

A new platform pools data from eleven different sites in Berlin generating future innovation:

Berlin’s Zukunftsorte, German for ‘places of the future’, are pivotal sites generating future innovation in technology across the German capital. They are made up of 2,200 companies and 42 scientific institutions,…

Adlershof Journal July/August 2023

Wild society: what we can learn from animals:

The fly counter: Sami Domisch documents the distribution of maturing insects in the water //  Safari on the doorstep: The city nature rangers know how much Adlershof is buzzing and scurrying //  Winged visitors: A…