Adlershof Journal September/October 2025
Future Energy? We’re taking care of it:
IMPULSE by Julia Bläsius: Halfway to Climate Neutrality: What’s the Next Step? IN CONVERSATION WITH Oliver Arnhold, who plans charging infrastructure for electromobility at Localiser PORTRAIT The Solar Consultant:…
From the editors
Energy for Happiness
The Germans can always find plenty of reasons to complain. The weather is usually at the top of the list, followed in close second by public transport. You can decide for yourself where to rank the other issues – the healthcare system, housing market, bureaucracy, and, of course, politics. Maybe it’s just part of our cultural DNA? In any case, according to the World Happiness Report – which takes into account factors such as income, health, and sense of freedom – the level of happiness in this country is definitely not great.
So what can we learn from our Scandinavian neighbours who were ranked happiest in the report? Researchers include things such as composure, creativity, courage, and strong social connections. These are qualities which the first founders of the Technology Park also possessed, and which continue to enable them to operate successfully today. In this autumn journal, we take a look at the energy that drives us – in terms of real technology, but also figuratively as ideas and attitudes. By using examples from photovoltaics, climate-neutral fuels, geothermal energy, and battery research to impressively demonstrate the vast expertise of the key players based here, and in the cover story, we examine the master plan that is being jointly developed by various location partners to make the Adlershof Technology Park climate resilient for the future.
And so we have come full circle: happiness is found where people create things together – or, as the Berlin Zukunftsorte (“Future Locations”) say: the future will be good because we are shaping it!
Sincerely,
Peggy Mory
Editor-in-chief
Articles
Halfway to Climate Neutrality: What’s the Next Step?
Impulse by Julia Bläsius, Director of German Operations at Agora Energiewende:
Since 1990, Germany has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 48 percent – meaning it is almost halfway to achieving climate neutrality. A significant contribution to this comes from wind farms and solar power. In…
In conversation with Oliver Arnhold
At Localiser, he plans charging infrastructure for electromobility:
A spin off of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), electromobility and hydrogen expert Localiser describes itself today as the market leader in Germany when it comes to the planning of charging infrastructure. “We’ve…
The Solar Consultant
Niklas Albinius shares his knowledge about building with photovoltaics:
Who knows what his career path would have looked like if he hadn’t asked the question? Niklas Albinius’ curiosity was piqued after a lecture on ‘Solar Construction’ at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin,…
A Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Technology Districts
A master plan for climate resilience is intended to prepare Adlershof, as well as other locations, for the future:
Climate change is very much here and so it’s high time to prepare the technology park for the future. How exactly this will be done is currently being worked out with the support of WISTA, with a master plan being…
Broken but not Defeated – The Adlershof Pioneers
After 1990, GDR scientists such as Christine Wedler and Norbert Langhoff turned Adlershof into an economic success story:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many scientists in the former East Germany suddenly found themselves without any prospects. This was the case for Christine Wedler and Norbert Langhoff when they had to start over –…
Fully charged
The newly founded Berlin Battery Lab (BBL) combines the expertise of three research institutions:
The newly founded Berlin Battery Lab (BBL) combines the expertise of the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU)…
Diodes for Fusion Power Plants
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut is accelerating the development of a key component:
As part of the “Fusion 2040 – Research on the Way to a Fusion Power Plant” programme, the German government is investing around 1.2 billion euros over the next five years into the development of this climate-neutral,…
Turning Impairments into Enrichments
How a research project aims to attract more employees with disabilities to the technology park:
Specialist staff are crucial when it comes to helping companies to progress. Although the potential offered by people with disabilities has long been overlooked, things are slowly changing… In some companies, people…
Energy from CO₂
A spark is ignited for the future of fuels:
Carbon dioxide is often only ever viewed as a greenhouse gas. However, it can also be an important raw material. The startup Spark e-Fuels hopes to use it to produce synthetic fuels, known as e-fuels. But there is a…
News in brief
Open-Air Cinema at the Technology Park
WISTA Management GmbH, together with Hörsaalkino Adlershof and the Health Network, invite you to the outdoor cinema on 17 September (‘Bohemian Rhapsody’). The screening will take place on the lawn behind the WISTA building (access via Volmerstraße 2) at 7pm. Doors open at 6.30pm, entry is free, and drinks and popcorn are available.
Falling Walls Lab Winner 2025
On 15 July 2025, Julian Bopp from the Institute for Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin managed to convince the jury of the Falling Walls Lab Berlin-Adlershof with his three-minute pitch on ‘Breaking the Wall of Mobile Magnetic Imaging’. The Falling Walls Lab Berlin-Adlershof is the North German preliminary round and is jointly organised by BAM and the IGAFA research network. The competition brings together young scientists who present their innovative ideas and projects. The winner will be eligible to take part in the Falling Walls Lab Final on 7 November and the Falling Walls Science Summit 2025.
New secure bicycle parking spaces at Adlershof S-Bahn station
At the end of May, new secure bicycle parking facilities with 24 parking spaces went into operation at the Adlershof S-Bahn station. The facility is located in the immediate vicinity of a Jelbi station operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). Bicycle spaces can be booked via the ParkYourBike app.
The new facility was constructed as part of the Bike+Ride initiative, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy and Deutsche Bahn.
By early 2027, similar secure bicycle parking facilities are to be built at nine additional public transport stations in the Treptow-Köpenick area, including Berlin’s first bicycle parking garage at Schöneweide station.
Brückenschlag on Tour
Discover Berlin’s smartest neighbourhood this autumn on two different tours. Ever wondered what researchers actually do at the Adlershof Technology Park? We are opening the doors to the German Aerospace Centre and the BESSY II particle accelerator at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin on 16 September (start: 5pm, Am Studio 1a). On 24 September 2025, you can immerse yourself in the colourful history of the Adlershof Technology Park (start: 5pm, Rudower Chaussee 24). “Brückenschlag on Tour” is a joint project of the Lebendiges Zentrum und Quartier Dörpfeldstraße Adlershof and WISTA Management GmbH.
The participation fee is 15 euros per walk.
To sign up: doerpfeld(at)die-raumplaner.de
New tours in autumn 2025:
www.adlershof.de/news/brueckenschlag-on-tour-2025
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