Berlin Adlershof. Science at Work.
Discover the myth of Adlershof: founded in 1754, birthplace of German aviation, and site for research, film and television. Today the area has around 20,000 inhabitants, most located in the heart of the "old village". The Technology Park is close to the former airfield, now a landscape park.
The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology locations in Germany—and Berlin’s largest media site. Renowned non-university research institutes, the natural sciences campus of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1,330 businesses and a rich history await you at Berlin-Brandenburg’s top Science, Business and Media hub. More than 34,000 people work and study in the science city of Adlershof, which covers an area of 4.6 km². Learn more about all the facts and figures…
News
Too warm for comfort
Climate researcher Tobias Sauter studies the melting of glaciers:
Nowhere are the effects of climate change more visible than in the world’s glaciers. The loss of ice masses is immense. Climate researcher Tobias Sauter investigates how and why the melting of glaciers is…
Crystals and careers
How research is turned into business:
New technologies require one thing above all else. They take time. It takes years for a good idea to grow into a viable spin-off,” says Thomas Schröder, director of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in…
Time matters
Which research questions call for short measurement times, and which analyses require longer ones? A brief journey through time and the Adlershof campus:
Watching molecular and atomic building blocks while they work? This is made possible by operando studies. Such deep insights at an atomic resolution are facilitated by BESSY II, a research facility operated by the…
Art with conviction
Core human values are made visible at the ST3AM workspaces in Adlershof and Charlottenburg:
Art in offices is often little more than a meaningless splash of colour on the wall. But it can be done differently. With a clear colour concept, artist Sarah Masura and interior designer Urve Liivak joined forces to…
Current journal issue
Adlershof Journal November/December 2025
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Portrait of the Adlershof Technology Park pdf (761,75 KB)Facts and figures on the high-tech locationpdf (761,75 KB) -
Map of the Technology Park Adlershof pdf (1,93 MB)Map with infrastructure, transport connections and a directory of important facilitiespdf (1,93 MB) -
DIW ECON Report Adlershof pdf (402,73 KB)The economic significance of the Technology Centres in Berlin-Adlershof / Summary of results (in German) / Ed. WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH, 2015.pdf (402,73 KB)