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Every second or third week on Friday, we welcome a chat with a cup of coffee and a cookie outside the control room. Come meet the user coordination team, relax with your beamline scientist, inspire and be inspired by our accelerator scientists, recharge your caffeine levels for the final stretch of the week.

Every second or third week on Friday, we welcome a chat with a cup of coffee and a cookie outside the control room. Come meet the user coordination team, relax with your beamline scientist, inspire and be inspired by our accelerator scientists, recharge your caffeine levels for the final stretch of the week.

Von der Steinzeit bis ins Plastik- und Silizium-Zeitalter - und dann? Gemeinsam erfinden wir neue Materialien für eine bessere Zukunft.

Wie wir leben, hängt davon ab, welche Materialien uns zur Verfügung stehen. Unter der Frage "Was könnten wir in Zukunft gebrauchen und wozu?" präsentieren das HZB und die Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung mit verschiedene Materialien - und entwickeln mit Euch zusammen neue Ideen (Eintritt frei, keine Anmeldung erforderlich, barrierefrei nicht zugänglich, max. 15 Personen).

Von der Steinzeit bis ins Plastik- und Silizium-Zeitalter - und dann? Gemeinsam erfinden wir neue Materialien für eine bessere Zukunft.

Wie wir leben, hängt davon ab, welche Materialien uns zur Verfügung stehen. Unter der Frage "Was könnten wir in Zukunft gebrauchen und wozu?" präsentieren das HZB und die Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung mit verschiedene Materialien - und entwickeln mit Euch zusammen neue Ideen (Eintritt frei, keine Anmeldung erforderlich, barrierefrei nicht zugänglich, max. 15 Personen).

Von der Steinzeit bis ins Plastik- und Silizium-Zeitalter - und dann? Gemeinsam erfinden wir neue Materialien für eine bessere Zukunft.

Wie wir leben, hängt davon ab, welche Materialien uns zur Verfügung stehen. Unter der Frage "Was könnten wir in Zukunft gebrauchen und wozu?" präsentieren das HZB und die Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung mit verschiedene Materialien - und entwickeln mit Euch zusammen neue Ideen (Eintritt frei, keine Anmeldung erforderlich, barrierefrei zugänglich, max. 15 Personen).

Ever wondered what the future of clean energy research look like? Meet our researchers and discover their work up close.

In this interactive session, you will get the chance to talk directly with researchers and learn how they use science, technology, and artificial intelligence to find better ways of producing cleaner energy and developing new materials.

What does a scientist’s day look like? What challenges do researchers face? How do new discoveries happen? Bring your questions and explore the stories, ideas, and experiments behind the research! (Free entry, Wheelchair accessible)

The year is 2050. The future of clean energy depends on a laboratory that has suddenly gone silent. Can you bring it back to life?

Step into the role of an emergency research team and enter a futuristic artificial intelligence-powered laboratory where scientists are developing the next generation of sustainable fuels. 

Your mission? Restart the Self-Driving Laboratory (SDL)—a smart research facility that uses automation and artificial intelligence to design and run experiments that accelerate the discovery of better catalysts.

Solve scienece-based challenges within 60 minutes. (Wheelchair accessible, Registration required (see online), Registrations open until 23 October, subject to availability, minimum age for participation 8 years old - if younger, please contact the organizer via e-mail, one person should register on behalf of a group by indicating the total number of participants in the registration form (min participants per slot 4, max 8), Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the activity. Further instructions upon registration)

Some ideas are too early for a pitch, too open for a clear transfer pathway — and too promising to leave unexplored. So, if you have an idea connected to your research or expertise but are not yet sure where it could lead. Then Campus Club – idea2action might be for you.

idea2action is a free three-month programme for researchers who want to give an early idea the time, structure and fresh perspectives it needs to move forward.

Across three interactive co-working days in Adlershof, you will shape your idea, explore its potential, exchange with peers and experts, build useful connections and work towards a realistic next step.

No finished concept. No business plan. No predefined destination.

You bring the idea and drive its development.

Programme dates: 11 November 2026 · 9 December 2026 · 20 January 2027

We are pleased to open the call for applications for Campus Club – idea2action: A Greenhouse for Curious Minds.

Application deadline: 2 October 2026 Language: English Participation: Free of charge Applications: Individually or in teams of up to 3

Every second or third week on Friday, we welcome a chat with a cup of coffee and a cookie outside the control room. Come meet the user coordination team, relax with your beamline scientist, inspire and be inspired by our accelerator scientists, recharge your caffeine levels for the final stretch of the week.

International conference dedicated to revealing dynamic functional interfaces through operando and in situ characterization. Bringing together leading researchers advancing interface science through experiment, theory, and materials design, ONI provides a unique forum to advance atomic- and molecular-scale understanding of dynamic interfaces in catalysis, electrochemistry, batteries, and energy materials.

The scientific program features keynote lectures, invited and contributed talks, poster sessions, and a roundtable discussion moderated by Nature Catalysis, where leading researchers will discuss emerging scientific challenges and future directions in operando nanoscale science. Complementing the scientific program, a second high-level roundtable discussion will bring together representatives from academia, industry, and public policy to explore how science and innovation can accelerate the global energy transition. 

Every second or third week on Friday, we welcome a chat with a cup of coffee and a cookie outside the control room. Come meet the user coordination team, relax with your beamline scientist, inspire and be inspired by our accelerator scientists, recharge your caffeine levels for the final stretch of the week.

With the series of annual user meetings, we bring together our user community to intensify scientific exchange and stimulating new collaborations. The meetings will provide an overview of the many exciting and inspiring research results obtained at our facility in the past year and will emphasize on future developments in particular on BESSY III. Plenary talks, discussions, a public lecture, the market place of innovation and a poster session will provide vast possibilities of information and discussion. The bestowals of the 'Prizes for Young Scientists' donated by the Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. (FHZB) are traditional highlights of the user meetings.

Some ideas are too early for a pitch, too open for a clear transfer pathway — and too promising to leave unexplored. So, if you have an idea connected to your research or expertise but are not yet sure where it could lead. Then Campus Club – idea2action might be for you.

idea2action is a free three-month programme for researchers who want to give an early idea the time, structure and fresh perspectives it needs to move forward.

Across three interactive co-working days in Adlershof, you will shape your idea, explore its potential, exchange with peers and experts, build useful connections and work towards a realistic next step.

No finished concept. No business plan. No predefined destination.

You bring the idea and drive its development.

Programme dates: 11 November 2026 · 9 December 2026 · 20 January 2027

We are pleased to open the call for applications for Campus Club – idea2action: A Greenhouse for Curious Minds.

Application deadline: 2 October 2026 Language: English Participation: Free of charge Applications: Individually or in teams of up to 3

Every second or third week on Friday, we welcome a chat with a cup of coffee and a cookie outside the control room. Come meet the user coordination team, relax with your beamline scientist, inspire and be inspired by our accelerator scientists, recharge your caffeine levels for the final stretch of the week.

Some ideas are too early for a pitch, too open for a clear transfer pathway — and too promising to leave unexplored. So, if you have an idea connected to your research or expertise but are not yet sure where it could lead. Then Campus Club – idea2action might be for you.

idea2action is a free three-month programme for researchers who want to give an early idea the time, structure and fresh perspectives it needs to move forward.

Across three interactive co-working days in Adlershof, you will shape your idea, explore its potential, exchange with peers and experts, build useful connections and work towards a realistic next step.

No finished concept. No business plan. No predefined destination.

You bring the idea and drive its development.

Programme dates: 11 November 2026 · 9 December 2026 · 20 January 2027

We are pleased to open the call for applications for Campus Club – idea2action: A Greenhouse for Curious Minds.

Application deadline: 2 October 2026 Language: English Participation: Free of charge Applications: Individually or in teams of up to 3