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JENA LOCATION FOR THE ADVANCED.

IN , many visitors from abroad are on the go every day. They are here to meet with their associate company, as scientists or visiting as tourists. In Jena, they are being welcomed with open arms, because this city has an international focus and cultivates contacts around the world. At the end of their stay, many guests say: I want to come back to Jena. www.jena-business.com . FIVE 1. 2 REASONS FOR JENA ARRIVING IN JENA’S PARADISE JENA IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT Yes, it is true. Jena’s main train station is really called: PARADISE (Paradies). It has been named after the adjoining People from all over the world live in Jena. The reason is obvious: park, which is a popular destination for locals and tourists Jena’s companies are among ’s export champions. The alike. By the way, 20 percent of our guests come from export quota of the local industries is about 56 percent. So those abroad, as well as an additional 7 percent foreign students. travelling to Jena are mainly here on business. 80 percent of all This makes Jena the number one international meeting hotel guests in Jena are business travellers. point in the German state of .

3. JENA IS A HIGH-TECH CENTRE

Jena’s economy is characterized by technology- based industries and the presence of inter- nationally known companies and research institutions. The city’s pro le has been 5. shaped by names such as Zeiss, , JENA FEELS LIKE HOME Schott, Analytik Jena, Alere Technologies 4. and Intershop. Jena is also home to two JENA IS MORE Nobody likes missing the morning paper. Start universities and numerous internation- THAN JUST BUSINESS your day well informed and pick-up an English ally renowned scienti c institutes. newspaper at one of the internationally orien- Friedrich Schiller is the author of world-famous plays tated hotels, the local newsagents or the train such as Maria Stuart and Wilhelm Tell. The German writer station. If you are in the mood for shopping, lived in Jena for ten years and was one of the most shopping centres and many stores open between famous professors at the university. Johann Wolfgang von 9 am and 8 pm. There are international chain Goethe, the German poet laureate, also spent more than ve years stores as well as regional vendors offering typical in Jena. Find out what attracted these two great men. German products and Jena specialties.

Services of Jena Business Development A GREAT WAY TO on WWW.JENA-BUSINESS.COM ■ Detailed information on the different industries in Jena such as AND THERE IS MORE START IN JENA optical and photonic technologies, life sciences, software and TO DISCOVER IN JENA: e-commerce, analytics and bioanalytics, precision engineering and www.jenatourismus.de green technologies

■ Our ‘Jena Bag’ with brochures, publications, and informational material about Jena as a business location ■ The “Friedrich Schiller University Jena”: 1. Tourist Information Jena ■ Welcome service – Corporate customers can book our welcome www.uni-jena.de For detailed travel information including accommodation listings service for new and prospective employees. Our staff can show and to book your room visit the Tourist Information Jena online. ■ The Jena University of Applied Sciences „Ernst- them around Jena, answer questions and help them deal with all Abbe-Fachhochschule Jena“: www.fh-jena.de the necessary paperwork.

■ Markt 16 . 07743 Jena . phone +49 (0)3641 49-8050 . Fax +49 (0)3641 49-8055 . [email protected] . www.jenatourismus.de The scienti c network „Beutenberg Campus“: JENA TOURIST-INFORMATION Jan – Mar Mo – Fr 10 am to 6 pm Sat 10 am to 3 pm . Apr – Dec Mon – Fri 10 am to 7 pm Sat, Sun 10 am to 4 pm www.jenatourismus.de (Informative literature) Public holidays throughout the year 10 am to 4 pm . Closed: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Labour Day, Christmas Day 8 1 Antiquity CollectionsCollections

2 Botanicall GardenGarden

3 Collegiumm JJenenseenense www.beutenberg.de 4 Ernst Abbebe MonumentMonument 15 5 Ernst Haeckeleckel HouseHouse

20 6 Goethe Memorialemorial

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9 JenTower/Observation/Observation pplatformlatform 10 10 St. John'ss CCemeteryemetery aandnd ■ Church off PPeaceeace The Planetarium by the company Carl Zeiss: 11 St. John's GGateate & PPowderowder TTowerower 6 2 11 12 Johannes CChurchhurch 12 13 Market squareuare wwithith HHanfriedanfried monumentt & tthehe hhistoricalistorical 2. City map town hall 14 Mineralogicalgical CCollectionollection 9 23 15 Museum 11806,806, JJena-Cospedaena-Cospeda JENA. www.planetarium-jena.de 7 24 16 Optical Museumuseum DID YOU KNOW 13 17 Paradies/VVolksparkolkspark OOberaueberaue 3  18 Museum ooff Phhylogeneticsylogenetics 16 4 Jena’s city map provides useful information. The 19 Romanticists'ists' househouse LOCATION FOR THE ADVANCED. 27 19 20 Schiller Churchhurch

gudman.de 21 Schiller's SummerSummer HouseHouse ■ 22 Schott Glassass MMuseumuseum & VillaVilla The Optical Museum and the SCHOTT Glass Museum: 23 St. Michaelel TownTown ChurchChurch 25 map can be downloaded or you can order a paper 24 Jena Municipalnicipal MuseumMuseum & Art Collectionction Are you interested in the 21 26 25 Theatre HouseHouse 26 Volksbad JenaJena THAT JENA ...

5 27 Volkshauss JenaJena www.optischesmuseum.de and www.schott.com version by mail. 18 28 Zeiss-Planetariumnetarium JenaJena SAALE technology location Jena? Saale Cyclele RouteRoute

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1 22 17 Churches CycleCycle RouteRoute Walking ttrailrail SSaaleHorizontaleaaleHorizontale The local campaign „Jena. ■ The street „Wagnergasse“ and the historic market i Jena Tourist-Informationrist-Information ✗ is the second-largest city in the German state of Thuringia with 106,000 inhabitants Location for the advanced“ with many hip cafés and restaurants shows Jena’s competencies at a glance. For further in- ■ A soccer match with Jena’s very own club FC CARL www.jena-business.com ✗ Jena is home to about 6,000 companies formation please refer to ZEISS JENA or a basketball match with the local (members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry) www.jena-business.com. team Science City Jena: www.fc-carlzeiss-jena.de 3. Information at a glance ✗ 6.8 of 100 employees in Jena are engineers and www.baskets-jena.de The German average is 2.6 percent For important information concerning the technology- ■ A concert of the Jena Philharmonics: location Jena, please refer to the Jena Business Devel- www.jenaer-philharmonie.de opment website.

■ Close to Jena – the city of the classics Weimar: CONTACT: Jena Business Development www.weimar.de (Wirtschaftsfoerderungsgesellschaft Jena mbH) Postal Address: Postfach 100338, 07703 Jena Street Address: Leutragraben 2-4, 07743 Jena Phone: +49 (0) 3641 87300-30 | Fax: +49 (0) 3641 87300-59 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.jena-business.com