How can fish help solve the riddle of ageing in ageing research?

Göschwitz: Take the opportunity to see the Mars rover in miniature and find out more about our optical expertise. Because our lenses will help the "Percy" on its mission to Mars!

Göschwitz: Cutting tires with a laser? Light design on your car thanks to paint removal? No problem with our laser technology! Discover how our laser technology optimizes the production and design of cars.

In our materials testing laboratory, you and your children can find out what's inside your egg before you even unpack it.

Basketballs are exposed to enormous loads during play. High demands are placed on the material. But how much force can a basketball withstand before it bursts?

Materials testers examine the quality of components and joints such as weld seams.

Everyone has made something out of paper or cardboard with glue before. But can you also glue glass and metal together?

Everyone knows how to bake cookies from dough. But what happens when you put metal in the oven?

We almost only know laser beams from the movies. However, lasers are now an indispensable tool in industry.

You and your children can use our hand-held welding laser to practise welding with laser beams - completely safe and uncomplicated.

The welding trade requires special training, a steady hand, specialist knowledge of the appropriate welding processes and lots of practice - or a robot.

Welding is not a harmless joining process, but it is all the more exciting. At ifw Jena, we show you how it's done.

Laser systems are usually expensive investments. The precise systems must be planned and built by experts. However, a laser system can also be built with simple means in a lunch box.

3D printing is an exciting method of producing components from plastic, metal or wood. The models for printing are digitally designed on the computer - or simply scanned in.

From the labs to the streets and the production hall: our "Light and Mobility" exhibition presents technologies that will make the car and production of the future more functional and safer.