Welcome to Jena:
Working and living in the City of Light.

The perfect mix: Jena offers exciting career prospects and an optimal work-life balance. Here you will find all information about working and living in the City of Light. The Welcome Center Jena team will be happy to provide you with personal advice.

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Junger Auszubildender inspiziert ein Messgerät
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Working in Jena

No matter whether you come to Jena as a future trainee, young professional, competent specialist or manager: Jena offers varied perspectives for your own career path. The location scores with fast-growing, diverse companies, high esteem of the resident companies for their employees and exciting jobs with a future.

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Living in Jena

Jena is young, colourful and diverse. In addition to exciting tasks in diverse companies, you will find a young cultural scene, varied leisure activities and beautiful nature in Jena. Here you can not only work well, but also live wonderfully. Jena is cosmopolitan, family-friendly and offers a high quality of life. Not for nothing does the city on the Saale river bears the nickname “Paradise” – derived from the inner-city “Paradise Park”.

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Menschen sitzen auf Wiese, im Hintergrund Bäume, dahinter Turm
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Blick auf die Innenstadt von Jena in der Dämmerung.

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Here you will find individual success stories about working in Jena, arriving in the city, Jena with a family, and much more.

Portrait einer lächelnden Frau.
05.5.2022

Counselling centres in Jena: Career Point at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

In part three of our series on contact points in Jena, we introduce you to Karolin Ulbricht from the Career Point at Friedrich Schiller University.

Two smiling women sit at the table in a counselling situation.
14.4.2022

Counselling centres in Jena: Career Service at the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena

In the second part of our series on contact points in Jena, we introduce you to Franziska Stang, who advises on the optimal transition from study to work at the Career Service of Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena.

Eine Dame steht lächelnd vor dem Eingang Ihres Arbeitsplatzes in der Wagnergasse, im Hintergrund der JenTower.
15.3.2022

Counselling centres in Jena: Migration counselling for adult immigrants (MBE) of Caritas

In this series, we will introduce you to counselling centres in Jena. We start with Judith Böhnisch, social pedagogue at Caritas.
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Jena – a paradise for skilled workers.

Never been to Jena? Then it’s about time! We invite you to get to know Jena as a wonderful city to work and live in. Our work-in-jena film will give you a first overview.

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Welcome Center Jena

We are available as your contact partner for all issues relating to working and living in Jena.

Teichgraben 5, 07743 Jena
03641 – 87 300 43 
welcomecenter@jena.de

Opening Hours
Monday10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesday12 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday –
Thursday12 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
and by individual appointment

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