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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
© JenaWirtschaft | Tina Peißker

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
© Stadt Jena | Jens Hauspurg
Blick auf die Innenstadt von Jena in der Dämmerung.

Welcome Blog

Here you will find individual success stories about working in Jena, arriving in the city, Jena with a family, and much more.
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Woman with dark hair looks at the Jentower and shows a heart with her hands
19.6.2025

Arriving in Jena: Aurora Sarkar on challenges, opportunities and cultural impressions

Aurora Sarkar comes from India and has recently moved to Jena. In this interview, she talks about her journey to Germany, the bureaucratic hurdles involved in arriving, her impressions of life in…

06.2.2025

From Poland to Jena: Martyna on her journey to VACOM GmbH

We would like to thank you for the interview and wish you all the best for the future!

13.5.2024

Diversity Day 2024

In Jena, the Diversity Day will be celebrated for the 11th time on 28/05/2024 with various program items, hands-on activities and a colourful stage program. Read our blog post to find out why we from the Welcome Center Jena are taking part and more about the event.

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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.

Panorama-Ansicht von Jena, u.a. mit JenTower, Stadtkirche und B59, Blickrichtung Süd.

We are happy to assist you!

Welcome Center Jena

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

Steinweg 10, 07743 Jena
03641 – 87 300 43 
welcomecenter@jena.de

Opening Hours
Tuesday12 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday12 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday and Friday by appointment only.
Please book your consultation appointment online.
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Welcome Center Jena
Steinweg 10
07743 Jena

Telephone: +49 3641 8730043
E-mail: welcomecenter@jena.de

 

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