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”.

Discover Jena

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.

Acht Personen posieren vor dem Eingangsbereich des Welcome Center Jena.

05.5.2023

One year Welcome Center Jena

Happy Birthday Welcome Center: we are celebrating the first year in our premises in Jena’s centre and are looking to the future with a great deal of drive!

Gruppenfoto von mehreren weiblichen Personen.

23.3.2023

Empowerment and networking – International Women’s Day at the Welcome Center Jena

For this year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Welcome Center Jena team invited international women to a networking event. Read more about the exchange and networking of women and why these are essential factors for professional advancement and personal well-being in the blog post.

Vier Personen unterhalten sich am Messestand.

27.1.2023

Jena shines at Photonics West

Photonics West in San Francisco, the world’s largest trade fair for research and technology in the field of photonics, will soon begin. Find out more about the 21 exhibitors from our city of light, about innovations made in Jena and what the fair participants like to do most in their free time in our blog post.

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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.