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.
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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.

13.3.2024

Weltoffenes Thüringen – we are part of it!

We from JenaBusiness and Work in Jena clearly position ourselves in favour of cosmopolitanism, diversity and tolerance and support the initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen.

27.11.2023

Examples for an international Jena: Ralitsa & 2b-special GmbH

Ralitsa is from Bulgaria and has a doctorate in the field of glass chemistry. She now works at 2b-special GmbH in Kahla, a manufacturer of preforms for optical fibres. In this interview, she talks about the hurdles she faced when arriving in Jena and what she particularly appreciates about Jena as an optical centre.

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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.