Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The Falling Walls Lab Mongolia, with an aim to foster scientific and entrepreneurial innovations, and to promote the exchange between outstanding emerging scholars and professionals from various fields of expertise, will take place on 29 May 2020 digitally via www.zoom.us online platform due to COVID-19 pandemic.

John Nixon, the representative of DAAD in Mongolia, emphasizes that “The DAAD is very pleased to support the second annual Falling Walls Lab in Mongolia. Just as the falling of the Berlin Wall 31 years ago ushered in a new era of openness and exchange, so too does the Falling Walls event provide bright young researchers and innovators from around the world with the opportunity to demonstrate and exchange their new ideas. Come and participate in this meeting place of great young minds!”

Selected participants will compete to win a trip to the Falling Walls Lab Finals in Berlin, Germany on 8 November 2020 and a ticket to the Falling Walls Conference. In total, 100 applicants qualify for the Finals in Berlin. Each finalist will receive the opportunity to present their research work, initiative or business model within three minutes in front of a high-calibre jury from academia, research and business. The three winners receive a cash prize and the opportunity to present their idea on the grand stage of the Falling Walls Conference the next day.

The call for applications is now open for this year’s international Falling Walls Labs, an annual global gathering of forward-thinking individuals from over 75 countries. Bachelor and Master students, postdocs, young professionals, entrepreneurs, and junior professors are invited to apply. Ground-breaking research projects, initiatives, ideas and business models from all disciplines are welcome.

Early-career researchers, entrepreneurs and professionals can apply for the Falling Walls Lab Mongolia digital event to present their research work - in 3 minutes each. Applications can be submitted via www.falling-walls.com/lab/apply until 05 May 2020.

The Falling Walls Lab is hosted by the German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Techno-logy (GMIT) and organized by the Arts & Media Project Management & Consulting NGO (AMPMC) in cooperation with the Cultural Envoy of Mongolia, GMIT and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The official partner is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, cooperation partners are the Federal Foreign Office and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. Official media partners are Mongolian Economy and business.mn.

The Falling Walls Lab is organized by the Falling Walls Foundation and generously funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Berlin-Senate, the Bayer Foundations, Huawei, and Sartorius. It is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the DAAD.

The Falling Walls Foundation is a non-profit organisation that fosters the discussion on research and innovation and promotes the latest scientific findings among a broad audience from all parts of society. For the Falling Walls Conference, each year on 9 November, 20 of the world’s leading scientists present their current breakthrough research in 15 minutes each.

The Falling Walls Foundation is supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Helmholtz Association and numerous other acclaimed academic institutions, foundations, and companies.

For further information, please visit www.falling-walls.com/lab or fb.me/FallingWallsLabMongolia and https://twitter.com/walls_lab

Published Date:2020-04-28