About FWLS
SHARE YOUR IDEA AND WIN A TRIP TO BERLIN!
The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin on 8 November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale on 8 November 2019 in Berlin. The Falling Walls Lab is supported by the Berlin Senate, the Bayer Foundations, Sartorius and X, the moonshot factory.
Falling Walls Lab SENDAI, in Japan
Falling Walls Lab Sendai is hosted by Tohoku University in association with the Tohoku Forum for Creativity (TFC).
Bachelor and Master students, PhD candidates, postdocs, young professionals and entrepreneurs from all scientific disciplines are invited to apply.
· If an applicant has only a Bachelor’s degree, the degree should not date back more than 10 years.
· If an applicant has a Master’s degree, the degree should not date back more than 7 years.
· If an applicant has a PhD, the degree should not date back more than 5 years.
· Students and postdocs which are currently enrolled in university are also eligible to apply.
The Falling Walls Lab Sendai will take place on Friday 30 August, 2019 at the 3rd floor, Lecture Theater, TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity, Tohoku University.
The Prizes
First winner of the Falling Walls Lab Sendai will receive a full support of a trip to Berlin, Germany, for participating in the Falling Walls Lab Finale and Conference on 8–9 November, 2019.
Second and Third prizes will be announced shortly.
**Three winners of the Falling Walls Lab Finale will get a chance to speak once more on the grand stage of the Falling Walls Conference on 9 November 2019 (which hundreds of executives, investors, and policy makers are gathered). Also, they will receive a cash prize, and the opportunity to win a six–month Virtual Residency with Nature Careers of the global publisher Springer Nature.
Your Presentation
Each participant is asked to present his/her work in 3 minutes (2.30 minute–presentation and a half–minute Q&A) with a presentation file containing 4 slides.
1st slide: Your presentation title, your name and affiliation
2nd slide: Problems you are going to solve
3rd slide: Your innovative solutions
4th slide: Q&A
A prestigious jury from science and business awards the best participants. The jury is allowed to ask questions or to make comments during your speech. Further discussion will be welcome during the several breaks and reception party.
Scoring System
The jury evaluates based on the following criteria,
a) Breakthrough Factor (how innovative is the proposed idea?) – 50%
b) Relevance/Impact (how relevant is the idea for the discipline and beyond?) – 30%, and
c) Structure/Performance (how convincing was the presentation?) – 20%
You can find more information at FALLING–WALLS.COM