Falling Walls Lab Mongolia’21 is calling all talented students, researchers, and early career professionals to showcase their most innovative ideas

Students, researchers, and early-career professionals can now apply for Falling Walls Lab Mongolia’21 on 01 October 2021 to present their innovative ideas - in 3 minutes each. Applications are due 22 September 2021.

Ulaanbaatar, 16 September 2021. The call for applications is now open for Falling Walls Lab Mongolia’21. Students, researchers, and early-career professionals are invited to apply with their ground-breaking research, business models, and initiatives from all disciplines.
 
Selected participants are given the opportunity to participate in a pitch competition and present their work to peers, a high-caliber jury of experts from academia and business, and the general public, competing to win a trip to the global Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin, Germany on 8 November 2021 and a ticket to the Falling Walls Conference. At the global Finale, 100 finalists from all over the world compete to become the Breakthrough Winner in the Emerging Talents category of Falling Walls, taking home the title and prize money, and receiving the opportunity to pitch their idea once again on the grand stage of the Falling Walls Conference.
 
The aim of the Falling Walls Lab is to provide a diverse and interdisciplinary pool of students, researchers, and early-career professionals with a world-class platform that helps them drive their innovations, develops their communication skills, and connects them with each other, creating a global network and impactful and sustainable community of innovators and changemakers.
 
The Falling Walls Lab Mongolia’21 will take place on 01 October 2021 at 14:00 o’clock at the Library of the National University of Mongolia, Conference Room 502 and via zoom.us. Applications can be submitted online via www.falling-walls.com/lab/apply until 24 September 2021 (deadline is extended).
 
This hybrid-online event is organized by the Arts & Media Project Management & Consulting NGO (AMPMC) in cooperation with the German-Mongolian Institute for Resource and Technology (GMIT) and the National University of Mongolia (NUM), supported by the Falling Walls Foundation, the Cultural Envoy of Mongolia to the Federal Republic of Germany, Mrs. Oyuntuya Oyunjargal and the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES).
 
The Falling Walls Lab is organised by the Falling Walls Foundation and generously funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Berlin-Senate, Google, and Huawei. It is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the German Academic Exchange (DAAD). For further information, please visit www.falling-walls.com/lab
 
Also, this year we would like to bring together the Mongolian Lab and Engage Alumni as well as young scientists and researchers with the international Falling Walls Engage Community and promote an intensive exchange within the ENGAGEx framework of the Lab-Engage-Collider event on 01 October 2021 at 15:20 o’clock after Lab and the Engage Activation Workshop on 02 October 2021 at 15:00 o’clock.
Registration for attendees until 27 September 2021: https://forms.gle/1pbkf87D5AJdMDFA9
 
Falling Walls Engage is the global platform for Science Engagement since 2018, hosted by the Falling Walls Foundation in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The mission of Falling Walls Engage is to inspire and connect creative individuals who engage communities and actively involve the public in science to impact both sides all around the world. The platform facilitates discourse and commitments around Science Engagement activities, provides visibility to impactful initiatives and creates opportunities for interdisciplinary and international exchange among practitioners and institutions. By advancing the idea of Science Engagement, Falling Walls Engage aims to diminish the gap between science and society, and strengthen the trust in and understanding of scientific findings to contribute to fact-based decision making and the overall wellbeing of our society.