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Apply now for this year’s Falling Walls Lab Rhineland, which will take place on May 25, 2020 at the RWTH Aachen University. Bachelor and Master students, postdocs, early-career researchers, junior professionals, entrepreneurs and junior professors are invited to apply. Ground-breaking research projects, initiatives, ideas and business models from all disciplines are welcome.
Selected participants will compete at Falling Walls Lab Rhineland to win a trip to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin on November 8, 2020, and a ticket to the Falling Walls Conference. In total, 100 applicants world-wide can qualify for the Finale in Berlin. Each finalist will receive the opportunity to again 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 Finale 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 aim of the Falling Walls Lab is to foster scientific and entrepreneurial innovations, and to promote the exchange between outstanding emerging scholars and professionals from various fields of expertise.
Submit your applications online until April 15, 2020.
This year the Falling Walls Lab Rhineland is hosted by the RWTH Aachen University in cooperation with University of Bonn, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Cologne and Forschungszentrum Jülich and will take place on May 25th, 2020 (3 pm) at RWTH Aachen, SuperC, Templergraben 57, 52062 Aachen.