The Université du Luxembourg has opened a public ideas contest, titled “Falling Walls Labs”, in order to offer a platform to students, early-stage researchers and young professionals with all kinds of ground-breaking new research projects, initiatives or business ideas.
The original concept, developed by non-profit organisation Falling Walls Foundation, has been a worldwide phenomenon, and now for the very first time this competition of ideas will be held in Luxembourg too.
“Falling Walls Lab Luxembourg” will take place on Wednesday 1 July 2015 at 14:00 in the “Maison du Savoir” in Esch-Belval. Twelve young talents, who have already been selected, will introduce their projects to the general public in the form of short presentations.
Investors, students and anyone else who is interested and would like to follow the competition as a member of the general public are all cordially invited to attend.
The “Falling Walls Lab” project aims to promote scientific and entrepreneurial innovation and foster exchanges between the next generation of scientists and young business talents from every possible field of activity. As well as the presentation of these innovative ideas, there will also be a keynote speech delivered by the distinguished scientist and speaker Dr. Andreas Weigend. Dr. Weigen was formerly the leading scientist at Amazon and now teaches at both Stanford University and UC Berkeley.
The winners from all the national “Falling Walls Labs” will compete in the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin on 8 November 2015 and will also attend the prestigious international Falling Walls Conference, an annual global gathering of forward-thinking individuals from over 75 countries. At this conference, twenty leading researchers will present their ground-breaking projects, all addressing the question: “which are the next walls to fall?”
A total of around one hundred competitors will qualify for the final round in Berlin. Each finalist will have three minutes to present their research work, initiative or business idea to a top-calibre jury with judges from the scientific, research and business world. The winners will receive prize money and the opportunity to deliver their presentation again to the 800 guests at the Conference. For many winners, the “Falling Walls Lab” has become a spring board for their careers.
The University of Luxembourg is organising “Falling Walls Lab Luxembourg”, which is being supported by the Falling Walls Foundation and A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm (founding partner), as well as Festo, a worldwide leading supplier of automation technology.
If you are interested in attending, please register in advance by sending an e-mail before 29 June 2015 to falling-walls@uni.lu.
