Falling Walls Lab Sydney 2024 - Call for Applications

The call for applications is now open for Falling Walls Lab Sydney. Students, researchers, and early-career professionals who are residents of NSW, and ACT 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-calibre jury of experts from academia and business, and the general public. The winners will then compete with the other state finalists at the Falling Walls Lab Australia in Canberra on 30 August 2024 to determine who will be representing Australia at the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin, Germany in November 2024 and win 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 Sydney will take place on 30 July 2024 at 1:00 PM.

Applications can be submitted online until 2 July 2024.

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The Falling Walls Lab Sydney is hosted by EURAXESS Australia & New Zealand and the Australian Academy of Science.

Current status

• Applications for 2024 are now open.
• Closing Date: 2 July 2024, 5.00 pm (AEST). 
• Download all information here.
• Before you apply, familiarise yourself with the application process here

Eligibility Criteria

You must be 18 years or older when submitting your application. You must fulfil at least one of the following formal requirements:

• You are currently enrolled in university
• You are currently a postdoc
• You received a Bachelor’s degree no more than 10 years ago
• You received a Master’s degree no more than 7 years ago
• You received a PhD no more than 5 years ago

* An MD (medical degree excl. a doctoral dissertation) is considered equivalent to a Master’s degree. A Dr. med. (medical degree incl. a doctoral dissertation) is considered equivalent to a PhD. The global diversity of academic degrees is acknowledged.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Past participants are no longer eligible to apply.

For questions: lynn.allan@science.org.au OR nishant.shandilya@euraxess.net

About Falling Walls Lab

Three minutes is all it takes! Falling Walls Lab is a world-class pitch competition, networking forum, and stepping stone that brings together a diverse and interdisciplinary pool of students and early-career professionals by providing a stage for breakthrough ideas both globally and locally.

The multifaceted formats support our participants in driving their innovations and develop their communication skills, fostering collaboration and creating a space for our impactful and sustainable community to thrive.

Throughout the year, renowned academic institutions around the world host international Falling Walls Labs to showcase the quality, diversity, and passion of their region’s most innovative minds. In three minutes each, participants are given the opportunity to present their solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our time to peers, a high-calibre jury of experts from academia and business, and the general public.