Falling Walls Lab

The Falling Walls Foundation is a non-profit organisation that fosters discussion on research and innovation, and promotes the latest scientific findings among a broad audience from all parts of society. It organises the Falling Walls Conference, a unique international gathering of leaders from science, business, politics and the arts. Each year on 9 November, 20 of the world's leading scientists present their current breakthrough research in 15 minutes each. The Falling Walls Foundation is supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research, the Helmholtz Association, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and numerous other acclaimed academic institutions, foundations, and companies, non-governmental organisations and prominent individuals.