Hurry up! Register now to Falling Walls Lab Mongolia’21 forum for young scientists and researchers

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.
 
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 organized 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
 
Selected participants of Falling Walls Lab Mongolia’21 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, 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 develop their communication skills, and connects them with each other, creating a global network and impactful and sustainable community of innovators and changemakers.

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 29 September 2021: https://forms.gle/1pbkf87D5AJdMDFA9
Click here to download the agenda of Falling Walls Lab Mongolia’21

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.
 
FALLING WALLS FOUNDATION
The Falling Walls Foundation is a non-profit organisation in Berlin, dedicated to the support of science and the humanities. It is a unique international platform for leaders from the worlds of science, business and politics, the arts and society. Falling Walls fosters discussion on research and innovation and promotes the latest scientific findings among a broad audience from all parts of society. The Foundation is supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Helmholtz Association, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and numerous other acclaimed academic institutions, foundations, companies, non-governmental organisations and prominent individuals. More information: www.falling-walls.com

THE GERMAN-MONGOLIAN INSTITUTE FOR RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY (GMIT)
The governments of Germany and Mongolia founded the German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology, GMIT, in 2013 with the objective to promote scientific teaching and research in the mineral resource sector and downstream industries. Being a state university, GMIT operates in close cooperation with German partner universities and other international education institutions.
 
With its strong application-oriented education, and focus on comprehensive personal development of its students, GMIT is unique in Mongolia. GMIT strives to become a leading university of technology and engineering in Mongolia and the Asian region, recognized worldwide for its high standards in education, research, and innovation. GMIT aims to transfer international expertise and cutting-edge standards to Mongolia in support of sustainable economic growth as well as to educate highly qualified, socially responsible, internationally recognised and creatively working engineers.
 
The development of GMIT and its cooperation with German Partner Universities is supported by the Mongolian Ministry of Education and Sciences, the Federal Government of Germany as well as by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). More information: http://gmit.edu.mn

THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA (NUM)
The National University of Mongolia (NUM) is Mongolian leading public university, with more than 20,000 students in 115 undergraduate and 200 graduate programs in most branches of sciences. The university consists of 7 component schools, one graduate school, 8 research institutes and centers, 40 research laboratories and the second largest library in the country. NUM aims to be one of the top 100 universities in Asia and a research university. More information: www.num.edu.mn
 
 ARTS & MEDIA PROJECT MANAGEMENT & CONSULTING NGO (AMPMC)
The Arts & Media Project Management & Consulting NGO (AMPMC) strengthens since 2013 the participation of civil society in the arts and culture sector in Mongolia and contributes to the further development of artistic excellence, cultural exchange and diversity and sustainable international institutional cooperation. It promotes education, science, and research in the fields of arts, culture, and media also in a global context, as well as a unique culture of Mongolia abroad. It stands up for a sustainable and active cross-sectorial-cultural-professionals network internationally and is ideologically and religiously neutral, independent of party politics. It has been cooperating with ministries, governmental agencies, public and private cultural and academic institutions, and individual professionals of both countries in the implementation of over 50 international projects.
More information: www.artsandmediaconsulting.org
 
 
CONTACT
 
AMPMC NGO | Sky Plaza Business Centre, Embassy Street 9, 14220 Ulaanbaatar
Email: info@artsandmediaconsulting.org | Phone: +976 9916 9084 | www.artsandmediaconsulting.org
 
Falling Walls Lab | Falling Walls Foundation, Kochstr. 6-7, 10969 Berlin
Email: lab@falling-walls.com | Phone: + 49 30 609 88 39 71 | www.falling-walls.com  
 
GMIT  | Department of Public Relations | GMIT Campus, 2nd khoroo, Nalaikh district, Ulaanbaatar
Email: burmaa@gmit.edu.mn | Phone: +976-70232090 | http://gmit.edu.mn
 
NUM | Department of Cooperation | Ikh surguuliin gudamj-1, 14200 Ulaanbaatar
Email: int_rel@num.edu.mn | Phone: +976-11-317050, 75754400-(1142) | www.num.edu.mn/