Falling Walls

The Falling Walls conference is an annual global gathering of forward thinking individuals from 75 countries. Each year, 20 of the world’s leading scientists are invited to Berlin to present their current breakthrough research. The aim of the conference is to:

- connect science with industry, politics, media and culture

- identify trends, opportunities and solutions for global challenges

- make research understandable to a broad audience

- inspire people to break down the walls that we face today

The initial conference was held in 2009 on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to celebrate this historic day by looking into the future and getting an understanding of the world of tomorrow. It was hosted by Berlin’s newly established scientific Einstein Foundation and supported by a wide variety of academic institutions. Ninety per cent of the participants said that they would like to return.

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