7.00 am - 7.00 pm
A day of live pitches in the categories:
Emerging Talents (Falling Walls Lab)
for the next generation of outstanding innovators.
Science Engagement (Falling Walls Engage)
for inspiring science engagers.
Science Start-Ups (Falling Walls Venture)
for young start-ups based on scientific research.
7.00 am - 7.00 pm
Our format to debate the contribution of science to society. Global science leaders from academia, government, business and society discuss the biggest challenges we face and the foresight that scientific breakthroughs can offer.
Some of the topics of the Falling Walls Circle Tables, which will be debated on 8 November 2022, are:
Be our guest and join these international debates as part of the audience with high-level experts from science, industry, politics and civil society!
7.00 am - 7.00 pm
On the anniversary day of the historic fall of the Berlin Wall, the Breakthrough Day provides a stage for outstanding research in inspiring presentations, among them the Science Breakthroughs of the Year our global jury picked from over 1.000 nominations. For the 14th time, “the brightest minds on the planet“ (BBC) will showcase their work.
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You can access all content from previous Science Summit editions on our online Content Library.
Discover all our articles and videos of previous Pitch sessions, Breakthrough Day presentations, talks and debates as well as our Winner videos and Summit Highlights online.
Select content by category and topic from more than 11 topics and themes.
We received a total of 1345 nominations.
Thank you for your great participation and congratulations to the finalists!
Find out who made it to the next round.
We look forward to welcoming the people who are finding solutions to the greatest challenges of our time, and thus contributing to a better world, back to Berlin on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
