Royal Society Te Apārangi · NZ · nz-te-aparangi

Falling Walls Lab

Falling Walls Lab is a competition for students and early-career professionals to pitch a breakthrough idea in three minutes. The Aotearoa New Zealand event selects up to 20 New Zealand-based and two Pacific Island Forum nation-based finalists to compete in Wellington, with the winner traveling to the Falling Walls Lab Global Finale in Berlin.

Deadline 2026-04-08

Official page ↗

Data last verified 2026-08-14 · sources & verification

Eligibility

Structured dimensions read from the official page. What do these mean? ↗

Career stage

Student, Early Career

Applicant type

Individual

Residency

NZ, PF

Host country

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Years since PhD

≤ 5

Minimum qualification

None

Consortium

Not required

Evidence: every dimension above is read from this scheme's official page — official page ↗.

Full eligibility text

Applicants must reside in New Zealand or a Pacific Island Forum nation (excluding Australia), be 18 or older, hold a passport valid until at least May 2027, and not have previously presented at Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand. They must also be currently enrolled in tertiary education or have received a Bachelor's degree within 10 years, a Master's within 7 years, or a PhD within 5 years (with parental leave extensions).

Deadline

2026-04-08

Application form effort

1 form file(s) downloaded; 5 explicit questions; 10 writing prompts; 55 fields/sections; heavy — expect a full proposal pack

Marsden Fund 2026 guidelines (webdev mirror — main site is Cloudflare-gated) (37 pages)

Sample questions

their own point of view. Could the association be perceived as a conflict of interest?
Does the decision (yes/no to relevance) seem appropriate?
capability development?
that budget for Māori involvement, capability development and consultation?
How do I decide whether to include a Vision Mātauranga statement in my proposal?

Application form preview sample questions, page & word limits from the application form Back to browse

Data sources & verification (for research-office review)

Where each item on this page was read from, so every claim can be verified against the original. Several values often come from the same official page — that page is named in the Source column. Anything we could not reach or parse is listed under Not captured / obstacles below.

Curated item	Value in this record	Source
Funding agency	Royal Society Te Apārangi	www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Country / funding source	NZ · nz-te-aparangi	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Deadline	2026-04-08 — LLM-checked against the archived official page	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Funding amount	Not stated on the official page	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Eligibility	8 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Official opportunity page ↗
Application form: Marsden Fund 2026 guidelines (webdev mirror — main site is Cloudflare-gated) — download ↗ (37 pp)

Not captured / obstacles

Data is collected from official funder pages only. Figures are machine-curated (rule + LLM where noted) and should be re-verified on the linked source before use.