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Falling Walls Lab Kathmandu 2025
Call for Applications
Falling Walls Lab Kathmandu 2025
Please note that A and B below are the two necessary components for your application to be complete:
A. Video
Making the video
- You need to create a 2 to 3 minute video stating and explaining the problem as well as your solution.
- The aim of the video is to help the evaluators understand the problem and the solution clearly.
- It is important that they see and hear the applicant speak.
- No complex editing or professional film is required. It can be a simple video shot with a smartphone or a camera.
- As far as possible only the applicant should be seen in the video. If others are helping with the instrument, holding something etc., that is acceptable.
- While there can be animations in the film, a completely animated film will not be accepted
- There should be no voice-over/another person speaking on behalf of the applicant/machine voice.
Hosting and sharing the video
- Host the video on any platform (ex. YouTube, Vimeo etc.) or on any cloud server (ex. Google Drive, Dropbox etc.). Do make sure that the video remains available there till the results are announced. You will need to use the link to the video in your application form.
- The focus is on the concept and communication. The video will be used only for shortlisting and will not be shared with anybody except with the express consent of the applicant.
B. Online Application
- Fill up the online application form, remember to include the link to your video in it, and apply.
- Link for application: https: falling-walls.com/falling-walls-lab-kathmandu
Your application is complete only when you do complete both, Step A and Step B.
Application Deadline: 9 April 2025
Falling Walls Lab Kathmandu: 8 May 2025
In case of questions contact fwl.in@daad.de
Team DAAD and Kathmandu University look forward to your applications!
Falling Walls Lab Kathmandu 2024
Falling Walls Lab Kathmandu 2024 successfully completed!
And the winner was Frienson Pradhan, a bachelors student breaking the wall of pestilence!
Winner Frienson Pradhan with the Dy. Ambassador of the German Embassy in Kathmandu Dr Russek and Vice Chancellor of Kathmandu University Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa
Winner Frienson Pradhan, Kathmandu University
Breaking the Wall of Pestilence: From Invasive Weed to Eco-Friendly Mosquito Control
Winner in 2nd Place: Anjana Tamang, Tribhuvan University
Breaking the Wall of High Cost Fiber Machine
Winner in 3rd Place: Gaurav Adhikari, Tribhuvan University
Breaking the Wall of Food Security
Audience Choice Winner: Anup Godar, Kathmandu University
Breaking the Wall of LEO Experiment & Research
Team DAAD also conducted information sessions at Tribhuvan University and the Goethe-Zentrum, and connected with the team of NEGAAS..
The DAAD New Delhi offers a number of funding schemes or scholarship programmes for Nepal and Bhutan:
You’d like to study in Germany? Or even in India at the IIT Delhi? A great idea!
The DAAD looks forward to welcoming you!
You may want to consider the following scholarships:
- Postgraduate Studies in the Field of Music
- Postgraduate Studies in the Field of the Performing Arts
- Postgraduate Studies in the Field of Architecture
- Postgraduate Studies in the Fields of Fine Art, Design, Visual Communication and Film
- Doctoral Programmes
- Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees
- In-region Master and PhD Scholarships
- Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS)
- Public Policy and Good Governance (PPGG)
- Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP)
For information about other scholarships, please visit www.funding-guide.de
Students and scholars as well as academic and research institutions in Nepal are welcome to get in touch with the New Delhi office for information about study and research in Germany, funding possibilities and cooperation with German institutions for higher education and research.
DAAD Young Ambassadors in Nepal
- Rumi Singh Maharjan
Master – Architecture
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
Scholarship: DAAD Scholarship for Architecture - Sheila Dangol
Master – Water Resources and Environmental Management
Leibniz University Hannover
Scholarship: DAAD EPOS
