{"title": "Healthy Societies: Disease Prevention as the Default", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health"], "description": "“Healthy Societies: Disease Prevention as the Default” is a plenary table at the Falling Walls Science House, run by the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Science and Humanities Council. It takes on the fact that disease prevention delivers measurable health and economic gains yet remains commercially unattractive and structurally undervalued in systems that reward treatment and short-term returns. Incentives across policy, healthcare, and markets are misaligned, and making the healthy choice the default, in line with Wellbeing Economies, calls for new business models, targeted investment, and innovation systems linking science, industry, and society. On the panel are, among others, Graham Cookson (Office of Health Economics), Mariana Dyakova (WHO Collaborating Centre on Investment for Health and Well-being), Yik-Ying Teo (National University of Singapore) and Ásta Valdimarsdóttir (Ministry of Health of Iceland), chaired by Wolfgang Wick (German Science and Humanities Council).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/healthy-societies-disease-prevention-as-the-default-72400/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/healthy-societies-disease-prevention-default", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Future of Medicine: From Discovery to Impact", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine"], "description": "An English-language panel discussion in a hybrid format exploring how medicine's greatest challenge has shifted from making discoveries to turning them into better health. It is organised by the German Centers for Health Research (DZG) together with the Helmholtz Association and its centres, among them the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Max Delbrück Center (MDC). Speakers from science, politics and industry, including researchers from leading German and international institutions, discuss the research ecosystems that connect science, translation and innovation to speed the journey from discovery to impact. The talk forms part of the programme field Biomedical Innovation & Health Futures and links directly to a symposium later the same day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-future-of-medicine-from-discovery-to-impact-72401/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/future-medicine-discovery-impact", "image": ""}, {"title": "Building Trusted Ecosystems for Biomedical Innovation", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine", "society/health"], "description": "\"Building Trusted Ecosystems for Biomedical Innovation\" is a round table discussion in the Falling Walls programme. It is organised by the University of Oxford, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité and the Berlin University Alliance. It explores how innovation ecosystems connect academia, healthcare and industry to accelerate translation in biomedicine while ensuring responsible data use. Particular attention is given to transnational collaboration as a foundation for scalable and sustainable biomedical innovation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/building-trusted-ecosystems-for-biomedical-innovation-72413/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/building-trusted-ecosystems-biomedical-innovation", "image": ""}, {"title": "Die Zukunft der Gesundheit neu denken", "start": "2026-11-06T17:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/berlinscienceweek/2026-festival/5039347/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health"], "description": "A talk and discussion at Science on the Spree, an event series that brings science and politics into direct exchange. Springer Nature is behind it, guest at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as the festival centre of Berlin Science Week. The discussion asks how AI is changing relationships, trust and mental health, and what action politics and society should take. Leading researchers and political decision-makers examine what the scientific evidence shows about AI's effects and where public debate and research findings diverge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-zukunft-der-gesundheit-neu-denken-8352/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/science-on-the-spree-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "Zwischen Kantine, Couch und Kasse: Wie gesund ist unser Alltag?", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "VDOE", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 79, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.gruene-bundestag.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsanmeldung/fachbereich-2/ernaehrungskonfernz-26/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health"], "description": "\"Zwischen Kantine, Couch und Kasse: Wie gesund ist unser Alltag?\" is a congress on healthy everyday life. It is organised by the Greens' parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, bringing together the topics of nutrition, sport, health and digital matters. In various forums, participants will work out how politics can make healthy decisions easier in everyday life, whether at school, at the workplace or in the digital space. Registration is open already, and the programme is being expanded continuously.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-kantine-couch-und-kasse-wie-gesund-ist-unser-alltag-50219/", "official_url": "https://www.gruene-bundestag.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/zwischen-kantine-couch-und-kasse-wie-gesund-ist-unser-alltag/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1cd758fed11530993dc6a6c9a956754d381fb039753dc9d8ca9f423474305252-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vorankündigung: Landesgesundheitskonferenz", "start": "2026-11-05T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T13:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dach- und Fachverband der Berliner Selbsthilfekontaktstellen", "address": "Bismarckstraße 101, 10625 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health"], "description": "The 23rd Public State Health Conference focuses on health literacy under the motto „Zusammen.Kompetent.Gesund. Auf dem Weg zu einer Strategie für Berlin\" (Together. Competent. Healthy. On the way to a strategy for Berlin). Behind the event is the team of the Fachstelle at the Dach- und Fachverband der Berliner Selbsthilfekontaktstellen. Building on the successful previous state health conference, it aims to contribute to the planned state strategy for strengthening health and health system literacy. Attendance is free of charge, with the official invitation containing all details to follow in autumn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vorankundigung-landesgesundheitskonferenz-22171/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "When Therapies Don't Reach Patients", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A round-table session in hybrid format, with a livestream available, at the Falling Walls Science House. \"When Therapies Don't Reach Patients\" is shaped by Bayer, whose speakers join representatives of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and a Mexican institute. The discussion starts from a clinically proven, AI-enabled therapy that is ready for deployment but whose path to patients remains uncertain, as pricing, reimbursement and regulation challenge the translation of biomedical innovation into clinical practice. With US policy reshaping global incentives and China strengthening its biotech ecosystem, the speakers ask how Europe can keep turning scientific breakthroughs into patient benefit.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/when-therapies-dont-reach-patients-72408/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/when-therapies-dont-reach-patients", "image": ""}, {"title": "Dialogveranstaltung: „Diversitätsorientierte Medizin – aber WIE? Empowerment für Diversität - Von Praxisbeispielen zu nachhaltigen Veränderungen“", "start": "2026-11-09T17:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dach- und Fachverband der Berliner Selbsthilfekontaktstellen", "address": "Bismarckstraße 101, 10625 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health"], "description": "A dialogue event asking how diversity- and patient-oriented health care can be sustainably anchored in structures and in everyday clinical practice. It runs under the title „Diversitätsorientierte Medizin – aber WIE? Empowerment für Diversität - Von Praxisbeispielen zu nachhaltigen Veränderungen“. It is hosted by the Dach- und Fachverband der Berliner Selbsthilfekontaktstellen, which wants to bring together perspectives from health care, science, counselling, patients and communities. It features talks by Hürrem Tezcan-Güntekin (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin) on „Rassismen in der Gesundheitsversorgung (RiGeV) - Handlungsempfehlungen für stationäre Gesundheitseinrichtungen“ and by Desislava Dimitrova, Bahar Naghavi, Simone Prengel and Isabell Knispel (EMPDIV Steuerkreis Charité), followed by a get-together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dialogveranstaltung-diversitatsorientierte-medizin-aber-wie-40423/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Science Beyond SDGs: Power, Priorities, Progress", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "A round-table discussion within the Falling Walls programme under the title \"Science Beyond SDGs: Power, Priorities, Progress\". It is organised by Falling Walls with Elsevier and asks how a more distributed global research ecosystem, with rising contributions from the Global South, can sustain science beyond 2030. The discussion draws on the Beyond 2030 report and perspectives from the UN 10-Member Group. The speakers include Iris Blom, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Hauke Heekeren, Sherri Aldis and Stephen Toope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/science-beyond-sdgs-power-priorities-progress-72421/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/science-beyond-sdgs-power-priorities-progress", "image": ""}, {"title": "Science and Society: The Future Social Contract", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "\"Science and Society: The Future Social Contract\" is a discussion as part of the Impact Dialogues, held in English. It is organised by the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Science and Humanities Council. It explores how the social contract between science and society is evolving – from mission-oriented research and industrial partnerships to demands for academic freedom and bureaucratic constraints. Building on the German Council of Science and Humanities' 2040 perspective, speakers including Georg Schütte, Esther Seng, Lisa Herzog and Helge Braun discuss what it takes to make this contract operational across institutions, funding systems and governance structures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/science-and-society-the-future-social-contract-72469/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/science-and-society-future-social-contract", "image": ""}, {"title": "RNA Beyond Vaccines: New Frontiers in Medicine", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine"], "description": "A Round Table in the Falling Walls programme, held as a hybrid session in English. It is presented by the Verband der forschenden Pharmaunternehmen (vfa). The discussion looks at how RNA-based therapeutics beyond vaccination promise breakthroughs against cancer, cardiovascular, infectious and neurological diseases. The panel brings together researchers from Würzburg, Hannover and Michigan, a science journalist and a company CEO.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rna-beyond-vaccines-new-frontiers-in-medicine-72418/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/rna-beyond-vaccines-new-frontiers-medicine", "image": ""}, {"title": "Für immer fit im Kopf? Neue Möglichkeiten in der Alzheimer-Demenz-Behandlung – Was man dazu wissen sollte", "start": "2026-11-09T17:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Vivantes Humboldt-Klinikum", "address": "Am Nordgraben 2 13509 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health/dementia"], "description": "A talk on new possibilities in the treatment of Alzheimer's dementia and what one should know about it. The event is part of the seminar series \"Vorbeugen ist besser als Heilen\" (Preventing is better than curing), a series of health seminars in 2026 organized by the Psychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic for Gerontopsychiatry. The speaker is consultant physician Niklas Sauer of the Clinic for Gerontopsychiatry. After the talk, open questions can be discussed with the physicians, and attendance is possible without prior registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fur-immer-fit-im-kopf-neue-moglichkeiten-in-der-alzheimer-de-32525/", "official_url": "https://www.vivantes.de/unternehmen/media-events/veranstaltungen/detail/fuer-immer-fit-im-kopf-neue-moeglichkeiten-in-der-alzheimer-demenz-behandlung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5b1f9d1cd424198c661ba84a53a525881ff6e8711b9a5ba61d7c24374e484ad7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Africa–Europe: Investing in a Shared Scientific Future", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "place": "05 Einstein Pavilion", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy", "society"], "description": "A programme of talks and discussion sessions on scientific cooperation between Africa and Europe, covering AI, shared research infrastructure, resilient health, food and water systems, and innovation hotspots. It is organised by the Falling Walls Foundation together with The African Academy of Sciences, and moderated by Oliver Günther, President of the University of Potsdam. Speakers include Kingsley Tochukwu Udeh, Nigerian Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, and Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The discussions focus on investment in people, institutions and enterprises for reciprocal cooperation grounded in African priorities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/africaeurope-investing-in-a-shared-scientific-future-72468/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/africa-europe-investing-shared-scientific-future", "image": ""}, {"title": "From Science to Impact: A Shared Responsibility", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "\"From Science to Impact: A Shared Responsibility\" is an English-language round table discussion in hybrid format on the Franklin Stage at the Falling Walls Science House. The round table is behind organized by Springer Nature; the speakers are Angela McLean (UK Government), David Budtz Pedersen (FRONTIER Centre for Advanced SSH), Jeanne Rubner (Technical University of Munich), Magdalena Skipper (Springer Nature) and Eleni Zika (European Research Council). It explores how validated scientific evidence becomes actionable in decision-making when incentives, funding, communication, industry and policy align. The discussion examines a shared responsibility for strengthening relevance while safeguarding inclusivity, equity and scientific freedom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/from-science-to-impact-a-shared-responsibility-72407/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/science-impact-shared-responsibility", "image": ""}, {"title": "ZEIT FORUM Gesundheit: Gesund oder krank? Wenn Gesundes Essen zur Essstörung wird", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health"], "description": "The ZEIT FORUM Gesundheit is a panel talk about when health-conscious eating tips into an eating disorder. Organized by the ZEIT publishing house in cooperation with the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, it asks how social media like TikTok, YouTube or Instagram shape eating habits and body image, and what society, media and health care can do to prevent eating disorders. Speaking on stage are Sophia Thiel, Prof. Katharina Timper and Prof. Stephan Zipfel, moderated by DIE ZEIT health editor Nora Burgard-Arp. Admission is free of charge; registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeit-forum-gesundheit-gesund-oder-krank-wenn-gesundes-essen-4415/", "official_url": "https://verlag.zeit.de/veranstaltungen/ausblick/zeit-veranstaltungen/zeit-forum-gesundheit-am-12-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/952cda0d768ed95267374ee97205ead47eeee26e988c403abc6baabfcb095987-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Innovative Funding: Foundations Driving European Research", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "An English-language round-table discussion on innovative funding models for European research. It is hosted by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller as part of Falling Walls. It asks whether greater collaboration between private, national and international funders could open up new opportunities for researchers. Drawing on lessons from Impulscience, it explores how such models could strengthen research ecosystems across Europe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/innovative-funding-foundations-driving-european-research-72424/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/innovative-funding-foundations-driving-european-research", "image": ""}, {"title": "Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "„Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies“ is an English-language discussion held as a round table on the „03 Franklin Stage“ at Falling Walls Science House. It is organised by Falling Walls with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich involved, and takes place as a hybrid format. The panel brings together physics Nobel laureate Brian P. Schmidt, former Portuguese minister Manuel Heitor, LMU vice president Armin Nassehi, former European Research Council president Helga Nowotny and Yoshua Bengio of LawZero. They ask why even stable democracies can erode from within and look at the social, economic, cultural and technological foundations of open societies in times of rapid change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies-72414/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies", "image": ""}]}