The Prototypes for Humanity Short Papers Platform, launched in 2025, offers professors a unique forum to disseminate research on urgent themes from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, while fostering dialogue, knowledge exchange, and new collaboration opportunities across academia and industry.
This volume presents the proceedings of the 2025 Short Papers Platform and showcases 56 short papers addressing global and local research priorities across key themes, including health and wellbeing, environmental sustainability and climate action, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence, socio-economic empowerment and innovation, and open and speculative themes that examine emerging and future-oriented challenges and solutions.
The collection advances Prototypes for Humanity’s mission to translate academic research into impactful solutions. Each chapter offers insights and innovations with tangible, real-world impact and clear relevance for researchers, practitioners, industry leaders, and policymakers. These short papers, alongside future editions and Prototypes for Humanity’s wider programmes for global academia, will contribute to building a body of knowledge that is accessible, purposeful, useful, and an important point of reference for all stakeholders of the global research-led innovation ecosystem.