Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand 2025

Twenty-one participants from around Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific Island Nations will pitch their innovative breakthrough ideas.

Coming from as far away as Fiji, participants will have the opportunity to showcase their innovative research, scientific idea, or evidence-based initiative, and how it could make a difference for society in a three-minute presentation.

The winning pitch will have the chance to represent the region and compete at the Falling Walls Lab Global Finale in Berlin.

This year’s pitches are Breaking the Walls of:
- Unsustainable Dairy
- Calcium Deficiency
- Disability Isolation
- Bias in AI
- Land-bound Health Systems
- Discomfort in VR
- Profit-Driven Gambling
- Setting Carbon Budgets
- Nature for All
- Carbon-Intensive Concrete
- Safer Cannabinoid Drugs
- Coastal Climate Risks
- Chronic Pain
- Housing-Related Illness
- Legal Inaccessibility
- Symbolic Green Financing
- Hydrogen Storage
- Gut Contractions
- Circular (De)Construction
- Biodegradable Bioplastics
- Career Centrality

Find out about this year’s participants and their topics: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/announcing-2025-falling-walls-lab-aotearoa-new-zealand/
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