The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute, a global non-profit 
foundation with one agenda: Impact on Humanity, has today announced projects 
with world-class universities and academic publisher Springer Nature to make an 
impact on humanity. 

The FII Institute has partnered with world-class universities Mohammed VI 
Polytechnic University, HEC-Paris and leading science journal Nature. It has 
also pledged significant support to clean energy research being undertaken at 
Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy.

The announcements came during the second day of the FII 5th Anniversary taking 
place in the Riyadh this week. As a global nonprofit foundation, these 
relationships will support the work of the FII Institute to make an impact in 
five areas: AI, Robotics, Education, Healthcare, and Sustainability. 

FII Institute CEO Richard Attias said the institute is delighted to welcome the 
latest group of academics to the THINK pillar of the FII Institute. 

"The academic quality of these institutions reinforces the FII Institute's 
mandate to be a truly global catalyst for change.  We are proud to have secured 
such high-profile educational agreements that will cover a hugely diverse range 
of research from ways to achieve zero net carbon goals to harnessing the power 
of AI and new research into the concepts behind the circular economy, which 
will make an impact on humanity."

Discussions, debates and presentations at the current FII revolve around 
investments that will create the greatest benefits for humanity, as multiple 
sectors witness a renaissance in the post-COVID era. The platform brings 
together world leaders, experts, innovators, and media in a global forum to 
explore pioneering solutions addressing society's challenges and propel action 
towards their realization. 

President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Hicham El Habti 
said he is "looking forward to seeing UM6P and FII continuing to join efforts 
towards making an impact through daring, experimenting and disrupting. I am 
confident that this collaboration will allow us to achieve the mutual goals of 
being impact generators through innovative research, capability building, 
education and investing in and for the future."

Dean of HEC-Paris in Qatar, Pablo Martin de Holan said "We are delighted to 
work with FII to advance understanding of how to reconcile business models with 
the circular economy.  HEC Paris is committed to creating actionable knowledge 
that will contribute to the solution of the global challenges of our time and 
help train the women and men who will lead the massive transformations that are 
required for a better, more sustainable, and more just world for us and future."

Director of Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor of Materials 
Science and Engineering, Yi Cui, said he was grateful for the generous support 
from the FII Institute and the contribution to the clean energy research at 
Stanford.

Chief Publishing and Solutions Officer of Springer Nature, Steven Inchcoombe, 
said: "through this partnership we aim to provide the research community and 
key decision makers with information they can use to accelerate solutions to 
key societal challenges."

About FII Institute  

FII Institute is a global nonprofit foundation with an investment arm and one 
agenda: Impact on Humanity. Committed to ESG principles, we foster the 
brightest minds and transform ideas into real-world solutions in five focus 
areas: AI and Robotics, Education, Healthcare and Sustainability.  

We are in the right place at the right time – when decision makers, investors 
and an engaged generation of youth come together in aspiration, energized and 
ready for change. We harness that energy into three pillars – THINK, XCHANGE, 
ACT – and invest in the innovations that make a difference globally. 

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SOURCE: FII Institute