How Nexus Consortium works
Nexus Consortiums organise institutions, leaders, experts and national priorities into one accountable programme. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) serves it as Consortium Secretariat, alongside The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Nexus Foundry is operated at national and regional level by Nexus Consortiums through their host and lead organizations, within a multilateral programme led by these three pillar not-for-profit institutions on a public-private-planet partnership. This page explains how the parts fit: national ownership, regional cooperation, the global programme and the authority boundaries between them. Start from the GCRI home page for the wider institution.
- Institution
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
Country programme console
How Nexus Consortium works · Country programme A · Month 2
Programme
- Formationdossier
- National Deskstaffed
- National Modelbuild
- Portfoliooptions
- Annual missiontest
- Reportedition
System coupling
dependency strength, 0 to 100
Placeholder strengths a National Model replaces with estimates.
Evidence ledger
| Reservoir storage | OBSERVED | National Desk |
| Hydropower output | MODELLED | Technical office |
| Grid stress | SCENARIO | Technical office |
| Hospital continuity | ESTIMATED | Health ministry |
GCRI · Country programme consoleCountry programme console, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The short answer.
Nexus Consortiums are the organizing architecture that brings institutions, leaders, experts and national priorities into one accountable programme at global, regional and national level. GCRI serves as Consortium Secretariat alongside GRF and GRA; the consortiums are not one legal person or membership club, and each level keeps its own authority.
Systemic exposure in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for the United Kingdom and Ireland as an example geography for this subject.
Three levels, one programme, separate authority.
Nexus Consortiums are an organizing architecture, not one legal person or one membership club. Each level does work the others cannot, and none of them overrides a competent national authority.
National Nexus
The complete country programme: a National Desk, a National Model, a National Portfolio and three participation pillars. National structures keep their own agenda, data and decision rights. See National Nexus.
Six programme regions
Regions compare compatible evidence about shared basins, grids, corridors and health systems. Fifteen planned hubs are coordination roles, never offices. See the six regions.
Global programme
Shared research priorities, methods, the annual cycle and the publication programme, coordinated by the Secretariat. See the global programme.
Five functions that work as one loop.
| Function | What it does | What remains after each year |
|---|---|---|
| Institutional cooperation | Nexus Consortiums organise institutions, leaders, experts, national priorities and cooperation into an accountable agenda. | Relationships, mandates, capability maps, programme ownership and continuity. |
| Operating platform | Nexus Foundry sustains projects, data, models, maps, analysis and evidence throughout the year. | Reusable working environments and governed records in twenty systems. |
| Annual resilience programme | Nexus Universe concentrates the year through preparation, integration, controlled action and learning. | Tested findings, improvement requirements and renewed priorities. |
| Shared computing | The annual Nexus Network brings qualified computing, networks and technical teams together each year. | Federated capability, trained teams, methods and retained evidence. |
| Reports and evidence | Nexus Reports publishes quarterly, annual and specialist analysis from versioned evidence. | Citable, inspectable and correctable knowledge. |
The pillar institutions lead different parts of this loop. Their mandates and legal independence are set out on GCRI, GRF and GRA.
Public, private and planetary interests at one table, with limits.
Governments, operators, researchers, civil society, communities and financial institutions take part on stated terms. The public-private-planet doctrine explains how participation is kept from becoming capture: no contribution decides a technical conclusion, a public authority or a procurement outcome, and official cooperation never depends on buying a membership tier.
- Institutions take part through the National Nexus Consortium (NNC) and its constituency councils.
- Individual leaders take part in personal capacity through the National Leadership Council (NLC).
- Experts, practitioners, students and volunteers do supervised work in the National Working Groups (NWG).
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| National Nexus Consortium | In the Consortium's national model, the body through which a country's institutions take part in Nexus work, formed under a national record with its own leadership and working groups. |
| Public-private-planet | The Consortium's term for cooperation that brings public institutions, private actors and the condition of natural systems into the same decision, so that costs to nature are counted. |
| Multi-level governance | Shared decision-making across local, regional, national and international levels of government. |
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
What exists today, stated plainly.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. Enquiries go to the Secretariat and to the regional and country desks and receive a reference. Every region is recorded as in formation, and no national programme is listed as an active programme until a record shows it. Programme status sets out the states a programme moves through, and Countries and research profiles explains why a country page is not a constituted consortium.
Pages in How Nexus Consortium works.
Questions and answers.
Who leads Nexus Consortiums?
Is Nexus a government body?
Does a country page mean a consortium exists there?
How do I start?
Around GCRI.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.