Global Risks Forum 2025
Innovation Lab

Ecosystem

Our RRI within the MPM empowers independent members to identify, report, and co-develop solutions for complex, high-impact risk scenarios across sectors. Challenges are directly aligned with SDGs, which serve as a lifelong learning (LLL) framework within our Work-Integrated Learning Pathways (WILPs). Through active participation in NWGs and forming Competence Cells (CCells), members support QH issues by leveraging NE. Members advance from insight to action by engaging in structured stewardship programs, ecopreneurship accelerators, and high-impact hackathons. These initiatives build capacity to operationalize the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) within local, regional, and global contexts—ensuring scalable resilience, data-driven innovation, and inclusive development pathways

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Empowering Public Goods for Systems Innovation

To refresh our ideas of ownership and governance, we are designing and experimenting with new and remembered ways of working together, sharing resources, group decision making. We learn how to steward commons, resources, and people's power for sustainable development and resilience building

Mobilizing Innovation Commons
Empowering tools, capacities, and communities
Enabling Responsible Research
Building competence cells as popup/parallel R&D units
Designing Transformative Process
Turning epistemic design into public goods infrastructure
Integration Sustainable Solutions
Turning epistemic design into public goods infrastructure
Accelerating Systems Innovation
Tackling complex challenges through systems innovation

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Learning
Quests
Leveraging WILPs for Twin Digital-Green Transition
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Impact
Bounties
Integration Process Pathways for Tackling ESG Issues
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Innovation
Builds
Crowdsourcing CCells for Integrated Research & Innovation

Increasing Access To Financial Services And Markets

Increasing the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, particularly in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets.

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Sustainable Management And Use Of Natural Resources

Achieving the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

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Doubling The Productivity And Incomes Of Small-scale Food Producers

Doubling the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.

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Strong National And Regional Development Planning

Supporting positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning.

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Ending All Preventable Deaths Under 5 Years Of Age

Ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under‑5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births.

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