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

Future Innovation Labs

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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

Preventing Agricultural Trade Restrictions, Market Distortions And Export Subsidies

Correcting and preventing trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round.

5 Steps

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.

5 Steps

Supporting Small Scale Fishers

Providing access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets.

8 Steps
  • Complete Onboarding Process
  • Join Life Below Water
  • Complete the course Ecopreneurship
  • Complete the course Environmental Risks
  • Complete the course Financial Risks
  • Join Seminars
  • Join Hackathons
  • Nominate someone for CoI Level I

Conserving Coastal And Marine Areas

Conserving at least 10 percent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information.

8 Steps
  • Complete Onboarding Process
  • Join Life Below Water
  • Complete the course Ecopreneurship
  • Complete the course Environmental Risks
  • Complete the course Systemic Risks
  • Join Seminars
  • Join Hackathons
  • Get nominated for CoI Level I

Integrating Climate Change Measures Into Policies And Planning

Integrating climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

9 Steps
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