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

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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Safe And Affordable Drinking Water

Achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.

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Reducing Ocean Acidification

Minimizing and addressing the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.

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

Expanding Water And Sanitation Support To Developing Countries

Expanding international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies.

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Increasing The Economic Benefits From the Sustainable Use Of Marine Resources

Increasing the economic benefits to small island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism.

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
  • Get nominated for CoI Level I
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