Global Risks Forum 2025
Innovation Lab

Ecosystem

Empowering our 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

Increasing Scientific Knowledge, Research And Technology For Ocean Health

Increasing scientific knowledge, developing research capacity and transferring marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries.

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

Increasing The Number Of People With Relevant Skills For Financial Success

Substantially increasing the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

9 Steps

Substantially Reducing Corruption And Bribery

Substantially reducing corruption and bribery in all their forms.

7 Steps
  • Complete Onboarding Process
  • Join Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • Complete the course Systemic Risks
  • Complete the course Political Risks
  • Join Seminars
  • Join Hackathons
  • Get nominated for CoI Level I

Strengthening The Participation In Global Governance

Broadening and strengthening the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.

7 Steps
  • Complete Onboarding Process
  • Join Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • Complete the course Systemic Risks
  • Complete the course Public Risks 1 time
  • Join Seminars
  • Join Hackathons
  • Get nominated for CoI Level I

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
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