Global Risks Forum 2025
Nexus Accelerators

Social Enterprise

Social Enterprise Programs empower social entrepreneurs, community leaders, and young professionals to address Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus challenges through innovative, sustainable solutions. Key initiatives include the Nexus Social Innovators Program, Community Resilience Builders, Sustainable Development Fellows, Impact Accelerator, and Collaborative Innovation Labs. Participants gain access to incubation support, mentorship, funding, and specialized training, fostering community-driven projects that enhance resilience and sustainable development. The programs offer comprehensive support, from pilot project implementation to strategic guidance for scaling operations, ensuring measurable social and environmental impact. Annual hackathons and a final demo day provide platforms for showcasing solutions, attracting investors, and facilitating cross-sector partnerships. By promoting multidisciplinary collaboration and providing the necessary resources for growth, Nexus Accelerator drives systemic change, building a robust ecosystem dedicated to solving global WEF challenges and fostering long-term sustainability

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Collaboration
Delve into Social Enterprise Programs: a synergy of entrepreneurial spirit and social impact goals. We advocate for transparent value creation, ensuring sustainable, purpose-driven innovations in our global community.
Assessment
Chart the intricacies of social entrepreneurship with our comprehensive impact evaluations. From social return on investment (SROI) metrics to stakeholder feedback, we metamorphose societal challenges into opportunities for meaningful change, ensuring impactful outcomes that resonate across communities.
Education
Champion continuous growth with bespoke social enterprise learning tracks. Our modular social business frameworks and immersive platforms empower participants with the latest in social entrepreneurship techniques, cultivating a culture of purposeful innovation and societal betterment.
Engagement
Forge profound connections with communities and social impact investors. Our stakeholder workshops and community-driven research sessions emphasize the collective responsibility of social entrepreneurship, ensuring solutions are both locally impactful and globally scalable.
Integration
Leverage the capabilities of modern social enterprise tools. Our social business platforms and impact measurement systems intertwine technology with social entrepreneurship, promoting real-time impact tracking, collaborative solution-building, and enhanced stakeholder engagement.
Resilience
Construct on principles of sustainability and ethical business practices. Our foundational guidelines emphasize social responsibility and ethical decision-making, while resilience-building strategies prepare social enterprises to navigate market uncertainties, ensuring sustained impact and organizational growth.

Work-Integrated Learning Paths

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.
Accelerating Systems Innovation
Tackling complex challenges through systems innovation.
Innovation Lab
Discover;
Learn;
Build;

We support innovation, collaboration and knowledge-sharing amongst our members, partners and the broader research, development, and education communities. Our WILPs streamline the identification, mitigation, and evaluation of Risks, followed by the optimal use of GRIx to tackle Issues and manage adverse impacts. They provide secure network platforms that enable citizens to participate in MPM, and use iVRS to report risks and values anywhere. Risk Pathways deliver out-of-the-box CRS functionality to meet institutional requirements, including SCF taxonomies for digital-green skills, compliance frameworks and real-time validation systems. They help members and QH stakeholders with DICE to navigate essential resources and find the right levers across the public-private-planet landscape. 

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Features
MPM
Integrated pathways for existing national portfolios on the right to inclusive education, skills development, and career mobility through LLL for all
CRS
Rewarding participation with utility value across the network to increase interoperability and career mobility
DICE
Next-generation of internet for risk and innovation in pluralistic societies
GRIx
Open source standard indexing system for linked open data set about global risk and humanitarian crisis.
iVRS
Stakeholder engagement and reporting mechanism for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks and impacts
SCF
Frameworks, skills taxonomies, competencies and policies for the twin digital-green transition
Application

Get accepted in programs and activate your ILA

Academy

Register on network platforms and start WILPs with CRS

inLab

Join CCells and co-create solutions with iVRS

Hackathons

Participate in hackathons with your PoC and CoI

Campaigns

Run crowdfunding and awareness campaigns with DICE

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