Nexus Accelerators
Systems Innovation
Systems Innovation Programs address Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus challenges by fostering collaborative efforts between young professionals and seasoned experts for systemic change. The Young Innovators Program empowers recent graduates and early-career researchers through mentorship from experienced leaders, while the Seasoned Experts Initiative engages senior professionals with younger mentors to incorporate cutting-edge technologies. Systems Innovation Labs bring together cross-generational teams to co-create holistic solutions, and Community Resilience Builders support grassroots projects with grants and capacity-building workshops. Collaborative Hackathons unite diverse teams to solve WEF challenges in dynamic, interactive settings, culminating in a final demo day where participants present their solutions, attract investment, and form cross-sector partnerships. These programs provide mentorship, resources, and collaborative opportunities, blending fresh perspectives with seasoned expertise to drive systemic innovation, enhance community resilience, and promote sustainable development for a resilient and equitable future
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CAREER
Collaboration
Dive into Systems Innovation Programs: a blend of open collaboration and diverse stakeholder involvement. We champion transparent problem-solving, ensuring holistic, impactful innovations in our interconnected world.
Assessment
Navigate complexities with our integrated impact assessments. From global risk analytics to scenario evaluations, we transform challenges into opportunities, ensuring sustainable outcomes across dimensions.
Education
Embrace continuous learning with tailored pathways. Our sustainable competency frameworks and adaptive platforms equip participants with cutting-edge knowledge, fostering a culture of innovation and growth.
Engagement
Connect deeply with communities and stakeholders. Our participatory research and dialogue sessions prioritize local insights, ensuring solutions are community-centric and globally informed.
Integration
Harness digital transformation’s power. Our civic tech initiatives and data-driven insights merge technology with systemic change, driving transparency, collaboration, and enhanced civic engagement.
Resilience
Build on ethical, resilient foundations. Our design principles prioritize justice and equity, while resilience-building workshops equip communities to thrive amidst challenges, ensuring lasting impact.
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.
Explore Concepts
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