Work with GCRI on the risks that matter to you.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) has a route for each kind of contributor: governments, international institutions, universities, operators, technology providers, civil society, experts and students. Institutions, leaders and experts take part in national programmes through three separate pathways, and every first step is an enquiry that receives a reference.
- 01Routes by audience08
- 02Pathways into a programmeNNC · NLC · NWG
- 03A national programmeFour stages
- 04What is open nowR0 to R5
- 05What an enquiry createsA reference
No fee schedule published · no fee for working groups
The short answer.
Working with GCRI means taking part through a defined route for your kind of institution: governments and public institutions, universities, operators and industry, technology providers, communities and civil society, or experts and students. Each route starts with an enquiry that receives a reference, and none creates membership, a contract or an assignment by itself.
Start from who you are and what you need.
Choose who you are. Each route names its first useful outcome, the boundary that applies and the address that handles it; the acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Request a country-scoping dialogue
A scoping dialogue tests whether a national programme would answer the questions that matter to your country, and who holds authority over them.
- First outcome
- A scoping note, an authority map, a first-quarter baseline plan and a decision on whether to proceed
- Boundary
- Regulator participation confers no approval or privileged access
- Write to
- contact@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Propose programme cooperation
Cooperation runs through your own instruments, with roles, results and data rights agreed before the work starts.
- First outcome
- A concept note, a results and evidence plan, roles, and a data and rights schedule
- Boundary
- Participation creates no endorsement; a readiness record is not a loan, grant or procurement decision
- Write to
- partnerships@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Propose research or independent review
Research collaborations and independent reviews are agreed on a protocol that keeps negative findings publishable.
- First outcome
- A research protocol, contribution and rights terms, and a publication route
- Boundary
- Research terms keep negative findings and independent scrutiny possible
- Write to
- research@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Submit an operationally grounded mission
A mission starts from a dependency your operation actually faces, such as a substation, a port or a supplier.
- First outcome
- A dependency study, a controlled test design, options with their limits and a handoff to the operator
- Boundary
- Membership gives no access to production systems. Competitors' confidential information is not exchanged, under a written competition policy that counsel reviews before membership opens
- Write to
- contact@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Respond to a testbed call or offer resources
Technology is tested against a stated evaluation plan; offered capacity is qualified before anyone counts on it.
- First outcome
- A documented selection decision and evaluation plan, or a qualification record for offered capacity
- Boundary
- Testing is not accreditation, and offered capacity is not counted as allocated
- Write to
- partnerships@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Contribute challenge, local knowledge or a concern
Local knowledge and challenge improve the evidence. Corrections to public information can also go to integrity@therisk.global.
- First outcome
- An acknowledgement and a reasoned response or disposition
- Boundary
- No membership or account is needed to report harm or correct public information
- Write to
- contact@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Find a bounded assignment or review role
Assignments follow competence, with review criteria and a record of what you contributed.
- First outcome
- A scoped assignment, review criteria and a contribution record
- Boundary
- A reviewer with a declared conflict does not sign the relevant acceptance
- Write to
- experts@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Explore supervised learning and contribution
Students, early-career researchers and volunteers learn on safe tasks with a mentor.
- First outcome
- A safe task, a mentor, a learning plan and a record of your contribution
- Boundary
- No fee for ordinary participation and no unsupervised high-consequence work
- Write to
- experts@therisk.global
The message opens in your email with a short brief. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
The offers behind these routes, with their terms, are on GCRI programmes and services. Financial institutions start with membership at The Global Risks Alliance (GRA).
Three pathways into a national programme.
Each National Nexus programme has three pillars of participation. They are not interchangeable kinds of membership: each has a different member, a different selection route and different limits.
National Nexus Consortium (NNC)
The institution is the member. It brings authorized representatives, a contribution plan and capability, including through the constituency councils.
- Institutional enquiry
- Due diligence and authority check
- Contribution plan
- Terms for the programme
National Leadership Council (NLC)
The selected individual is the member, in a personal capacity, in the Leadership Council and the national leadership councils. The first year is designed around a leadership baseline, a contribution plan, quarterly work and a Year-One Gateway.
- Application or nomination
- Fit-and-proper and conflict review
- Invitation and terms
- Year-One Gateway
National Working Groups (NWG)
The working groups, where assignments follow competence. Experts, practitioners, students and volunteers take on bounded, supervised work with prerequisites, review points and closure criteria.
- Current work calls
- Competence and availability
- Supervised assignment
- Contribution record
| Pathway | Who is the member | What it does not create |
|---|---|---|
| NNC | The institution | A Council seat, or influence over a technical conclusion, public authority or procurement |
| NLC | The selected person, in a personal capacity | Office, employment, a Board seat or access to restricted data; selection precedes any payment |
| NWG | Assignments by competence | A fee for ordinary participation; paid work and fellowships are separate arrangements |
Leaders and institutions can also see how The Global Risks Forum (GRF) convenes participation.
From a first enquiry to a national decision.
A national programme is nationally owned. It starts with an exploration led by an accountable national contact, and it may or may not lead to formation. Write to the Secretariat or to the desk for your region, listed on Contact GCRI; countries under the platform's sanctions and eligibility policy have no desk.
- 01
Exploration
An accountable contact, the jurisdiction, the questions that matter and the limits of the enquiry. Open for enquiries now.
- 02
Scoping
A scoping note, an authority map and a first-quarter baseline plan.
- 03
Formation dossier
The ownership model, host options, first risk questions, safeguards, resources and exit conditions.
- 04
Constitution
The competent national authority decides whether to constitute the programme. GCRI does not take that decision.
Fig.A computational graph of the Nexus cycle: nodes with their type, metrics and state, connectors for what feeds what, the owners as groups, the year as a run timeline. Design, not a record of a run.
Information and enquiries are open. The rest opens in stages.
Services open one level at a time, and only when the team, the terms and the review capacity for that level are in place. Today the programme is at R0.
| Level | What it means | State |
|---|---|---|
| R0 · Information and enquiries | You can understand the programme and send an enquiry, which receives a reference | Open now |
| R1 · Enquiry queue | A staffed queue issues a durable receipt for every relevant question | Not yet open |
| R2 · Application | Formal candidates apply for a defined pathway with current terms and an appeal route | Not yet open |
| R3 · Commitment | An accepted participant signs an agreement with the correct parties and scope | Not yet open |
| R4 · Operation | Authorized users undertake the scoped service, workload or exercise | Not yet open |
| R5 · Public release | Evidence or status is released with independent release authority | Not yet open |
An enquiry gets a reference. It is not membership.
Each step of participation is separate, and none implies the next. These distinctions protect participants as much as the programme.
| This | Is not |
|---|---|
| An enquiry | Membership, an appointment or a service contract |
| A submitted application | Acceptance or membership |
| A claimed identity | Authority to represent an institution |
| A payment | An appointment or access to restricted data |
| An infrastructure offer | An allocation |
| A country research profile | A constituted national programme or local office |
| A planned hub | An operational site |
| Readiness evidence | A financing or underwriting decision |
Questions about how decisions, conflicts and complaints are handled are answered on Trust and integrity. Finance and development readiness is led by GRA; see finance readiness at GRA.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this institution uses it on this page.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| National Nexus Consortium (NNC) | The institutional pathway of a national programme, in which the institution is the member, including through the constituency councils. |
| National Leadership Council (NLC) | The pathway for individual leaders, selected and taking part in a personal capacity; selection precedes any payment. |
| National Working Groups (NWG) | The pathway for experts, practitioners, students and volunteers, who take bounded, supervised assignments by competence and pay no fee. |
| Service level R0 | The current level of service: information and enquiries. Applications, payments and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist. |
Questions about working with GCRI.
Do governments or UN agencies need to buy membership?
Is there a membership fee?
What is the difference between the NNC, NLC and NWG?
Can I apply online today?
My country has no national programme. Can it start one?
Can I raise a concern without being a member?
More ways into GCRI and the programme.
Tell us who you are and what you need.
The Secretariat confirms the right route and the conditions for any further step. An enquiry receives a reference; it does not create membership, an appointment or a service contract.