A Pro-to-Pro Boot Camp Dedicated to Impact – Program of the 17th Geneva Forum

The 2025 edition of the Geneva Forum (Model 3.0) supports the urgent need for a profound transformation of practices and marks a decisive turning point: the structuring and global scaling of interdisciplinary impact projects.

Beyond the question of the financial volumes that this level of projects can mobilize (from 500 million to 1 billion by multi stakeholders structural project), the Geneva Forum remains true to its mission of being a space for schematic innovation and co-construction of partnerships, where ideas, disciplines, and actors come together in projects capable of addressing the complexity of today’s challenges.

This year, the Forum will therefore place emphasis on the development of transversal projects that break through the silos of International Geneva and strengthen the funding capacities of NGOs, international organizations, and UN agencies to ensure their sustainability in the medium term.

In the face of the great challenges of our time, the objective is clear: to create a new dynamic of cooperation and financing, based on measurable, sustainable, and high-impact models of action, and to make International Geneva the place where actions for Peace and Sustainable Development are universally designed and driven.

When entrepreneurship and international solidarity meet finance and public-private partnerships.

"Impact Projects: Making the UN, International Organizations, and NGOs Legible for Impact Finance. Joint Business Opportunities."
17th Geneva Forum,
from December 8 to 12, 2025, at the United Nations and across Geneva.

The week will be dedicated to scaling and developing impact projects at the global level. Half-day by half-day, participating partners will be able to integrate their respective activities into responsible business consortiums, which may subsequently benefit from impact financing. The various project portfolios defined during Forum week will be subject to fundraising efforts beginning in the first half of 2026.

Monday, December 8, 2025

Inaugural day and launch of the week.

UN, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Room XII ↗ (Reservation required, please create your user account on this website - see burger menu)

Monday Morning:
Funding international organizations through transversal impact projects targeting impact finance.

Monday Afternoon:
Criteria for sizing impact projects to make them eligible for impact finance; dry run of the AGILE tool.

Monday Evening:
First networking dinner (Downtown Geneva)
Information will be sent to registered participants.

(Detailed Monday Program, Schedule, Registration, and Calls for Contributions) ↗

This first day will establish the shared language and methodology for the entire Forum week. Tuesday’s business workshop, dedicated to defining global-level transversal impact projects, will be based on the logical framework developed throughout Monday. Projects will then be scaled from Wednesday to Friday.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Tuesday Morning:
Free Time (organizations work internally with their teams)

Tuesday Afternoon:
Léman Room A+B, Centre de l’Espérance, Eaux-Vives, Geneva
Interactive workshop on defining transversal impact projects. The projects defined in this session will be scaled during the week and included in the fundraising portfolios.
On-site reception from 13:00 to 14:00.

14:00–17:00: Interactive Workshop and Fishbowl Session
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  • Project component marketplace, assembly steps, funding levers.
  • Co-design of large-scale, transdisciplinary impact projects in the form of project consortiums.
  • Each organization present identifies itself as a stakeholder in one or more impact projects, for the portion of accountability that aligns with its mission.
  • Definition of corresponding funding and involvement of relevant countries in collaborative governance.
  • Formalization of the project list for the continuation of the Boot Camp.

From Wednesday Afternoon to Friday Evening:
Boot Camp for impact projects for International Geneva, involving actors from all participating countries and sectors (from thematic plenaries to thematic plenaries). The scaled projects will be presented on Friday afternoon at the UN (see progression below).

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Wednesday Morning:
Free Time (organizations work internally with their teams)

Wednesday Afternoon:
Theater, Centre de l’Espérance, Eaux-Vives, Geneva
Working session: advancing impact projects on the topic of Citizen Science (Detailed Program, Schedule, Registration, and Calls for Contributions)↗

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Theater, Centre de l’Espérance, Eaux-Vives, Geneva

Thursday Morning:
Working session: advancing impact projects on the topics of conflict mediation, peace, and security (Detailed Program, Schedule, Registration, and Calls for Contributions)↗

Thursday Afternoon:
Working session: advancing impact projects on the topics of project-based learning↗ and rights of nature↗ (click for detailed programs, schedules, registration, and calls for contributions).

Thursday Evening:
Second networking dinner (Downtown Geneva)
Information will be sent to registered participants.

Friday, December 12, 2025

UN, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Room XII↗ (Reservation required, please create your user account on this website - see burger menu)

Friday Morning:
Working session: advancing impact projects on the topic of regenerative tourism

Friday Afternoon:
Final presentation of impact projects and progress timelines (concept sketch, preliminary design, detailed design, final project)

(Detailed Friday Program, Schedule, Registration, and Calls for Contributions)↗

This week-long Forum will also be an opportunity to sign public-private partnerships, formulate joint innovation calls, and co-create projects at the intersection of finance, nature, and sustainable development.

In particular, defining transversal impact projects—sized to become legible and eligible for funding sources from Impact Finance—will aim to channel new forms of funding to the organizations that make up International Geneva and the UN system.