Limited places: call for applications
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International Geneva brings together an exceptional concentration of expertise: international organizations, UN agencies, NGOs, foundations, mission-driven SMEs, permanent missions, public actors, private actors, and impact-driven entrepreneurial initiatives.
This diversity is a strength. But today it also comes with growing fragility: tighter funding, increased expectations from partners, implicit competition for access to the same resources, fragmented initiatives, difficulty in making complementarities visible, and an urgent need to turn cooperation into concrete results.
While UN agencies are working on their own coordination through the UN80 initiative, one question remains open for all the actors that make up International Geneva in the broadest sense:
How can organizations with different missions win together, without diluting them, without putting them in competition with one another, and without diverting them from their core work?
What we will build together
Over 2.5 days, 12 to 16 organizations, one per type of organization that makes up International Geneva, will come together to turn this shared challenge into one or more prototypes of winning collaborations to be tested subsequently in the field (read the PDF below).
Come and propose the theme and working directions.
The workshop will start from the collaborations and funding mechanisms as they are currently experienced by International Geneva organizations in order to explore new cooperation models capable of:
- strengthening the positioning of actors in relation to one another;
- identifying useful complementarities;
- bringing out a collective value proposition;
- structuring new cooperation and funding architectures;
- strengthening the refinancing capacity of the organizations involved;
- relaunching a shared dynamic serving Geneva’s international standing.
The Global Impact Projects and other shared solutions may serve as examples and initial proposals for levers to support this cooperation, pace the first actions, and accelerate the transformation of ideas into concrete tests.
Put your proposals on the table: an action-oriented workshop
The workshop aims to bring out one or more co-constructed operational prototypes, accompanied by a testing roadmap
- Programme de l’atelier (atelier collaboratif en français)
to be carried out collectively:
- priorities;
- mutual roles;
- first actions;
- decisions to be made;
- partners to mobilize;
- tests to organize;
- follow-up steps.
The Geneva Forum in December 2026 may provide an opportunity to take stock of the forms of collaboration that will have been tested in the field.
To join the collective
Interested organizations can join the collective associated with this approach by filling in this information:
Feed the workshop’s work with your responses, and join the working collective.
You will thus stay informed of progress, contribute to the reflections, be associated with the next steps, and take part in the cooperation dynamic that will gradually be structured around the concept of refinancing International Geneva organizations.
Being invited to the interim feedback session
Organizations that wish to follow the process without being able to participate in the entire workshop, and that have completed this form, may be officially invited to the interim feedback session on Tuesday, June 23, in the late afternoon in order to take part in the ongoing reflections.
This feedback session will make it possible to discover the first avenues emerging from the collective work, react to the current directions, provide an outside perspective, and help enrich the prototypes before they are finalized.
Being invited to the final interactive feedback session
A final interactive feedback session will take place on Thursday, June 25, in the afternoon at the House of the Future.
Organizations that have completed this form will receive the official invitation.
This meeting will make it possible to present the first collaboration prototypes, the testing roadmap, the proposed next steps, and the possible forms of involvement for interested organizations.
It will also provide a space for exchange with actors from the Geneva ecosystem who wish to contribute to the collective relaunch of Geneva’s international standing.
Applying to participate in the entire workshop
A limited number of places is planned for organizations wishing to place one person at the heart of the process for the 2 and a half days.
Applications will be reviewed in order to best represent the different types of organizations that make up International Geneva: NGOs, foundations, international organizations, UN agencies, permanent missions, mission-driven SMEs, public actors, private actors, and impact-driven entrepreneurial initiatives.
Selected individuals will participate in the entire workshop and will contribute directly to the co-construction of the collaboration prototypes and the collective roadmap.
General workshop schedule
Monday, June 22
- Welcome, framing of the question, and explanation of the process
- Design Challenge
- Mapping of the environment
- Description of personas
- Brainstorming question: what do we want to solve?
- Idea generation
- Prototyping of the best ideas
Tuesday, June 23
- Idea generation
- Prototyping of the best ideas
- Feedback between groups
- Correction of prototypes
- Preparation of tests
- Interim interactive feedback session for testing and adjustments with the people present
Wednesday, June 24
- Correction of prototypes
- Preparation of the first implementation step
- Formalization of the next actions
- Collective testing roadmap
Thursday, June 25 afternoon
- Final interactive feedback session
Facilitation and focal points
- Facilitation in French
- Facilitator: Jean-Charles LIECHTI
- Focal points: Thomas EGLI, Geneva Forum; Mafalda NUNES, Forum La Mobilière