Ethical Currencies and Economic Models

 Frame

At a time when International Geneva is facing a major polycrisis and seeking new sources of revenue and prosperity, and while various global economic regions such as Europe are confronted with the need to reindustrialize and with the economic decline highlighted by the Draghi Report, it has become urgent to rethink our economic foundations and their models of daily functioning. The questioning of globalization as established since the WTO opens a strategic window to explore sustainable, resilient, and value-creating alternatives.

Bio-inspired economic models represent a major pathway: they are rooted in the principles of nature — cooperation, circularity, resilience, energy optimization — to define new economic frameworks capable of generating wealth and jobs while reducing vulnerability to market shocks (inflation, global fluctuations). By mobilizing ecosystem services as levers, these models can transcend current paradigms and enable impact projects to fully deploy themselves within a renewed economic environment.

The interactive workshop will be structured in three parts:

• Two introductory presentations on bio-inspired economic models and their concrete applications (Europe, International Geneva, strategic sectors).
• An interactive exchange with the audience based on SMART questions, through polls, word clouds and live co-creation, to identify challenges and opportunities.
• A project pre-dimensioning workshop, aimed at laying the first milestones for a bio-inspired economic framework adapted to impact projects and their scaling-up.

Participants will contribute to:

• Analyzing bio-inspired models already tested in various European territories or in selected success stories of International Geneva.
• Identifying key success factors and obstacles encountered.
• Determining the conditions for scaling-up and the public-private tools to be mobilized.
• Drafting concrete pathways for European reindustrialization and a new prosperity for International Geneva based on bio-inspired economics.

Final objective: to provide impact and high-impact projects with economic models that go beyond current logics, creating a new economic environment where they can fully unleash their potential for wealth generation and positive impact.

Discussions among stakeholders in this meeting take place both as a Round Table with the speakers and in breakout group debates involving the Assembly audience.

Geneva - Wednesday, December 10, 2025, Morning

This annual collaborative space allows stakeholders in the field to share practices, challenges, solutions, ideas, and needs.

 Call for Contributions

 Proceedings from Previous Years

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 Program

SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS

 Registration and Memberships

During the Geneva Forum, you can be a member of the audience, contribute ideas for Impact Projects or be in the process of scaling up Impact Projects, propose a Poster presentation, or submit a conference proposal to be delivered at the event. (Deadline for submitting an abstract: see the call for contributions for the conference)

To participate in the Geneva Forum, you must subscribe to the Membership "Event".

Once your membership has been validated, you will receive all the necessary logistical information, as well as the link to generate your badge for each event, a few days beforehand.