The 2026 edition of the Geneva Forum will continue the work begun in 2025: making International Geneva a place where consensus, expertise and intentions are transformed into concrete, structured and financeable impact projects.
This new edition will be organized as a pro-to-pro Boot Camp dedicated to impact, enabling participating organizations to move their impact projects forward, half-day after half-day, whether they are:
- new monospecific projects,
- existing monospecific projects,
- new Global Impact Projects,
- Global Impact Projects already being structured.
The objective is not only to present ideas, but to work on them collectively in order to make them clearer, stronger, more cooperative and more compatible with the expectations of partners, funders and field actors.
Following on from global consensus, transforming ideas into concrete, structured and financeable impact projects.
The week will be dedicated to the operational advancement of impact projects. Among all the Forum participants, those who attend the entire Boot Camp will be able to advance their projects at each stage, successively benefiting from contributions related to regenerative tourism, impact finance, the rights of nature, responsible economic models, citizen science, conflict mediation and project-based pedagogy.
Participants attending one or more half-days will be able, for their part, to help enrich the projects from their area of expertise, while identifying the consortiums, partnerships or dynamics with which they could usefully connect.
A single project can thus be strengthened, in just one week, across its economic, social, environmental, educational, diplomatic and financial dimensions.
"From Impact Entrepreneurship to the Refinancing of International Geneva: Making the UN, International Organizations and NGOs intelligible to impact finance. Joint business opportunities."
18th Geneva Forum,
from December 7 to 11, 2026 at the United Nations and in Geneva.
The week will be dedicated to scaling up and developing monospecific or global impact projects. From one half-day to the next, the partners present will be able to integrate their respective activities within responsible business consortia that may subsequently benefit from impact financing. The various project portfolios that will have been hosted, supported or defined during the Forum week will be the subject of fundraising campaigns conducted from the first half of 2027.
Monday, December 7, 2026
Welcome, framing and Boot Camp launch day↗, dedicated to Resilient and regenerative tourism↗.
UN, Palais des Nations, Geneva, room to be defined. Reservation required. Practical information will be sent to registered participants.
Monday morning:
Staggered welcome of participants and one-on-one meetings↗.
This first morning will make it possible:
- to welcome participants as they arrive,
- to organize the first targeted meetings,
- to clarify the expectations of project leaders, partners, funders and observers,
- to identify the new or existing projects that will run through the week,
- to establish the Boot Camp working framework.
Monday afternoon:
Advancing impact projects on the aspect of resilient and regenerative tourism↗.
This first thematic sequence will make it possible to explore tourism as a cross-cutting lever:
- for creating local jobs,
- for regenerating territories,
- for enhancing cultures and heritage,
- for contributing to biodiversity, climate and local economies,
- for mobilizing new impact-related economic models.
(Detailed program for Resilient and Regenerative Tourism, Schedule, Registration and Calls for Contributions)↗
This first day will enable projects to enter into a concrete working dynamic, linking territorial, economic and environmental issues from the outset.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Day dedicated to Impact Finance↗ and the Rights of Nature↗.
Tuesday morning:
Working workshop on Impact Finance↗.
This morning will make it possible to move projects forward on their financial dimensions:
- readability for funders,
- revenue models,
- blended finance,
- strategic philanthropy,
- impact investments,
- financing needs,
- bankability conditions.
The objective is to enable projects to better speak the language of funders, without losing their mission or their impact requirements.
(Detailed Impact Finance program, Schedule, Registration and Calls for Contributions)↗
Tuesday afternoon:
Working workshop on the Rights of Nature↗.
This sequence will make it possible to strengthen projects through reflection on:
- the rights of living beings,
- natural commons,
- new legal and economic frameworks,
- ecological governance,
- the place of territories, ecosystems and communities in projects.
(Detailed Rights of Nature program, Schedule, Registration and Calls for Contributions)↗
The projects will be worked on both as responsible economic opportunities and as responses to the limits of models that do not yet take living systems into account.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2026
Day dedicated to Smart Currencies and Responsible Economic Models↗ and Citizen Science and Fab Lab↗.
Wednesday morning:
Working workshop on Smart Currencies and Responsible Economic Models↗.
This morning will make it possible to move forward on:
- hybrid economic models,
- recurring revenues,
- incentive mechanisms,
- complementary or smart currencies,
- regenerative economy approaches,
- medium- and long-term viability conditions.
The objective is to strengthen projects in their ability to produce impact while generating the resources needed for their sustainability.
(Detailed Smart Currencies and Responsible Economic Models program, Schedule, Registration and Calls for Contributions)↗
Wednesday afternoon:
Working workshop on Citizen Science and Fab Lab↗.
This sequence will make it possible to work on projects based on:
- citizen participation,
- the production of field data,
- Fab Labs and open innovation systems,
- participatory research protocols,
- useful, accessible and appropriable technologies,
- impact measurement by communities.
(Detailed Citizen Science and Fab Lab program, Schedule, Registration and Calls for Contributions)↗
Citizen science and Fab Labs enable projects not only to be designed for territories, but with them.
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Thursday, December 10, 2026
Day dedicated to Conflict Mediation↗ and Project-Based Pedagogy for Successful Education↗.
Thursday morning:
Working workshop on Conflict Mediation↗.
This morning will make it possible to strengthen projects in their dimensions of:
- multi-stakeholder dialogue,
- prevention of blockages,
- cooperation between institutions, communities, companies and territories,
- citizen diplomacy,
- shared governance,
- resolution of tensions that can hinder scaling up.
The objective is to make projects more robust in complex contexts where interests, cultures, standards and priorities may diverge.
(Detailed Conflict Mediation program, Schedule, Registration and Calls for Contributions)↗
Thursday afternoon:
Working workshop on Project-Based Pedagogy for Successful Education↗.
This sequence will make it possible to address project-based pedagogy as a lever:
- for active learning,
- for skills development,
- for training young people and professionals,
- for transmitting know-how,
- for mobilizing schools, universities, companies and communities,
- for achieving educational and societal objectives.
(Detailed Project-Based Pedagogy for Successful Education program, Schedule, Registration and Calls for Contributions)↗
Project-based pedagogy enables impact projects to also become spaces for learning, transmission and capacity building.
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Friday, December 11, 2026
Day of reporting, arbitration and operational projection.
Friday morning:
Reporting on the progress of impact projects.
The projects that have run through the week will present the progress achieved during the Boot Camp:
- new monospecific projects,
- existing monospecific projects,
- new Global Impact Projects,
- existing Global Impact Projects,
- projects to be strengthened, merged, repositioned or prepared for financing.
This reporting will make it possible to share:
- the progress achieved,
- points of convergence,
- missing partners,
- financial needs,
- the next structuring steps,
- the conditions for moving toward the outline, preliminary project or investment file.
Friday afternoon:
Executive Round Table: strategy and operations for the year ahead.
The week will conclude with an executive round table aimed at establishing the shared roadmap for the following year:
- work priorities for 2027,
- responsibilities of stakeholders,
- follow-up actions for projects,
- post-Forum meetings,
- financing needs,
- partnerships to be formalized,
- governance and implementation stages.
The closing of the Forum does not mark the end of the work, but the beginning of the next operational cycle.
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The Geneva Forum 2026 is thus designed as an intensive, progressive and structuring working week, enabling participants to move their projects forward within an interprofessional, international and action-oriented framework.
From one half-day to the next, each project will be able to be enriched by complementary perspectives, until it has a clearer trajectory toward:
- structuring,
- partnerships,
- governance,
- financing,
- scaling up.
In particular, the advancement of impact projects during the week will aim to strengthen their readability, credibility, economic potential and capacity to mobilize partners from International Geneva, territories, impact finance and the professional communities concerned.
