Geneva Sustainable Management Workshops

Business workshop

For the series of interactive consultation sessions on the proposal "Geneva, the Impact Capital", see below.

Once a month, gain skills and expand your networks, and advance your business development.

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Global Impact Projects: when International Geneva moves from pain to action

Following its December 2025 session, the Geneva Forum structured the working rhythm of the Global Impact Projects, designed as inter-silo architectures capable of funding international organizations, NGOs, scientific institutions, and mission-driven companies, due to the appeal of the economic models for funders.

The goal of these monthly workshops: concrete, clear, and fundable deliverables, capable of supporting the development of all stakeholder organizations involved in these Global Impact Projects, in order to secure their annual revenues and contribute to their growth, while respecting their respective missions.

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Money is not the issue in itself: what matters is that the €4 trillion circulating annually in the impact sector is directed toward International Geneva.

What is a Global Impact Project?

A Global Impact Project is a shared and structured mechanism, multi-stakeholder and multi-level, designed to:

bring together the right stakeholders at the right time,
clarify a value chain and an operable governance,
produce a credible economic model centered on the mission,
integrate philanthropy, impact investment, and blended finance from the design stage,
and create deliverables that allow institutional funders to finance its stakeholders.

A monthly meeting to refinance International Geneva’s organizations

To transform the momentum from the December 2025 Forum into operational dynamics, the Geneva Forum organizes a one-day workshop per month in Geneva.

Objective: to collectively advance the Global Impact Projects identified through iterations, from intent to structured outline, then toward deliverables solid enough to trigger commitments at various public and private levels (partnerships, funding, mandates).

Typical workshop agenda

Possibility to participate in each module independently.

Morning: Impact Deal Factory
A morning of structuring work, common to all Global Impact Projects, open to already involved operators, observers, and new participants wishing to understand, position themselves, contribute, or engage their organization.

Afternoon: Capacity building and acceleration
An afternoon designed to cross networks, break down silos, attract missing expertise, and generate cooperation opportunities (the kind that are understood without being announced).

Each day follows 4 sequences, in a deliberately fluid order:

a monthly challenge-topic (a concrete entry point),
a progress update
a cross-cutting management theme (what makes the projects operable),
an executive closing roundtable (decisions and mandates, operational roadmap for what’s next).

Possibility to continue the evening with a networking dinner.

Next monthly workshop

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Global Impact Projects: resumption of the autumn workshops

The Learning Project Foundation and impact entrepreneurship

Geneva – venue communicated to registered participants

The September 24, 2026 session opens the autumn cycle of the Geneva Forum’s Sustainable Management Workshops.

From January to June, the Global Impact Projects gained in maturity, methodological robustness and strategic clarity. Several projects are now ready to enter a professional concept design phase, as soon as the necessary funding has been secured.

These professional concept designs represent the next structuring stage. They will make it possible to remunerate the collective work involving expertise, consortium coordination, governance, economic modelling, risk clarification, deliverable preparation and presenting the projects clearly to organisations, institutions, funders and partners.

There are now nine Global Impact Projects mature enough for this stage, with the integration of OneHealth Centers as the ninth mature Global Impact Project.

The Global Impact Projects have reached the threshold of the professional concept design phase. The concept designs will begin once dedicated funding for this collective work has been secured. The preliminary outline proposals will follow, project by project, after the concept designs have been finalised and the seed funding required for each preliminary outline proposal has been obtained.

Programme for the day

September 24 brings together four sessions:

The Learning Project Foundation, Global Impact Project of the month,
a collaborative workshop on impact entrepreneurship: Turning a changemaker idea into an impact project,
an overall update on the progress of the 9 Global Impact Projects,
a participatory consultation on the Geneva, the Impact Capital proposal.

This day is intended for international organisations, United Nations agencies, NGOs, scientific institutions, foundations, mission-driven companies, education stakeholders, funders, experts, entrepreneurs, project leaders, contributors and observers.

Come and understand the progress of the projects, contribute to the next stages, identify your place within the consortiums, or simply discover a working method focused on structural impact.

Morning: The Learning Project Foundation and impact entrepreneurship

Welcome between 09:30 and 10:00.
Working session from 10:00 to 13:00.

The morning is open to participants wishing to discover, contribute, observe, fund, operate or join a project dynamic.

10:00 – 10:20: Opening

From the 2025 Geneva Forum to the 2026 autumn cycle

The morning begins with a clear overview of the progress made since December 2025:

emergence of the Global Impact Projects concept,
monthly workshops from January to June,
increasing project maturity,
clarification of the Global Impact Project format,
gradual identification of stakeholders,
structuring of the initial economic assumptions,
arrival of several projects at the threshold of the professional concept design phase.

The Global Impact Projects are designed as cross-silo architectures capable of strengthening and funding the organisations that contribute to them: international organisations, NGOs, scientific institutions, mission-driven companies, field operators, funders, local authorities, schools, universities and citizen networks.

The autumn cycle prepares the launch of the professional concept designs, the mobilisation of the necessary funding and progress towards the Geneva Forum from December 7 to 11, 2026.

10:20 – 11:10: Global Impact Project of the month

The Learning Project Foundation

Structuring project-based education as a lever for systemic transformation

The Learning Project Foundation explores how project-based learning can become an international educational infrastructure.

The project connects:

learning and real-world challenges,
schools and local areas,
21st-century skills and employability,
younger generations and projects serving the collective good,
education systems and ecological, social, scientific and economic transitions.

The presentation highlights the key elements of the future professional concept design:

systemic problem addressed,
required stakeholders,
education, institutional, economic and philanthropic stakeholders to bring together,
value provided to schools, universities, ministries, foundations, companies and local areas,
possible economic models,
appropriate governance,
evidence to produce in order to make the project clear, credible and fundable.

The Learning Project Foundation opens up a key area of work: moving educational innovation from scattered experiments to a structured, replicable educational architecture that serves education systems.

11:10 – 11:25: Break

11:25 – 12:35: Collaborative workshop

From an idea to an impact project

Turning a changemaker idea into a structured, credible and fundable proposal

This workshop opens the autumn cycle dedicated to impact entrepreneurship, in preparation for the Geneva Forum from December 7 to 11, 2026.

The three autumn workshops follow a simple progression:

September: turning a changemaker idea into an impact project,
October: scaling an impact project towards a viable business model capable of generating financial profits,
November: supporting an existing project towards impact.

The September session starts from the first threshold: the moment when a useful idea becomes clear enough to be developed as a project.

Participants will work on:

formulating the problem,
distinguishing between symptoms and root causes,
beneficiaries,
stakeholders,
possible payers and funders,
value created,
what is already available,
the missing link,
the initial evidence to produce,
moving from the idea to an initial project architecture.

Through practice

Each participant will be able to apply a simple framework to an idea, project or initiative:

problem addressed,
beneficiaries,
stakeholders,
initial value proposition hypothesis,
initial economic model hypothesis,
risks of losing focus,
next evidence to produce.

Bring an idea, a project or an intuition for change. The workshop provides an opportunity to develop it with method, restraint and ambition.

Ideas scale up when they become clear, structured, testable and fundable.

12:35 – 13:00: Morning summary

The morning ends with a collective summary:

lessons from The Learning Project Foundation,
methodological points useful for the other Global Impact Projects,
contributions from the impact entrepreneurship workshop,
questions to explore further before October,
connection with the Geneva Forum in December 2026.