Geneva Global Games
The Geneva Global games gathered Think tanks from around the world, specialized in Green Economy and Digital Health to presente a promising research project.
DebaTable
DebaTable is an event format that aims to gather five to ten representatives from different sectors, political orientations and backgrounds to a personal discussion on current hot topics.
Futures Champions
“Futures Champions” is a foraus’ project that aims to increase young people's participation in the democratic debate.
Think & Drink
“Think and Drink” gathers experts from International Geneva and interested individuals to create a space where the participants exchange about topics relevant to International Geneva in a relaxed setting.
Future impulses from students
Each year, foraus and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts accompany two cohorts of students excelling at Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences who are supported in their diverse careers by a scholarship from the Hirschmann Foundation.
Future of Human Mobility
Quo Vadis? Where are we going? During the COVID-19 pandemic, this question took on a whole new meaning. As human mobility was called into question across the world, the way we move - or do not move - was being scrutinized more than ever. In this project foraus, the Open Think Tank Network and the Kenia-based organization The Youth Cafe used participatory foresight to look at the future of human mobility.
World Biodiversity Forum 2022
In June 2022, foraus conducted a unique co-creation process drafting the Conference Resolution of the World Biodiversity Forum (WBF) 2022 based on inputs from more than 90 scientists and biodiversity experts from around the world.
Future of Human Mobility
Quo vadis? Where are we going? During the COVID-19 pandemic, this question took on a whole new meaning. As human mobility was called into question across the world, the way we move - or do not move - was being scrutinezed more than ever. By immersing the participants into the experience of five fictional personas in different situations and with different needs, we facilitated access into future migration scenarios and opened up explorative spaces.
Switzerland at the UN Security Council in 2023-24
In this project, we crowdsourced citizens’ ideas about the thematic priorities Switzerland could follow during its tenure at the UN Security Council in 2023-24. During a series of four workshops we exchanged with experts from the field and interested citizens about Switzerland’s potential role as a non-permanent member of the UNSC.
Towards an Inclusive Future in AI
In 2019, foraus Swissnex and AI Commons launched the global campaign «Towards an Inclusive Future in AI» using foraus’ Policy Kitchen methodology. This joint experiment resulted in 11 workshops in 8 countries, involving 10 partner organization and about 120 participants.
Switzerland at the UN Security Council in 2023-24
In this project, we crowdsourced citizens’ ideas about the thematic priorities Switzerland could follow during its tenure at the UN Security Council in 2023-24. During a series of four workshops we exchanged with experts from the field and interested citizens about Switzerland’s potential role as a non-permanent member of the UNSC.
WinterSchool for Thinktankers (WISCH)
WISCH was a seven-day intensive course with lectures and guided group work for young and proactive individuals to become future policy entrepreneurs.
Tour de Suisse FIFDH x foraus
In fall 2022 foraus collaborated with the "International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights" (FIFDH) through a Swiss Tour in partnership with its regional groups
EU citizens in Switzerland: your voice, your opinion!
With this project we give EU citizens living in Switzerland a voice and an active role in the public debate about climate, migration and digital policy, fostering a constructive dialogue about the shared future between Switzerland and the EU in the in these policy areas.
One Health for the Future
In this participatory project, we explored the concept of One Health combining human, animal, and ecosystem health considerations and needed policy measures to prevent the phenomena of zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, and food safety and security threats in the future.
Global Labs
Global Labs connects students from Geneva and beyond with professionals from International Geneva, to foster innovative policy ideas in the area of global health.
SDG Accelerator
The 2017 SDG Accelerator #PolicyHack was a two and a half day event that aimed to create a space for the development of new tools and innovations tackling SDG number 5 “Gender equality”.
Futuring Peace in North East Asia
Young people have the potential to build peaceful societies and support effective governance in their communities, now and in the upcoming decades. Training youth to collectively imagine the future can ensure lasting impact and create the conditions for dialogue and cooperation between governments and peoples of Northeast Asia, for the generations to come.
Foreign Policy Day
Thought-provoking debates on pressing foreign policy issues: in 2019, foraus initiated the «Foreign Policy Day» together with the Swiss Association for Foreign Affairs (SGA-ASPE).
Think Tank Hub
The Think Tank Hub Geneva, founded in April 2014, is an initiative undertaken by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in collaboration with the Think Tank foraus – Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy.
International Digital Health
In this project, we engaged 140 stakeholders and citizens around the challenges related to the use of health data in innovative workshop-formats and collectively formulated policy recommendations.
Sustainable FinTech
Sustainable FinTech serves as a platform and network to enable, encourage and foster innovative sustainable policies, services and product ideas which further these goals.
The WinterSchool for Thinktankers – WISCH
foraus and the Think Tank Hub, in collaboration with On Think Tanks have become a pioneer in hosting and co-organizing the first on-site training for Thinktankers.
10 years foraus
Ten years ago, a group of students discovered that young people in Switzerland had too little to say in foreign policy – and founded foraus. foraus has since developed into the Swiss think tank on foreign policy and proved that think tanks à la grassroots work.
Tour de Suisse
From January to May 2019, foraus toured nine Swiss cities and highlighted topics that have an impact on Geneva, Switzerland and the world.
