Your catalyst for collective innovation
Innovation in International Geneva is vibrant yet often fragmented. Collective innovation thrives when stakeholders from the public, private, and civic sectors collaborate across silos.
Shared values and overlapping missions create potential for collaboration. What’s missing is a structure that helps connect the right people, ideas, and initiatives—at the right time.
Within International Geneva, ge-ni provides a collaborative framework that unites innovators. By creating the conditions for exchange, it helps accelerate projects and initiatives across institutions and disciplines.
Why did ge-ni come to life?
International Geneva is challenged by institutional budget cuts, calling for innovative solutions. In response, the idea of a network of innovators (ge-ni) emerged.
Ge-ni connects innovators across institutions, sectors, and communities.
The aim is to transform ideas into system-wide progress.
What sets ge-ni apart?
As a catalyst ge-ni fosters collaboration across all sectors and disciplines.
Nonprofits and international organisations connect with businesses, startups, and academia to boost responsible innovation.
Rooted in Geneva’s values and guided by a global outlook, ge-ni uncovers common ground and sparks collaboration beyond silos.
To turn shared values into collective impact, ge-ni follows four strategic goals that guide its facilitation and future growth.
These goals are practical and collaborative, designed to reduce fragmentation. They connect our efforts, and deliver sustainable outcomes across International Geneva’s innovation ecosystem.
They reflect how we work together:
In a space as diverse and dynamic as Geneva, progress depends not just on innovation—but on alignment and shared purpose.
Ge-ni provides informal spaces where innovators can connect, share, and build trust across International Geneva . Shared platforms and gatherings foster visibility and alignment.
Each year, ge-ni will facilitate a flagship initiative to bring actors together. These projects will demonstrate the power of pooled ideas and collective action.
We co-design sustainable funding frameworks to support long-term partnerships—ensuring innovation efforts remain viable and inclusive.
Ge-ni fosters a culture of continuous learning, drawing lessons from what works—and what doesn’t—to guide future action and amplify shared impact.
Through ge-ni, innovators will find opportunities to meet peers, partners, and innovators from other sectors and institutions—people they might not otherwise encounter, but who share their values and ambition for impact.
Ideas and initiatives gain visibility as they are showcased through shared communications and events that amplify a collective voice across Geneva and beyond.
Ge-ni provides a trusted space to explore joint solutions to shared challenges—turning early-stage ideas into collaborative experiments that no single actor could pilot alone.
Through open dialogue and shared reflection, ge-ni supports continuous learning—not just about what works, but why—helping innovators strengthen both your practice and your partnerships.
