Call for Solutions
Our Call for Solutions will be back in 2025.
History has proven time and again that international cooperation is key to overcoming global challenges and ensuring lasting peace. This is why, since 2018, the Paris Peace Forum operates as a platform that brings together all stakeholders around the world – political and economic decision-makers, companies, civil society and leaders from academia, culture, sports, and media – mobilized to foster innovative multi-actor solutions to these global challenges. The Paris Peace Forum has had the privilege of working with 515 solutions from around the world, these projects are the living proof that global cooperation can make a difference.
Our Calls for Solutions invite all the actors that address today’s pressing issues. For selected teams, the Forum’s Space for Solutions offers an opportunity to showcase their work by speaking on stage and gaining visibility, interacting with a wide range of global governance actors, and potentially growing their initiatives through the Forum’s Scale-up program.
What kind of projects are we looking for?
As an example, in 2023, we invited applications on the following 10 themes:
Protecting and preserving our planet
- Biodiversity: Preserving and protecting forests to achieve climate and biodiversity objectives and implement the COP15 roadmap.
- Climate: Making carbon offset markets trustworthy and effective.
- Critical minerals: Strengthening cooperation across consuming and producing countries around access to critical minerals to enable a just ecological transition.
Building a fairer and more equal world
- Women and agriculture: Supporting women to strengthen agricultural resilience
in a context of food crisis. - Sports: Changing social norms by promoting inclusion and sustainability through sports.
- Outer Space: Promoting fair access to outer space by the Global South to accelerate SDGs and growth.
Fostering a safer world
- Conflict resolution: Building back better after conflict: inclusive and sustainable reconstruction.
- Global Health: Exploring the ethics and global governance of genome editing.
Making the digital transformation work for all
- Online content: Securing our democratic informational environment.
- Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI for better public policy.
Project leaders from past editions
Timeline
Selection Committee
Fabienne Hara
Deputy Director General, Paris Peace Forum
Maria Paz Canales
Head of Legal, Policy and Research, Global Partners Digital
Meredith Preston McGhie
Secretary General, Global Center for Pluralism
Nagla Rizk
Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo, and Founding Director of Access Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D)
Magda Robalo
President, Institute for Global Health and Development
Satya Tripathi
Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet
Everything you need to know about the Call for Solutions
The sixth edition of the Paris Peace Forum, which will be held tentatively in Paris on November 10-11, 2023, will be a unique opportunity to move forward your project or initiative. In case of selection, you will benefit from international visibility and exposure thanks to the physical presence of your project during the event (stand or signage); you will take the floor during the event to speak about your work and/or share your views on the issue in global governance that you are addressing; and meet and discuss with experts and decisionmakers in your domain. All projects will also receive the Paris Peace Forum 2023 label and be considered by the jury of the Scale-up Committee for support throughout 2024, as part of our Scale-up program.
Read through the rules of the 2023 Call for Solutions
The sixth edition of the Paris Peace Forum will be dedicated to projects and initiatives from around the world addressing one of the following themes:
Protecting and preserving our planet
- Biodiversity: Preserving and protecting forests
to achieve climate and biodiversity objectives
and implement the COP15 roadmap. - Climate: Making carbon offset markets
trustworthy and effective. - Critical minerals: Strengthening cooperation across consuming and producing countries around access to critical minerals to enable a just ecological transition.
Building a fairer and more equal world
- Women and agriculture: Supporting women’s
endeavors to strengthen agricultural resilience
in a context of food crisis. - Sport: Changing social norms by promoting
inclusion and sustainability through sports. - Outer Space: Promoting fair access to outer space by the Global South to accelerate SDGs and growth.
Fostering a safer world
- Conflict resolution: Building back better after
conflict: inclusive and sustainable
reconstruction. - Global Health: Exploring the ethics and global
governance of genome editing.
Making the digital transformation work for all
- Online content: Securing our democratic
informational environment. - Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI for better public policy.
The Paris Peace Forum does not finance projects (including projects presented at the event and projects supported as part of the SCUP program).
In order to be considered by our Selection Committee, the applications submitted in the framework of the call for solutions must meet the following seven criteria:
- Be submitted by an organization and not an individual.
- Be managed by at least two people who confirm availability to prepare and present the project throughout the entire duration of the Forum (from 9 to 11 November 2023).
- Be aligned with one of the priority themes of the sixth edition of the Forum.
- Present a level of advancement: at least in the pilot phase with some implementation underway (may be preliminary), not just in the design or start-up phases.
- Involve a specific, tangible, and distinct action, which excludes the following: academic research or work in the form of ideas without a plan for implementation; general frameworks or organizational programs rather than specific solutions.
- Do not apply with the aim of requesting funding from the Paris Peace Forum.
- Have an international dimension, or, at least, for local or national initiatives, involve actors or resources from other countries, and possess potential for credible international action.
The Selection Committee will then assess each eligible submission taking into account the general quality of the project (feasibility and coherence, credibility and potential, impact) as well as the relevance of the project to the priorities and approach of the Paris Peace Forum (universality, global or international relevance, link with global governance, a cooperation-based approach, diversity of actors involved, innovative, new, or unique dimension, added value of presenting the project at the Paris Peace Forum).
The Selection Committee will also base its choice on the geographic, functional, and thematic diversity, in line with the theme and priorities of the Paris Peace Forum for 2023.
Read through the rules of the 2023 Call for Solutions
All organizations (states or governments, civil society, companies, international organizations, research institutes, etc.) offering a concrete project or initiative to a contemporary global challenge across one of the 2023 Forum’s themes can apply.
You can apply to the Call for Solutions by filling in this online form: https://project.parispeaceforum.org/?lang=en. Only completed and submitted submissions will be considered.
Organizations may submit any number of applications as part of this Call for Solutions.
Applications must be submitted either in French or in English.
Our call for solutions is open until 11:59 pm CET on May 23, 2023.
Applying to our call for solutions is free of charge.
Should your project be selected, you will be asked to pay a participation fee of €1200 pre-tax that cover opportunities for visibility and exchange during the event as well as access to specific areas and services reserved for project leaders. You will also need to cover the costs of your travel to Paris as long as the pandemic allows for in-person participation.
The Paris Peace Forum may provide grants to selected project leaders who are unable to cover the costs of participating in the Forum (€1200 participation fees, transportation and/or housing in case of travel to Paris). Priority will be given to requests submitted by project leaders working in organizations of modest financial means, especially those from countries in the Global South, whose participation in the Forum would require a significant mobilization of financial resources.
All candidates will be notified on a confidential basis via e-mail of the Selection Committee’s decision during the week of July 10, 2023.
The selected projects will be officially announced during the week of September 4, 2023 on the Paris Peace Forum website.
Throughout the selection process, the Paris Peace Forum and the members of the Selection Committee will not respond to any requests for information about the application procedure or results.
For any additional information, please read the rules of the call for solutions or write to project@parispeaceforum.org