What We Do

Explore our ongoing projects and collaborations through which we put our ideas into action.

Youth Moving Beyond GDP

In partnership with UNCTAD and Rethinking Economics International, this initiative empowers young people to reshape how we define progress. It opens space for youth to share bold ideas about moving beyond GDP, contribute directly to global policy conversations, and break the “intergenerational glass ceiling” in economic thinking.

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What’s Next Series

Our flagship dialogue platform explores what lies ahead for sustainable development. It puts youth, future generations, and underrepresented voices at the center, connecting them with decision-makers to spark systemic solutions and challenge outdated development models.

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The Futures Balance

This interactive tool helps policymakers understand the long-term effects of their decisions. Using AI and systems thinking, it highlights where today’s policies create lasting assets, or future burdens, and supports the shift to more sustainable alternatives.

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Spillover-Innovation Learning Journey

This learning program helps leaders integrate “spillover awareness” — the unintended effects of policies — into sustainability strategies. It also feeds into our Futures Balance tool to sharpen how we assess long-term policy impact.

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The Hope Project

Created with the University of Geneva’s Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, this initiative uses the science of hope to drive action. Through a new methodology of hope, it helps shift narratives, guide communication, and even support negotiations. A future “House of Hope” will serve as a space to bring these ideas to life.

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The Beyonds Challenge

This participatory challenge invites people from all walks of life to co-create answers to the most pressing sustainability questions. It focuses on cross-generational and cross-cultural engagement, bringing fresh perspectives from beyond the traditional development world.

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The Beyond Action Platform

A digital hub combining the Beyond Magazine, Beyond Podcast, and Beyonds Challenge into one inclusive space. It spotlights diverse voices — from students to scientists to artists — and helps shape new sustainability stories that challenge extractive models and inspire long-term change.

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The Beyond Lab Residency

Inspired by artistic residencies, this program brings in unconventional thinkers — artists, scientists, strategists — to prototype long-term solutions for sustainability. Residents help infuse intergenerational equity and creative thinking into real policymaking.

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The Beyond Alliance

Bringing together governments, civil society, and the private sector, the Beyond Alliance is a high-level network that informs global conversations on what’s needed to achieve sustainability — and how we get there. It builds collective momentum toward bold action beyond 2030.

The UN Innovation Ecosystem

In partnership with the UN Innovation Network, we work with innovators across the UN to rethink how the system operates. Projects like the UN Innovation Fellowship and the Department of the Possible help us explore new ways of working rooted in imagination, agency, and regenerative systems.

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