Our Bigger Picture

Collaboratio helvetica was founded in early 2017, with the vision to catalyse systems change towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Switzerland. At the core of collaboratio helvetica’s work is the activation of an ecosystem of individuals and organisations that leverages cross-sector collaboration. Since then, we tested our assumptions, ran countless experiments and gained crucial insights around how social innovation towards this vision could be realised and what this work takes. On this basis, we constantly improved our strategy and sharpened our mission over the years. The 2019 strategy revision for example led to the creation of the highly successful Catalyst Lab to fill the gaps we had identified.

Ahead of our 5th anniversary in 2022, we invested additional resources in an in-depth reflection, evaluation and learning process, to create a roadmap 2023. As we looked back to 2017, we saw how spot on our original inquiry was, and how many winding paths we had to take - and will continue to take - to find out what it really takes to effectively do this work.

The roadmap 2030 was a framework for the time span from 2021 to 2030. It listed the areas of work that collaboratio helvetica had identified as being key to fulfil its mission towards its vision. As a learning organisation, we will continuously revise the roadmap 2030 on the basis of learning from each domain and activity, as well as when emergent opportunities or challenges require attention.

In 2023, with the support of Mercator and Consense Consulting, we undertook an in-depth evaluation process to sharpen our focus, culminating in developing our new portfolio of learning journeys, workshops and courses.