our impact

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Funding Systems Change

Foundations play an important role in enabling and guiding action towards a more sustainable and ethical future. The increasing complexity of the challenges we are facing and the need to work towards systemic change has motivated us to convene actors from the field that are interested in exploring this topic further. Our intention is to co-create a series of stakeholder dialogues with the aim to ideate and prototype novel modes of collaboration and funding to enable and enhance social innovation and systemic change at scale.

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Future Dialogues

Crises cause great challenges, conflicts and traumatic experiences. At the same time, however, they create spaces for new opportunities to arise.

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Renewing Education

Our education system is based on functional and knowledge learning. Plans, instructions, school-clock, time and performance are key. Personal development and natural growth is undervalued in the school and in the company environment. Many sectors of economy are in a huge transformation process and industries are more and more fully automatized.

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Democracy in Transformation

Citizens-led solutions to empower democratic decision-making for complex problem solving

As a society, we need to tackle the climate and ecological crisis. The “Democracy in transformation” working group of Nova Helvetia aims to find out how we can solve these complex problems that require political efficiency by implementing alternative forms of a society-led democracy.

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Sustainable Cities and Neighbourhoods

The COVID-19 crisis offered an unparalleled opportunity to reflect on how we live together in the city: our dependencies, relationships, blind spots and processes, as well as our stories and mental models that hold our society together.

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One Health & Climate

COVID-19 has delivered a stark lesson about the global interconnectedness of the health of humans, animals and our planet, known as the One Health concept. In the times of a drastically warming climate, the decisions that are taken during the next 18 months will fundamentally define the health of all future living beings.

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Nova Helvetia

An explorative journey to a healthy post COVID-19 Switzerland - With the Corona crisis, we are facing an unprecedented disruption. Systems we relied on before are on the brink of collapse and immediate actions were needed on multiple levels.

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Manifesto for Switzerland

Lowering the barriers to collaboration! Collaboratio helvetica is cultivating the conditions for collaboration towards systemic change, and activating ecosystems is a key part of this.

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Community Platform

A platform to connect, share and co-create! In August 2019, collaboratio helvetica launched its online community platform.

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Dialogue Evening

The Dialogue Prototypes are events that developed out of the Dialogue Trainings, where our Dialogue Training participants took their first steps applying their new dialogue skills at practical and real events and topics.

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How to hire the right people?

How to find a process that is appreciative and allows to really get to know and understand each others despite limited time available?

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Playful Rebellion

How can we soften resistance around gender stereotypes?

We don’t know! We haven’t (yet) found the ultimate recipe to break free from gender stereotypes.

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Salary Prototype

In our times, money is omnipresent and when raised as a topic, it does something to us all.cIn our society personal worth is often equated with money, be it through salaries for our work or the worth of things we own.

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