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Strategic Intelligence provides “Transformation Maps” developed by the World Economic Forum that deliver insights, analysis, and data on more than 250 topic areas.
EarthTime enables users to interact with visualizations of the Earth's transformation over time. It combines huge data sets with decades of images captured by NASA and European Space Agency satellites.
Global Issues Survey 2023 reveals that today's youth recognize the profound impact of global challenges on their future work and daily lives.
Villars Framework for a Sustainable Trading System designed to revitalize the trade system to make it more sustainable, people-centered, effective, inclusive, transparent, and digital.
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28th Nov 2023Author:
Jade Hameister OAMHow do today’s youth perceive the impact of global issues on their future? Although their lives will be shaped by climate change and biodiversity loss, young people are seldom heard when it comes to such global challenges. The first Villars... read more
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28th Nov 2023Learn how the prize seeks to ‘accelerate scientific solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet’ by engaging with scientists working on projects with the greatest potential to heal and stabilize the global ecosystem.
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6th Nov 2023Have you ever felt anxious or overwhelmed about the state of our planet? If so, you’re not alone. So what can we do? Systems leadership uses systems thinking to create a framework to channel those feelings into agency.
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4th Oct 2023Global trade is an integral part of our interconnected world, allowing the smooth flow of goods and services which many of us take for granted. Now, as we face the existential threat of climate change, how can our current trade... read more
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25th Sep 2023Our planet is facing complex, systemic challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and renewable energy. Why is systems leadership the solution? read more
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25th Sep 2023The 2023-2024 Fellowship Program has four dimensions, and each aims to develop Villars Fellows into system leaders through intergenerational collaboration and interdisciplinary knowledge: read more
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22nd Sep 2023The collaboration between the Diablerets International Alpine Film Festival (FIFAD) and the Villars Institute aims to amplify the transformative role that film can play as a conduit for action on climate change, by helping promote discussion and build bridges between... read more
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8th Sep 2023Music has the power to bring people together across borders, barriers and generations. Nowhere is that more apparent than at the Villars Music Academy (VMA). Swiss violinist Aline Champion aims to transform musical training for talented young performers. Along with... read more
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16th Aug 2023The Villars Institute was founded on the 15th of January 2022. We want to thank the Villars community and our partners for an amazing first year. Here is a look at the milestones from 2022 and our exciting plans for... read more
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8th Jun 2023The EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission is updating the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ to address severe environmental degradation, and to prevent approximately 11 million premature adult deaths annually. read more
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9th May 2023The Minerva Project and the Villars Institute are creating a unique, intergenerational course to introduce systems thinking skills to young and adult learners.
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8th Feb 2023The Villars Institute is collaborating with Montreux Jazz Festival to promote young musical talent. Here’s all you need to know
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22nd Nov 2022Author:
Olivia Avalos Villar, Eloise Westfeldt, Sofiia MartianovaScientific and technological breakthroughs are happening at an unprecedented pace, and tomorrow’s discoveries are already shaping today’s outcomes. Created in 2019, the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) Foundation champions anticipation as a key to building a sustainable, inclusive future... read more
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16th Aug 2022Author:
Suzan CraigGlobal warming and biodiversity loss are two of the biggest crises facing our planet. The two are interlinked, though treated as separate issues by the international community: global warming is the focus of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference... read more
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15th Jun 2022The planet's natural cycles produce most of the carbon in the atmosphere. But human activities have disturbed the natural balance. Fortunately, nature also has the capability to reduce the harmful emissions produced by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels,... read more
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2nd Jun 2022We are undergoing an energy revolution, and it has the potential to reduce – even reverse – the impacts of climate change, provide a raft of new opportunities for employment and education across the globe, and improve the quality of... read more
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27th May 2022It’s easy to be cynical about the idea of "changing the system". When you see how the structures of democratic societies are failing to take seriously the pressing global problems of our time, giving up in despair is an understandable... read more
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11th May 2022The challenges facing our shared planet are large and complex. But a small village in the mountains of Switzerland is set to become a platform for empowering future global change-makers, by bridging generational divides and nurturing collaboration across disciplines. Their... read more
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13th Apr 2022The Villars Institute was established to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions and to improve the health of the planet. It is an ambitious goal, but it can be achieved by bringing together exceptional people from all generations to... read more
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12th Apr 2022Born in a village in the Swiss Alps, The Villars Institute aims to accelerate the transition to a net zero economy and to improve the health of the planet for all its inhabitants.
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12th Apr 2022Author:
Catherine AllenAfter more than a decade producing the World Economic Forum's influential Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Lee Howell is embarking on an exciting adventure as Executive Director of the Villars Institute. Lee is an American, born and raised in Japan,... read more
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