The Forum for Global Challenges is a major biennial conference seeking to catalyse solutions to the some of the most pressing challenges of our time: climate change and inequality.
The 3000-delegate Forum 2022 will be held in Birmingham, UK, between 3-5 May 2022, and will be fully hybrid.
The Forum is organised by the University of Birmingham, through its Institute for Global Innovation, in collaboration with the World Bank, UNESCO, UNDP, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, the Confederation of British Industry, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the West Midlands Combined Authority, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Confirmed keynote speakers include presidents, leaders of international organisations and NGOs, business leaders, politicians, philanthropists, practitioners and thought leaders from academia and beyond.
Why attend the Forum?
1. Make a positive impact
Showcase your policy, societal and technical solutions, and widen their reach and impact
2. Interact with global thought-leaders and pioneers Discover successful practical solutions and novel approaches.
3. Build new partnerships Interact with global thought-leaders, visionaries and pioneers, and make new connections and build partnerships, in and beyond your sector or discipline.
Make a contribution!
Do you have solutions to the global challenges?
If yes, the Forum for Global Challenges call for contributions is for you.
We’re seeking proposals for contributions in the areas detailed below, from business, academia, the public sector and civil society, from all parts of the world.
Submit your contribution proposal here.
Deadline for proposals 3 December 2021.
The Forum for Global Challenges seeks solutions to the overarching challenges of climate change and inequalities. We are inviting proposals for contributions to several topics, with details on each topic provided in the call guide. In brief these are:
1. Green Economy
2. Restoring Nature
3. Future of Cities
4. Mobilities and Migration
5. Food and Nutrition Security
6. Health and Wellbeing
7. Education and Employment Futures
8. Gender Equality
9. Making Change Happen
Proposals for contributions can address more than one of these topics, as we recognise that many challenges lie at the intersections between them.
The contribution proposal is limited to 3000 characters covering the problem, solution and evidence.
Contributions can be on anything related to the topics above, but we particularly encourage submissions on descriptions, research, and evaluation of policy, societal and technical solutions that have been tried and implemented, whether successful or not, or on ideas for novel solutions, with the evidence and rationale underpinning them.
Selected contributions will be presented in the form of:
• Live Presentation (in person or virtual)
• Live Poster Presentation (in person)
• Digital Posters (this also can include a 3 minute recorded presentation)
Registration is not required to submit contributions, but registration will be required to present the accepted contributions (whether live or virtual).
Please visit the Forum for Global Challenges website www.ForumforGlobalChallenges.com for more information and to submit a proposal here. .