Access before prestige
Tickets cover a third of the cost. The rest is raised so a scholarship place is a normal outcome, not an exception.
About WFIS
Young leaders in the rooms where it is decided.
The World Forum for Innovation & Sustainability was founded in 2019 by researchers and programme directors who kept hitting the same problem: the young people most affected by climate and policy decisions were rarely in the room where those decisions were made.
We are a non-profit registered in Switzerland, run by a team of nine across Geneva, Amsterdam and Nairobi. Our summits build youth leadership for the 2030 Agenda. Ticket revenue covers about a third of what a summit costs; partners fund the rest, which is how scholarship places exist at every event.
Small rooms, real leadership
Four sessions of twenty-four beat one hall of a thousand. Every delegate chairs, drafts and presents.
Accountable partners
Institutions that host a session commit to responding in writing to what delegates produce, within sixty days.
