Call for Solutions
The 2025 Call for Solutions is open through June 1st!
International cooperation is key to overcoming global challenges and ensuring lasting peace. Since 2018, the Paris Peace Forum’ Solutions Hub has showcased over 560 innovative projects with the goal of fostering innovative multi-actor solutions to diverse global challenges.
Our annual Call for Solutions is an opportunity for all actors offering concrete initiatives that address today’s most pressing challenges to join the Forum’s dynamic community. Selected projects to be showcased at the Forum are offered the unique opportunity gain international visibility, speak about their work during an event session, and network with key experts and decision-makers in addition to potentially growing their initiatives through the Forum’s Scale-up Program.
2025 CALL FOR SOLUTIONS THEMATIC PRIORITIES:
- Harnessing Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience
- Fostering Green Transitions, Access to Energy, and Critical Minerals
- Reinforcing Local Peacebuilding
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Peace and Stability
- Broadening Access to Sustainable Agricultural Practices
- Investing in Children as a Catalyst for Development
- Driving Digital Public Infrastructure and AI Impact for SDGs
The 2025 Selection Committee will be announced soon.
Everything you need to know about the Call for Solutions
The eighth edition of the Paris Peace Forum will be held in Paris on 29 – 30 October 2025 and represents a unique opportunity to move forward your project or initiative. In case of selection, your project team will benefit from international visibility and exposure thanks to a dedicated space, speaking slots to share your work and/or views on the global governance issue you are addressing, and networking opportunities to meet and discuss with experts and decision-makers in your domain.
All selected projects will receive the 2025 Paris Peace Forum label and be granted the chance to apply for a year of extended support as part of the Forum’s Scale-up Program
The 2025 Paris Peace Forum will be dedicated to projects and initiatives from around the world addressing one of the following themes:
- Harnessing Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience
- Fostering Green Transitions, Access to Energy, and Critical Minerals
- Reinforcing Local Peacebuilding
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Peace and Stability
- Broadening Access to Sustainable Agricultural Practices
- Investing in Children as a Catalyst for Development
- Driving Digital Public Infrastructure and AI Impact for SDGs
The Forum is pleased to host two virtual information sessions about the 2025 Call for Solutions on the following dates :
- Session #1 – 7 May 2025, 15H – 16H CET – Register: https://forms.gle/JPnyoLKmrCbDUBm37
- Session #2 – 28 May 2025, 16H – 17H CET – Register: https://forms.gle/9GabHCNhfXikM82C8
Recordings of the information sessions will added to this section ahead of the Call’s deadline on 1 June 2025.
The Paris Peace Forum does not finance projects (including projects presented at the event and projects supported as part of the SCUP program).
To be considered by our Selection Committee, applications submitted in the framework of the Call for Solutions must meet the following seven criteria:
- Be submitted by an organization and not an individual.
- Be managed by at least two people who confirm availability to prepare and present the project throughout the entire duration of the Forum (from 29-30 October 2025).
- Be aligned with one of the priority themes of the 8th edition of the Paris Peace Forum.
- Present a level of advancement: at least in the pilot phase with some implementation underway (may be preliminary), not just in the design or start-up phases.
- Involve a specific, tangible, and distinct action, which excludes the following: academic research or work in the form of ideas without a plan for implementation; general frameworks or organizational programs rather than specific solutions.
- Do not apply with the aim of requesting funding from the Paris Peace Forum.
- Have an international dimension, or, at least, for local or national initiatives, involve actors or resources from other countries, and possess potential for credible international action.
The Selection Committee will then assess each eligible submission taking into account the general quality of the project (feasibility and coherence, credibility and potential, impact) as well as the relevance of the project to the priorities and approach of the Paris Peace Forum (universality, global or international relevance, link with global governance, cooperation-based approach, diversity of actors involved, innovative, new, or unique dimension).
The Selection Committee will also consider geographic, functional, and thematic diversity in its decision-making, in line with the theme and priorities of the 2025 Paris Peace Forum.
All organizations (states/governments, civil society, companies, international organizations, research institutes, etc.) offering a concrete project or initiative to a contemporary global challenge invoked in one of the themes of the 8th edition of the Paris Peace Forum can apply.
You can apply to the Call for Solutions by filling in this online form. Only completed and submitted submissions will be considered.
Organizations may submit multiple applications as part of this Call for Solutions.
Applications must be submitted either in French or in English.
Our call for solutions is open until 23:59 PM CET on 1 June 2025.
Applying to our call for solutions is free of charge.
Should your project be selected, you will be asked to pay a participation fee of €1200 pre-tax to cover opportunities for visibility and exchange during the event, as well as access to specific areas and services reserved for project leaders. Please also plan to cover the costs of your travel to and from Paris.
The Paris Peace Forum may provide grants to selected project leaders who are unable to cover the costs of participating in the Forum (€1200 participation fees, transportation, and/or accommodation).
Priority will be given to requests submitted by project leaders working in organizations of modest financial means, especially those from countries in the Global South, whose participation in the Forum would require a significant mobilization of financial resources.
All candidates will be notified on a confidential basis via e-mail of the Selection Committee’s decision before the end of July 2025.
The cohort of selected projects will be officially announced in late-August 2025 on the Paris Peace Forum website.
Throughout the selection process, the Paris Peace Forum and the members of the Selection Committee will not respond to any requests for information about the application procedure or results.
For any additional information, please read the Rules and Regulations of the 2025 Call for Solutions or write to project@parispeaceforum.org