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To take part in the Forum as a project leader you need to apply to the Call for Projects. The Call for Projects to showcase your project at the Forum 2019 is now closed.

Our Call for Projects to showcase your project at the Forum 2019 is now closed. The deadline to apply to the Call for Projects was Friday 24 June at 6 pm, Paris time (CET).

We announced the projects selected to be showcased at the Forum on 18 June 2019.

All actors of global governance who are have a concrete initiative addressing one of today’s transnational challenges: 

• States 
• International organizations
• NGOs
• Companies
• Foundations
• Philanthropic organizations
• Development agencies
• Religious groups
• Trade unions
• Think tanks
• Universities
• Civil society at large.

Applications must be submitted either in French or in English.

Please note that applications submitted in any other languages than English or French will not be examined.

Projects are at the heart of the Forum:

1. Before the Forum, a Call for Projects is launched to identify concrete initiatives addressing one of today’s transnational challenges led by organizations from all over the world.
2. At the Forum, 120 projects are showcased in stands are discussed in debates with policymakers, elected officials, experts, practitioners and other stakeholders. The program of the Forum will revolve around the six major themes of the event as well as the categories of the projects.
3. After the Forum, 10 of the most relevant and promising governance projects are selected for scale-up.

At the Forum, project leaders will have the opportunity to:

• Test their project in front of diverse audiences in the Space for Solutions (through a pitch presentation, in an interactive debate, and by engaging with other participants at their own stand).
• Present their project in the Space for Debates (with world leaders, key policymakers, elected officials, and experts in global governance).
• Increase the visibility of their project (thanks to the presence of thousands of participants and extensive media coverage of the event).
• Connect with potential partners (including Heads of State and Government, leaders of international organizations, business executives, director of NGOs, philanthropists, experts, and journalists).

Project must meet the six following cumulative conditions to be eligible:

1. Be presented by an organization and not by an individual person.
2. Be managed by a minimum of two persons who can come at the Forum on 11-13 November 2019 in Paris.
3. Propose an innovative solution to address a transnational challenge either:
   1. By creating a new norm, a legal tool, or a “soft law” instrument (such as the establishment of global norms or new treaties, a proposal for ISO or global, standards, or the creation of an index, indicators or rankings for normative purposes).
   2. By building organizational capacities to address a transnational problem.
   3. By offering a new tool, a new solution, or new means to achieve these goals (“capacity-driven” projects or solutions).
4. Be related to one of the six themes of the Forum: Peace & Security, Environment, Development, New Technologies, Inclusive Economy, or Culture & Education.
5. Offer a cooperative approach: Ideally, the governance solution put forward by the project will involve various stakeholders.
6. Have reached a certain level of advancement: It can either be a project or an initiative that is already implemented. But it is essential to demonstrate that the project has already reached a certain level of maturation, both in content and progression, and that it is no longer in an “embryonic stage”.

The following projects are not considered as eligible:

1. Projects addressing solely national or local governance issues, with no scaling-up potential, or which cannot be replicable in other contexts or regions.
2. Academic research papers or presentation of new ideas lacking an organizational framework or concrete action plan to realize them.
3. Projects which are at an embryonic stage of conception or which seem unrealistic to be implemented soon.
4. Presentations of a whole program, general advocacy campaigns or fundraising campaigns, which do not propose a concrete action plan, solution or tool to tackle a global challenge.

For concrete examples, we invite you to discover:

• The 121 projects showcased at the Forum 2018.
• The 10 projects selected for support in 2019.

For more information, please refer to the Rules of the Call for Projects.

The relevance and overall quality of the projects will be examined considering the following criteria:

• The political relevance of the challenge tackled.
• The innovative character of the solution or tool proposed.
  • Does the project offer an innovative solution to respond to a global challenge or issue?
  • Does it suggest the creation of new norm, a new organizational framework, or a new tool to tackle the identified challenge?
  • Does is present a new way of rethinking the established order?
• The diversity and number of the stakeholders involved.
• The stage of development.
  • Has the project moved beyond the embryonic stage and reached a sufficiently advanced level of conception?
  • Is there an organization framework or action plan?
  • Are there clear means and tools to achieve its objectives?
• The feasibility.
  • Is the project realistic and sustainable in the medium and long term?
  • Are its objectives clear and reasonably achievable soon?
• The scope of the impact.
  • Does the project have the potential to make a difference (change of practices, legislative reforms, political commitments, strengthening the protection of beneficiaries, etc.)?
• The potential for development, expansions, or replication.
  • Does it have an impact beyond one locality or nation?
  • Can the project be replicated or translated in other regions or contexts (regarding its methodology, the issues addressed, and the results obtained)?
• The capacity to serve the common interest.
  • Is the project a vehicle for change?
  • Does it benefit the greater good?
  • Does it establish a good practice, a new norm, an organizational framework, or a regulation that has capacity to be of benefit for the majority at the international level?

Attention will be paid to a balance of:

• Geography (representation of all regions of the world).
• Organizations (representation of the diversity of actors of global governance).
• Themes (representation of the six themes of the Forum).

For concrete examples, we invite you to discover:

• The 121 projects showcased at the Forum 2018.
• The 10 projects selected for support in 2019.

For more information, please refer to the Rules of the Call for Projects.

Applications files must be composed of the following documents to be considered as complete:

• A complete presentation of the project (maximum 10 pages):
  • It must provide the necessary elements for examining the intrinsic quality and interest of the project.
  • It must demonstrate the innovative and/or effective solution that is put forward by their project to tackle a global challenge related to one of the six themes of the Forum.
  • It must review the genesis and content of the project, its state of development, its objectives, the extent of its impact (observed or expected), the concrete means or tools used to achieve the defined objectives, its capacity to provide a concrete solution to respond a current challenge, and its potential for replication or for scaling-up in order to reach more beneficiaries.
• A short presentation of the internal structure of the project (maximum 3 pages):
  • Governance.
  • Organization chart.
  • Financial situation and plan.
  • Partners.

In addition to these documents, project submissions must provide all the mandatory information requested in the application file: a short presentation of the project and of its organization, its current stage of development, strategic development goals for a one-year and five-year horizon, main contact, etc.

Please note that only application accompanied by a complete will be examined.

We retain the right to contact applicants to request any additional information deemed useful as well as to request any documents it deems necessary to bring to our attention.

For concrete examples, we invite you to discover:

• The 121 projects showcased at the Forum 2018.
• The 10 projects selected for support in 2019.

For more information, please refer to the Rules of the Call for Projects.

We define a ‘governance project’ as a project that propose innovative solutions to address a politically relevant global challenge and which are linked to one of the six themes of the Forum.

A governance project may be either:

• A normative project (creation of a new norm, a legal instrument, or a soft law instrument; creation of an index, a label, a classification, or a ranking).
• A capacity-building project: project that offers a concrete way to strengthen existing organization capacities (developing statistical tool enhancing access to good practices; investing in infrastructure; designing a framework for risk analysis or a process for anticipation and prevention risks).

For concrete examples, we invite you to discover:

• The 121 projects showcased at the Forum 2018.
• The 10 projects selected for support in 2019.

For more information, please refer to the Rules of the Call for Projects.

No. It is of charge to apply to the Call for Projects.

We announced the projects selected to be showcased at the Forum on 18 June 2019.

We do not respond to information requests on the outcome of applications until the entire selection process is complete.

Upon announcement of the selected projects on 18 June, project leaders are notified of all the steps and diligences to confirm their participation in the Forum 2019 and organize their trip to Paris.

If your project has been selected, you need to confirm your participation in the Forum before 24 July 2019.

You will be informed of the specific procedure to follow (timeline included) as well as of the steps that must be taken to confirm your participation.

You will need to communicate the names of the persons who will present the project at the Forum. The project team must be composed of a minimum of two persons and a maximum of three persons.

Please note that attention will be paid to gender balance, most notably among the project representatives coming to Paris. If this objective cannot be met, project leaders will be required to provide an explanation of the reasons for this.

You need to send for validation the information and visual elements that will be displayed on your stand, by respecting the timeline and complying with the fixed deadlines.

Upon announcement of the selected projects on 18 June, project leaders are notified by email of all the elements that need to be submitted for validation to proceed with the set-up and customization of their stand, by respecting the timeline and complying with the fixed deadlines.

Each project team can invite a maximum of five guests to take part in the Forum.

Once you confirmed your participation, you need to communicate the names of your starting 25 July.

After this deadline, we will not be able to guarantee the participation of the guests.

To finalize their confirmation of participation in the Forum, project leaders shall pay a participation fee of €2,000. This participation fee covers:

• The set-up and customization of their stand. Additional equipment (optional) may be ordered by project leaders, upon request, and at the expense of project leaders.
• The enjoyment of specific spaces and services on site: WIFI, insurance, lunches, coffee area.
• 3 project leaders accreditations for the entire duration of the event, giving access to the entire program of the Forum.
• 5 participant invitations (2 day- Pass).
• At least 1 public speaking (pitch) slot, to orally present their project, in a dedicated area.

Should selected project leaders be are unable to covert, directly or though external funding, the expenses related to their participation in the Forum, they may approach the Paris Peace Forum to explore financial support possibilities. Any request for financial support shall give rise to a specific and motivated request, processed in accordance with the procedure set by the Paris Peace Forum.

We will carefully consider each request and may ask for additional documents or clarification.

We cannot guarantee to be able to satisfy all requests for financial support. In some cases, partial financial support may be offered.

We will give priority to requests related to projects operating under limited financial resources, and/or to requests from project leaders who will have to mobilize a significant amount of resources to come to Paris.

Yes. For your stay in Paris, we recommend looking for information on the Paris Tourist office.

Lunchs will be provided on-site on 12 and 13 November, for project leaders only.