The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
Research Nexus is published by The Global Risks Forum (GRF), a Swiss association and public-good institution that leads institutional dialogue and the governance of shared risks within Nexus Consortiums. This page sets out the platform's subject mandate, who answers for it, the professional status of its work and what it does not do. In short, Research Nexus convenes research dialogue and records it; it does not publish science, fund research or certify anyone.
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Research Nexus is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Forum for research and evidence as well as governance and institutions. Its mandate covers institutional research dialogue, comparative learning and evidence interpretation without taking over GCRI scientific publication authority. GRF publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is established and works at service level R0, information and enquiries.
Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.
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For mandate, publisher and status, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water, framed on Europe; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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The mandate is institutional research dialogue, comparative learning and evidence interpretation, without taking over the scientific publication authority of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).
Bringing researchers and institutions together on questions none can answer alone.
Comparing how different countries and organizations use evidence on risk.
Transparent discussion of how findings apply to real decisions, and with what uncertainty.
Research Nexus studies the passage from a research finding to an institutional decision: how questions are commissioned, how evidence is synthesised and contested, and how uncertainty survives the trip into a briefing note. Its subject is the science-policy interface itself, including the norms that govern it, such as the INGSA principles for science advice and the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.
GRF convenes and governs programmes. It does not regulate, finance, procure or certify, and hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings. GRF leads on leadership, institutional dialogue and the governance of the Nexus Universe annual programme. Research Nexus applies that role to research: it hosts dialogue, keeps records and returns unresolved questions to the research agenda.
The platform's community is policy scholars, social scientists, international researchers and evidence reviewers. Its outputs are research dialogue records, methods seminars and peer learning briefs. Scientific findings are published by GCRI through Nexus Reports.
See trust, rights and status for how records are kept and corrected.
Research Nexus is an established platform. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. Records appear on this site as each one is reviewed and released.
dialogues@globalriskforum.com. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
| Conflict of interest | A situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review. |
| Research governance | The rules, institutions and practices that decide how research is commissioned, reviewed, shared, corrected and taken up, from funder policies to institutional codes. |
| Science-policy interface | The arrangements through which scientific evidence reaches public decisions, including advisory committees, chief scientific advisers, academies and intergovernmental assessments. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.