Cells · Risk Academy
Learning-by-doing cells
Cohorts, study groups and labs that learn by doing real risk work together. A completion record is a learning record: not a licence to practise and not an academic credential.
- Cell types
- 12
- each a ready template to start from
- Active cells here
- None yet
- Form the first cell
- To form and run
- Free
- open access, on shared services
Start here
Form a cell, join one, or host cells
What a cell is
A small team with a mission, a host and a record
Mission-bound
A cell forms under a host organisation for a defined mission, place and time, with the outcomes it aims for.
Roles you can show
Every role in a cell becomes a credential the member holds, and the competence it needs is shown by evidence.
Decided and recorded
The cell chooses its own decision rules and agreements. Every action is a recorded event anyone can verify.
Local to global
A cell works at one scale, local, national, regional or global, and links with other cells into networks of cells.
Cell types
Start from a type that fits your work
Every type is interdisciplinary: it names the expertise and disciplines it draws on, so people from any field can find it and ask to join.
Learning cell
Course cohort cell
Learners who take a course or pathway together and keep each other on track.
- Capacity development and technical assistance
- Work, skills and occupational safety
- Human development, poverty and inequality
Research cell
Research practice lab
Learners who work on a real research question with a mentor and publish what they find.
- Risk governance and institutions
- Multi-hazard and compound risk assessment
- Foresight and futures
Data and observation cell
Data practice lab
Collects and cleans open data for a real project while learning the methods.
- Earth observation and Earth system data
- Data infrastructure, compute and semiconductors
- Atmosphere and air chemistry
Engineering and digital cell
Tools and models lab
Builds small tools and models for the Academy's projects, reviewed by their maintainers.
- Digital public infrastructure and digital identity
- Cybersecurity and digital resilience
- Reliability, safety and resilience engineering
Youth, campus or chapter cell
Campus chapter cell
A student team at a university or college that studies, volunteers and runs events together.
- Capacity development and technical assistance
- Community resilience and inclusion
- Work, skills and occupational safety
Community emergency response team (CERT)
Campus emergency response team (CERT)
Students and staff who prepare for and give first response on their campus.
- Preparedness, emergency and crisis management
- Community resilience and inclusion
- Early warning and anticipatory action
Field and operations cell
Exercise practice cell
Plans and runs tabletop exercises to practise what was learned. The result is a learning record.
- Early warning and anticipatory action
- Disaster risk reduction
- Humanitarian action and displacement
Review and assurance cell
Peer review circle
Learners who review each other's work against the course criteria and record the feedback.
- Risk governance and institutions
- AI assurance and audit
Policy and advisory cell
Policy brief practice cell
Practises writing evidence briefs on a real question, labelled as learning work.
- Risk-informed public policy
- Risk governance and institutions
- Foresight and futures
Sector cell
Sector learning cell
Professionals from one sector who learn how its risks connect to others.
- Health
- Food
- Water
Standards cell
Standards reading group
Reads and comments on the open standards as part of a learning pathway.
- Risk governance and institutions
- Digital public infrastructure and digital identity
- AI assurance and audit
Finance and risk transfer cell
Risk finance learning lab
Learns how parametric triggers are designed and tested, on worked examples. Nothing is priced or arranged.
- Disaster risk finance
- Actuarial science
- Insurance, reinsurance and protection gaps
Find a cell
Cells are forming
Active cells on this network. Filter them, or draw an area on the map, then open one to see its mission and ask to join.
No cell is active here yet
Cells appear here once their core areas are done. Form the first one: it takes about two minutes and starts as a draft that only its members see.
How cells work here
Open, peer to peer and protected
A public good
Forming and running a cell is free, outputs are open access by default, and nothing here is priced.
Peer to peer
Members work directly with each other and with other cells, under the rules they adopt together.
Trust from records
Nobody is trusted by default: roles are credentials, decisions and agreements are signed records, and each can be checked.
Protected
Members under 18 are never listed in public and always have an adult safeguarding contact. Small numbers are never shown in public.
Across the networks
Cells under every organisation
Each network forms cells in its own field. A cell can work with cells of the other networks.
GCRI
Nexus Competence Cells
Institutionally hosted, mission-bounded expert units. They localise and operate risk capabilities, keep a record of everything they do, and incubate new work with partner institutions.
GRF
Field and practice cells
Working groups, practice communities and forum teams. They turn expert dialogue into shared readiness outputs across the councils, the sector and national forums and the annual programme.
GRA
Alliance, sector and operations cells
Teams of member institutions and experts who build shared understanding of systemic risk in financial services. They prepare evidence for finance readiness and never lend, underwrite, rate, invest, advise on or arrange transactions.
Nexus Standards
Standards development cells
Teams that draft, test and correct open standards in the open, with the technical committees. A validator report is evidence for review, never a conformance claim, and each jurisdiction decides what it adopts.
The Global Risks Index
Index evidence cells
Teams that bring evidence, corrections and local knowledge to the country risk indexes. An index value is not a rating, a risk signal is not verified risk, and every contribution is reviewed in public.
Observatory Protocol
Observation and protocol cells
Teams that design, build and run observation on the open Observatory Protocol, from local sensors to shared data. Conformity support is evidence for review, never a certification.
KCO
Kurdish community cells
Teams of members who organise where Kurdish communities live: city chapters, language circles, heritage, civic voice and mutual support. Cells are for adults; younger members can follow them but not join.
IDCDC
Iranian diaspora cells
Teams of members who organise where Iranian diaspora communities live: city chapters, language circles, heritage, civic voice and mutual support. Cells are for adults; younger members can follow them but not join.