The Open World Initiative (OWI) is about preserving, fostering, and indeed developing the idealism of an open world economy and society for the decades ahead.

The creation of OWI is to ensure the progressive renewal and rejuvenation of the Evian Group, its long-term sustainability, the need to communicate more effectively with younger generations, as a means to gain greater understanding and commitment for the multilateral rules-based system of global economic governance, to provide support to the next generation of leaders and to gain insights and inputs from younger members to the core Evian Group activities.

Find out more about OWI's mission, core principles and internship.

Membership
Are you interested in joining the OWI community and participating in the very dynamic OWIFOR discussion platform? Please proceed to the registration form.

Do you still have questions? Find the answers either in the attached FAQ document OWI (in format)

Past OWI Activities:

- Governance and Society: the role of the private sector in the transition to democracy – September 06-08, 2006, Kiev, Ukraine

- Global Youth & A Global Community – March 21, 2006, American University in Cairo (AUC)

- Paola Ghillani – March 14, 2006, Buffet de la Gare, Lausanne

- The Challenges of Youth in the 21st Century: Is Globalisation the Answer? – March 31-April 3, 2005, Istanbul

- Greater Europe : Global Challenges - Regional Responses – August 26-29 2004, Bled, Slovenia

- AIDS : We can win the battle – June 3, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland

- Bringing electricity to rural Bangladesh – May 5, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland

- Cotton and the WTO – March 16, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland

- Young Evian Core meeting – June 13-15, 2003, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

- Breakfast Meeting in Hong Kong – March 20 2003, Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong

- Steering Committee Meeting – March 1-2, 2003, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

- Young Evian Facing Global Challenges: Perspectives to 2014 – September 20-22, 2002, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

Pictures from the First Plenary Meeting:

Related document:
- OWI Core Principles (in format)