Projects

We are excited to announce the launch of the O-REMIT project that has been funded by the Belgian Government and implemented by partners; The International Organization for Migration (IOM)- Belgium and Luxembourg, Ondernemers voor Ondernemers vzw(OVO), Nationale Bank van België and ZidiCircle. This project aims to offer cost-effective alternatives for remittances and opportunities for investment of savings by tracking  diaspora remittance flows from Belgium into Morocco, Senegal, and the DRC, creating  awareness among remit senders and receivers on these corridors on remittance …

We are very excited to launch our first Diaspora-Ghana GREEN SME Matchmaking forum, an initiative of Zidicircle and SNV Ghana. SNV, under the GREEN Incubation and Acceleration Programmes, is supporting businesses and start-ups who are at early stages of development (pre-revenue) to make better use of natural resources, be energy efficient, properly manage waste and pollution, among others, and operate profitable business ventures in the Ashanti and Western regions. Zidicircle is an an Amsterdam based Diaspora startups incubator based in Amsterdam that’s …

We are thrilled to announce that Zidicircle– an Amsterdam based diaspora incubator has partnered with Deutsch Connect and AG Career Hub -both German-based, to launch the diaspora entrepreneurship Bootcamp and incubation programme in Germany. Started in Amsterdam about 5 years ago, Zidicircle launched the diaspora entrepreneurship Bootcamp, a semi-annual diaspora training and incubation programme aimed at supporting migrants, diaspora and under-represented founders with resources to enable them to launch businesses in the Netherlands or in their Country of Origin. The programme has so far trained over …

Promoting and facilitating diaspora entrepreneurship in Ghana and Ethiopia On September 7th, 2019 we kicked off IOM’s entrepreneurship by diaspora for development with a group of 40 entrepreneurs from Ghana & Ethiopia. The ED4D project aims at encouraging the Ghanaian and Ethiopian diasporas residing in the Netherlands, or Dutch entrepreneurs in partnership with the diaspora, to engage themselves as entrepreneurs for the development of the private sector in Ghana and Ethiopia. Zidicircle is honored to conduct the training to enable …