June 28, 2024
DEDI Green Incubator puts green fashion and furniture Egyptian brands on track to success

Incubator Concludes

DEDI Green Incubator's first round concludes with 14 sustainable fashion and furniture startups on the road to a green future
April 17, 2024
DEDI Green Incubator Participants 2024

Incubator Innovators

DEDI Green Incubator aims to help put early-stage startup companies on the road to becoming a successful, scalable, and growing venture. Through mentorship, workshops, and field visits in Denmark and Egypt, the program helps entrepreneurs gain valuable skills and knowledge, and identify potential partners and investors as well as connections to get their sustainable products into markets. The program targets sustainable fashion and furniture designers with common tracks and specific tracks for each field.
April 16, 2024
Dr.Vishv Priya Kohli, professor at the Copenhagen Business School, inspires participants with a session on intellectual property rights in the European Union. (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Green Incubation

DEDI Green Incubator aims to help put early-stage startup companies on the road to becoming a successful, scalable, and growing venture. Through mentorship, workshops, and field visits in Denmark and Egypt, the program helps entrepreneurs gain valuable skills and knowledge, and identify potential partners and investors as well as connections to get their sustainable products into markets. The program targets sustainable fashion and furniture designers with common tracks and specific tracks for each field.
December 22, 2023
The Danish design students, young Egyptian designers and workers at the Pinocchio Factory celebrate their success at the end of the workshop in Damietta (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Heritage to circularity

Young designers from Egypt and design master’s students from Denmark bring 15 stools to life – drawing inspiration from Danish and Ancient Egyptian design with a sustainable future in mind.
December 19, 2023
Danish-Egyptia Furniture Exhibition Stools

Circular stools

More than 200 visitors came to explore the 'Bilingual Design for Circularity' exhibition, meet the young designers, and attend the interesting panel on the role of heritage in design and circularity at The Grand Egyptian Museum for the Bilingual Design for Circularity exhibition on Friday December 1st 2023.
November 13, 2023
DEDI Green Gate 2023 participants choose materials during a workshop in Green Fashion in Menoufia. (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Connection to material

DEDI Green Gate participants meet once more in Cairo to explore traditional crafts, community engagement and upscaling social enterprises.
October 22, 2023
Professor Nicolai De Gier, of the Royal Danish Academy, shows participants the famous “Chair Room” at the Academy

Closed loop design

The ten Egyptian young furniture designers are on a week-long study trip in Copenhagen as part of DEDI’s Design for Circularity program – in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy, Designdustry and Pinocchio Furniture. The program brings together these designers with Danish Master’s students enrolled in the ‘Furniture Design – Products, Materials and Contexts’ course at the academy to be immersed in both Danish and Egyptian design traditions to inspire them in their own designs of a stool which will be produced throughout the project. In its fourth iteration, the program this year is taking on a new challenge: to create their designs according to the principles of circularity.
September 13, 2023
DEDI Green Gate participants explore the students’ end of year exhibition led by associate professor Else Skjøld of the Royal Danish Academy. (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Green is the new black

How can we transform an industry plagued with a massive carbon footprint into one that inspires people without harming the environment? The 23 Danish and Egyptian green fashion designers, entrepreneurs and students explore this question together in Copenhagen.
May 24, 2023
Design for Circularity participants 2023

Meet the eco furniture makers

After four successful rounds of Bilingual Design – bringing Egyptian and Danish designers together to design and produce furniture, this year we are excited to announce that the project is taking on a new challenge which is to focus on Design for Circularity. Meet the participants here.
May 5, 2023
Dialogue circle after 'The Recycling Myth' screening in Creativa Hub Ismailia (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Green films on tour

Nine film screenings and nine dialogue circles took place in nine cities all over Egypt this spring.