April 17, 2024
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
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
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
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 participants meet once more in Cairo to explore traditional crafts, community engagement and upscaling social enterprises.
October 22, 2023
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
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
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
Nine film screenings and nine dialogue circles took place in nine cities all over Egypt this spring.
April 11, 2023
DEDI Green Gate 2023 is well underway – with 24 selected green fashion entrepreneurs, scholars and innovators from Denmark and Egypt are set to meet, exchange and be inspired throughout the year.
