You can get involved by becoming a member, partner, investor or employee. To be an employee, you must answer an ad. To become a member, partner, investor, you must fill out an involvement form available on the website and be sponsored by an associate member who will submit your request to the board of directors.
The Circle of Excellence has founding members, associate members, adherent members and honorary members.
Why join us?
The added value of your involvement
The growth of the Circle of Excellence will not be sustainable without the commitment of diaspora entrepreneurs and the support of credible investors and partners: whether academic partners or private sector companies, national and international institutions.
Nevertheless, we ensure: our philosophical independence and initiative, not to be linked to a political party, not to be financially dependent on an individual or an institution, to remain within the framework of our values.
Support one of our challenges
- Donate to an account (a new bank account will be opened)
- Participate punctually to the realization of one of our projects by bringing your skills
- Become a member of the Circle of Excellence
Transparency on the use of donations will be made through an annual report available to members and donors.
In order to allow you to justify your donation of 50€ or more to the tax authorities, we will send you a tax certificate during the first quarter of the year following the donation.
As an added value
Apart from your individual ambition or success, you participate in a collective success project.
You meet and exchange with entrepreneurs in a more convivial and less stressful environment.
You meet and interact with people from the African Diaspora who have a certain aura. Many have succeeded in their careers after brilliant studies, and others have started from scratch to make their place.
You get access to an advertising reach: the target audience is mainly made up of people with high economic potential, the elite of the Belgian diaspora.
The presence of your Logo or a reserved space on our promotional documents: posters, leaflets, invitations, as well as on our website.
You are invited to our official events with the opportunity to speak.
Adherent member
Afull member is any person admitted in this capacity by decision of the board of directors or of the body to which the board of directors is authorized to delegate this function. It will bear the title "Member of the Circle of Excellence" or "Lid van de Kring voor Uitmuntendheid".
Becoming an adherent member allows you to first discover the functioning of the circle, the different tasks, before deciding to become an associate member and therefore the possibility to be part of the board of directors.
This title allows you to do so if you are a project owner and wish to meet investors and partners involved in one of our projects.
Honorary member
An honorary adherent member is any person admitted in this capacity by decision of the board of directors. It will bear the title of "honorary member of the Circle of Excellence" or "erelid van de Kring voor Uitmuntendheid".
The Board of Directors of the Association may also appoint, from among the adherent members, honorary members, for example certain personalities who appear to it to be remarkable by their honour or their commitment to the defence of its values, and award them the title of "Président d'honneur du Cercle de L'excellence", "Vice-président d'honneur du Cercle de L'excellence", "ereVice voorzitter van de Kring voor Uitmuntendheid", "ereVice voorzitter van de Kring voor Uitmuntendheid".
Adherent members and honorary members do not benefit, either individually or collectively, from any management or representation power of the Association, except for protocol. They are therefore in no way responsible for the management of the Association or held as such. Consequently, the titles they hold are exclusively honorary or protocolary.
Associate Member
Wfter the approval of your application for involvement by the Board of Directors, you must pay your one-time admission fee of 600 euros and your annual membership fee payable over a maximum of six months, from the time of your registration, in order to become an associate member.
The amount and frequency of the membership fee is set by the General Assembly, on the proposal of the Board of Directors (BOD), without exceeding (annually) 500 € for associate members, 100 € for adherent members (individuals) and 5000 € for legal entities.
An associate member may become an associate member after at least six months of activity, after approval of its written application by the Board of Directors, subject to payment of its annual associate membership fee plus the one-time admission fee.
You now have the right to vote, to consult the documents of the Circle, in the member's area of the website and to benefit from the advantages reserved for members.
The conditions for admission, exclusion and resignation are defined in the internal rules and regulations of the Circle.
Partner, investor, sponsor or patron
The growth of the Circle of Excellence will not be sustainable without the commitment and support of credible investors and partners, be they individuals from the academic community, private sector companies or international institutions.
The realization of the Circle of Excellence's ambitions requires support from both a financial and operational point of view. We therefore also want to build a network of experts, investors and partners to support the Think Tank in this direction.
We would like to have two types of partners and investors: one-offs linked to a current activity and/or majors associated with all our activities and who will be able to take part in our working meetings.
Investors and partners will sign an agreement with the Circle of Excellence.
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