EconomyStatus: Planned
Belgo Congo Business Forum
A proposed business forum between Belgium and the DR Congo.
Transforming our historyinto a shared future
Belgo Congo Role (BCR) is an independent non-profit organisation and an international cooperation platform working to strengthen constructive relations between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
BCR fosters dialogue, education, research, innovation, cultural exchange and shared-prosperity initiatives.
- Countries united
- 2
- Fields of action
- 8
- Year founded
- 2026
Our eight fields of action.
The eight fields in which BCR intends to act. None of them stands apart from the other seven.
Who we are
An organisation, not a commemoration committee.
Belgo Congo Role is an independent non-profit organisation and an international cooperation platform. It works to strengthen the relationship between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo through dialogue, innovation, reconciliation and shared prosperity.
Two countries share a history neither of them wrote alone. A hundred and forty years later, that history still weighs on what Belgians and Congolese can build together: universities barely talk, capital moves badly, and memory remains contested ground.
What we work on
- Explanation
- Historical responsibility
- Shared prosperity
- Innovation
- Economic cooperation
- Education
- Youth
- Diaspora
- Peace
A hundred and forty years, five dates.
The relationship between Belgium and the Congo has a precise chronology, and ruptures nobody disputes. We set it down as it is. What follows is not a trial: it is the necessary starting point for everything BCR undertakes.
1885
Private property
On 1 July, Leopold II proclaimed the Congo Free State, recognised four months earlier by the Berlin Conference. The territory covered 2,345,000 square kilometres, seventy-six times the size of Belgium. It did not belong to the Belgian state. It belonged to the king personally, and would for twenty-three years.
Reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice.
Our ground
Two countries,
one shared ground.
Thirty thousand square kilometres on one side, two million three hundred and forty-five thousand on the other. Thirty-six provinces and the Brussels-Capital Region. BCR intends to work across both territories, favouring neither.
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Vision 2050
Where do we want Belgium and the Congo in twenty-five years?
Objectives for the next twenty-five years, not achievements of BCR. The organisation intends to help reach them.
- 01Academic exchange programmes
- 02Joint research centres
- 03Investment platform
- 04Business incubators
- 05Cultural exchange
- 06Youth leadership academy
- 07Smart cities
- 08Green economy
Projects
What BCR proposes to build.
Planned projects. Each card shows its status.
YouthStatus: Planned
Youth Leadership Program
Training young Belgian and Congolese leaders.
InnovationStatus: Planned
Innovation Bridge
Technology collaboration between labs and startups.
MemoryStatus: Planned
Historical Dialogue Initiative
Conferences, university work and shared research.
FieldStatus: Planned
Village Development Program
Water, schools, health centres and agriculture.
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