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The business Programs for people
with refugee and migrant experiences
Our VISION is an inclusive society, where everyone has access to the same opportunities to fulfill their potential.
Our MISSION is to provide people with refugee and migrant experiences tools to obtain entrepreneurial competences and a professional network in order to participate equally in the local ecosystem.
PROGRAMS - APPLY NOW
Supported by the SINGA Incubator program in 2025, Olga launched an innovative business producing handmade glasses designed in Switzerland from recycled wine bottles.
Olga Restrepo - Glask
Supported by the SINGA Accelerator program in 2024, Isabella is developing BioInka, a company that distributes premium snacks from Peru. Since participating in the program, she has found a new investor through the SINGA network and created her first job.
Isabella Medina - Bio Inka
Our impact
people supported, 46% had a refugee permit
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of participants in the Incubator program made their first sales within 3 months in 2024
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new businesses founded, 64% by women
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Our News
Report of the National Conference
Following the first National Conference on Asylum and Entrepreneurship held in November 2025, SINGA is publishing a report outlining the key challenges identified, alongside concrete recommendations proposed by leading stakeholders in the sector. This document serves as a roadmap for strengthening the recognition of entrepreneurship as a driver of economic and professional inclusion, which will hopefully serve to expand collaborations and research on the topic.
If you would like to get involved, please contact us by email at:
info@singaswitzerland.ch.Report of the National Conference
SINGA Study: Asylum & Entrepreneurship
In 2025, SINGA conducted a nationwide study to better understand the motivations and challenges faced by refugees starting businesses in Switzerland, using an online survey and a focus group.
The findings, based on responses from people with refugee exeprience living in Switzerland who have already launched a business or are in the process of doing so, are now available in this report.
THE CHARTER
On February 20 2026, World Day of Social Justice, SINGA, together with Capacity and Powercoders, and with the support of Der Gewerbeverein, is launching the Charter for the Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees in Companies for the first time in Zurich and German-speaking Switzerland. Register for the event HERE
On World Refugee Day – 20 June 2024, SINGA together with Yojoa and Decouvrir have launched the first Integration Charter for people with migration and refugee experiences in Switzerland in Geneva.
SINGA MICROCREDIT
In Switzerland, many entrepreneurs with refugee or migrant experiences face major obstacles in accessing financing.
To address this concrete need, SINGA has launched in September 2025 a microcredit project. This initiative is aimed at alumni entrepreneurs of our programs (participants in the Incubator, Bridge, or Accelerator programs within the three years prior to applying), who have already launched a business and are seeking funding between CHF 5,000 and CHF 10,000.
Our community
The SINGA community is driven by a shared vision of an inclusive society where talent from all cultures and backgrounds is celebrated and every member participates in a peer-to-peer learning approach.
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