# Professional circles

_Programme · Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council · https://iranians.global/opportunities/programmes/professional-circles/_

Peer circles for professionals in medicine, engineering, law, academia, arts, technology and finance.

## Record

- **Platform**: Opportunities
- **State**: forming
- **Lede**: Professional circles are forming. Each circle is a place for peers in one field to share knowledge and support newcomers in it.
- **Peer meetings**: Regular meetings, online or in a Chapter's city, for people in one field.
- **Newcomer support**: Members who arrived earlier help those who arrived later understand the profession locally.
- **Shared knowledge**: Short guides written by members, reviewed before they are shared.
- **A route to the Academy**: Circles can bring work to the proposed communities of practice once the Governing Board decides on them.
- **Audience**: Practising professionals, Professionals re-qualifying abroad, Students in each field, Retired professionals
- **Step 1**: Interest: professionals register interest by field and country.
- **Step 2**: Formation: a circle forms once enough people in one field have registered.
- **Step 3**: Convenors: each circle chooses convenors under published rules.
- **Step 4**: Meetings: the circle meets and records what it agrees to share.

## Provenance

Records updated 2026-11-11. Every value keeps its measure, year, source and label (verified, secondary, to verify); unknown is shown as unknown. Verify, add a source or report this record on its page.

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## See also

- [Opportunities](https://iranians.global/opportunities/)