Rabat-Das French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) strengthens his long-term cooperation with Morocco by visiting this week.
The President and CEO of Ird, Valérie Verdier, accompanied by science director Philippe Charvis, will visit Morocco from February 16 to 20.
The institute’s officials will meet With important partners in Rabat, Marrakech and Ben Guerir to improve research cooperation.
The visit will be an opportunity to start an international research program on the role of gender in education and the professional sector in Africa, which is coordinated by the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat next to IRD.
The initiative is co -financed by the cooperation and the cultural activity service of the French embassy and Francophonie University Agency.
The agenda of the delegation including Meeting with Morocco’s Minister of University, Scientific Research and Innovation, Azzedine El Midaoui, as well as discussions with Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and the International University of Rabat (UIR).
An explanation of the institute said This visit builds up with Morocco at the decades of IRD and aims to renew framework agreements with several large partners. This includes the National Center for Scientific Research and the universities of Mohammed V in Rabat and Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech.
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Ird Morocco cooperation began in the 1960s and initially concentrated on soil sciences and hydrology before expanding to areas such as demography, business, oceanography and agronomy, as in the explanation mentioned.
Since the IRD, his office has set up his office in Morocco in the early 2000s, has made it possible to wider partnerships and implemented various multidisciplinary programs.
These joint initiatives address Topics that are strategically important to achieve sustainable development goals (SDG) and at the same time to agree with the priorities of Morocco according to his national plan to accelerate the change in the university, research and innovation ecosystem (PACTE ESRI 2030).
The general principles of the partnership were formalized by an intergovernmental agreement on the IRD’s cooperation activities in Morocco, which was signed in 2008 and has been regularly renewed since then.
