Rabat – Morocco and the European Union signed yesterday in the capital Rabat a program to support higher education, research, innovation and mobility with a budget of 490 million dirhams ($49 million).
The signing ceremony was conducted, according to the Moroccan official news agency, by the Moroccan Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Abdellatif Miraoui, and the European Union Ambassador to Morocco, Patricia Lombart-Cussac.
“This funding aims to promote higher education, research and innovation and make them international, and to enhance the mobility of doctoral students in European universities through financial grants to continue establishing human, academic and scientific ties between Moroccans and Europeans,” according to the Moroccan agency.
In press statements, the EU Ambassador said: “We support the efforts of Morocco, which has engaged in an ambitious national plan to make higher education more global and to develop research and innovation.”
Kosak explained that this is done by providing mobility opportunities for students, researchers and professors to complete their doctoral theses, in addition to keeping pace with the government’s ambitions to implement the national plan to accelerate the transformation of the higher education system in Morocco.
European diplomacy also highlighted the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Programme, which has attracted more than 9 million citizens worldwide.
She pointed out that “the new Moroccan students who received scholarships under this program, 27 in number, including 20 women, are highly qualified and will benefit from a two-year scholarship to continue their studies at the Master’s level in several European universities.”
Morocco is the second partner country in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Programme in the Southern Mediterranean region, with 181 Moroccan students distributed across 90 Masters courses who benefited from the scholarship in 30 European countries, in addition to twenty Moroccan universities that are partners in the programme.
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2024-07-07 12:28:09
