Official launch of the national research, development and innovation support program (2025-2028)
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The Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation proceeded, Monday April 07 in Benguerre, to the official launch of the National Research, Development and Innovation Support Program (PNARDI).
This program is part of the implementation of a paraphotic framework convention, on this occasion, by the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Azzedine El Midaoui, and the Chairman and CEO of the OCP Group, Mostafa TERRAB, to make research and innovation of essential engines of national development through calls for projects in priority themes.
With funding of 1 billion (mm) of dirhams, through a joint fund by the ministry and the OCP group, spread over four editions between 2025 and 2028 and including 200 million dirhams oriented specifically to the mobilization of Moroccan skills residing abroad in the national research and innovation system, this program aims to stimulate scientific and technological research, while forming a new generation of young researchers Ready to meet the challenges of tomorrow and mobilize and diversify the resources and means essential to the financing of the national scientific research system.
It is also a question of establishing a consistent and regular investment in favor of excellent scientific research capable of hoist Morocco to the rank of major nations in terms of research, innovation and training.
The Pnardi, the fruit of a partnership with the OCP Foundation, the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) and the Mohammed VI University Polytechnique (UM6P), is part of the implementation of high royal orientations aimed at doing scientific research and innovation of essential levers of sustainable development, national competitiveness and international influence.
It also responds to royal directives, calling for the strengthening of human capital and a greater mobilization of Moroccan skills residing abroad, by promoting their involvement in the national research and innovation ecosystem.
In perfect coherence with the provisions of the framework law n ° 51-17 relating to education, training and scientific research, this program aligns with the strategy of the ministry aimed at revitalizing research and innovation and to put them at the service of the socio-economic progress of the kingdom.
Pnardi pleads for a partnership approach to co -financing between the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation and the OCP Foundation and the collaboration of the CNRST and the UM6P for its efficient deployment.
It is also distinguished by an integrated and mobilizing approach, inscribed in a regular temporal dynamic and in perfect adequacy with the national priorities and the challenges of sovereignty of Morocco.
Pnardi aims to strengthen scientific excellence in several strategic sectors, including water, extraction, treatment and valuation of phosphates and their derivatives, health, food security, renewable energies, human and social sciences.
Through this partnership, the UM6P will use its living laboratories, its world -class research infrastructure, and its network of international partnerships to accelerate the positive benefits of this new fund.
This first edition of the Pnardi is available in three complementary sub-programs; Namely, the RD Young Researchers’ Program (IBN Battouta), which supports the emergence of new generations of scientists, the Program RD Priority Program (IBN Albanna) targeting strategic axes with high innovation potential and the technology transfer program (Nefzaouia) dedicated to strengthening the link between research and economic needs by promoting the creation of wealth of scientific advances.
Remember that three specific conventions relating to the declination of these three sub-programs were signed during the official launching ceremony of this program which took place in the presence in particular of the Secretary General of the OCP Foundation, Abdelhadi Sohaib, of the director of the CNRST, Jamila El Alami, of the president of the UM6P, Hicham El Habti, eminent personalities of the academic world and research, as well as representatives of national institutions.
