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Three agreements signed at GITEX Africa and disclosed by Lamiae Benmakhlouf mark a decisive step in Rabat's roadmap for the hub network
Technopark Morocco has signed three important partnership agreements to strengthen the startup ecosystem of the North African country and to promote innovation and sustainable development.
These contracts, signed in the context of the technological fair of small and medium-sized innovative and "young" companies GITEX Africa, organized for the first time in Marrakesh from 31 May to 2 June, mark a decisive step in the implementation of the new roadmap of widespread technological park in Morocco, officially approved by the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform.
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The first agreement, signed with the MTNRA itself, the Université Polytechnique “Mohammed VI” and UM6P Ventures, aims to make the acceleration programs of the state university based in Ben Guerir more accessible to Technopark startups operating in areas such as Deep Tech, Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy.
The second contract, which also involves the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, Glovo, CDG Invest, the UM6P polytechnic and UM6P Ventures, will allow startups from the Maghreb nation to benefit from residency and mentoring programs within of the Glovo Startup Lab, providing development opportunities and access to their global network.
The third partnership agreement, between Technopark and KAOUN International, organizer of the GITEX Africa event, explores future collaboration opportunities in relation to GITEX events around the world, with the aim of promoting mutual growth and market expansion.
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“These partnership agreements represent a significant step forward for our ecosystem”Said Lamiae Benmakhlouf, CEO of Technopark Morocco.
“They demonstrate our commitment to creating synergies between the main players in the sector, offering unique opportunities to Moroccan startups and promoting technological innovation in the service of sustainable development. Together, we are determined to bring Morocco to the forefront of the international digital scene."
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Committed to a strategy of regional duplication of its development model, Technopark Morocco opened its own branches first in Casablanca in 2001, the inaugural one, then in Rabat in 2012, Tangier in 2015, Agadir in 2020 and Essaouira in 2023.
This will be followed by the new hubs of Fes, Oujda and Tiznit, three further cities of the Kingdom of Mohammed VI which will join the network of technology parks and innovation areas distributed throughout the territory.
The mission of Technopark Morocco is to assist the creation and development of companies in the ICT, Green Tech and culture sectors.
The management company, MITC Capital-Maroc Numeric Fund, is the result of a public-private partnership and is responsible for and dedicated to the management of Technopark Morocco.
So far, in the years since its creation, it has supported almost 900 successful innovative companies in Casablanca, more than 150 in Rabat and 100 companies in the Tangier Technopark.
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The Technopark today permanently hosts over 1.300 Moroccan startups and SMEs, almost 2.800 employees with an average age of less than thirty.
It is also the source of over 10 percent of the national ICT turnover (excluding the telecommunications sector) and of the "spontaneous germination" of over 60 new startups per year.
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