A $6 Million Strategic Partnership for 2025–2027
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, the OCP Foundation, and UNESCO are entering a new operational cycle of their collaboration, extending from 2025 to 2027, with a budgetary commitment of $6 million. Signed by Mostapha Terrab, Chairman of OCP Group, and Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, the agreement marks a new stage in a collaboration anchored in long-term vision and operational pragmatism.
Built on a joint implementation mechanism between UM6P and UNESCO, supported by the OCP Foundation, the initiative reflects a shared objective to integrate education, science, technology, and cultural knowledge as interdependent levers of sustainable development on the African continent.
The collaboration will unfold across five workstreams: operationalizing the Rabat African Consensus on AI; enabling academic mobility and co-production through Campus Africa; integrating the General History of Africa into university curricula; expanding the Maou’root initiative on heritage governance; and piloting ecosystem restoration projects linking biodiversity and economic resilience.
This renewed phase reflects a common position: development outcomes in Africa are shaped less by isolated projects than by the architecture connecting knowledge, institutions, and operational design.
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