Conclusions

To conclude, Morocco has evolved a lot in term of scientific
research. Moroccan leaders understood the huge importance of this
matter, and made effective actions and reforms over more than ten years.
Obviously, many lacks still exist, but many efforts are made over
both public and private sectors. Today, Universities are allowed to make
their proper research according to their own policies. The government
works in parallel to link universities with private sector and companies as
potential investors. Moreover, Morocco has a particular vision in two
ways: In one hand attract external investors through projects as
“Programme Emergence”, and in a second hand develop local projects.
Morocco is planning its future through technological innovations and
local development. However, few unanswered questions are still
remaining. If political leaders are aware, what about students? Because
some of them represent future generation of leaders, I thought that it was
essential to know about this issue. Indeed, I conducted a survey with 30
AUI students. The results are the following:






These results reveal that students, who have in addition, research centers
at disposition (I mean Al Akhawayn University), do not really care about
scientific research in Morocco and do not have necessary knowledge
about this issue. In this study that I have conducted during a whole
academic semester, I found many solutions possible. First, make students
sensitive about scientific research and its opportunities, then encourage
them to pursue their studies through PhD promotion. For me, the best
key to promote scientific research is to develop it at the source, which
means university. Of course, many of them have already done a good
job by creating centers of development and making partnerships with
many institutions like AUI, but there are so many things to do and the
most important in my mind would be the promotion of the field.