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The African Union Agenda 2063 as well as the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set common goals and vision for Africa. To make progress towards these goals, Africans must move beyond past trends and beyond the paths taken by other regions of the world. In this context, UNESCO and the OCP Foundation signed an agreement, in October 2017, aimed at implementing an innovative project entitled “Imagining Africa's Futures (IAF)” and which aims to coordinate reflection on the future of Africa and strengthen the continent's foresight capacity. 

In order to realize this common ambition, a first center was created at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, within the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences. This center develops research and training programs in foresight, ranging from awareness raising to Executive Education and serves as a reference center for practitioners of foresight and Future Literacy in Africa and beyond.

Its foresight capacity building program is structured into 4 pillars:

  • Awareness component
  • Academic component (degree courses)
  • Executive component (certifying training)
  • Communication and networking component.

partners

partenaire UM6P
partenaire unesco
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Impact

  • Launch of the pilot phase of Future Literacy research with the participation of UM6P
  • Participation of UM6P in the conference organized in Trento by UNESCO and the University of Trento on the Future of Africa
  • Organization of an awareness workshop on the literacy of the future on the theme “the African citizen of the future”
  • Remote adaptation of 2 introductory foresight modules and planning of Executive training sessions of the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences
  • Organization of a remote master class introducing foresight on the theme “Towards a new educational situation”
  • Organization of a webinar for the initiation and on-boarding of UM6P professors from the different UM6P Schools on the theme “Role and place of foresight in academic research, a perspective” Launch of work for the establishment of a web platform dedicated to the IAF project
  • Signature of a UM6P-CNAM framework agreement for the establishment of joint supervision and launch of a call for applications for doctoral students in foresight
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