Science Week 2025: Imagining, innovating, transforming tomorrow's world

A global event to explore scientific advances and their impact on society.

Artificial intelligence, sustainable agriculture, innovation: a week of exchanges to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) announces the 5ᵉ edition of Science Week from February 17 to 23, 2025 on its Benguerir campus. Placed under the theme “Shaping the Future”, this edition invites the global scientific community to explore the issues and perspectives that will shape tomorrow's world.

In keeping with its commitment to innovation and knowledge sharing, UM6P intends to make this week a space for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, exploring the synergies between basic sciences, emerging technologies and societal issues.

This year's event will focus on a number of themes: Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, agriculture and agroecology, the professions of tomorrow, new materials, medicine and the challenge of AI, innovation, the mine of the future, the anthropocene, the challenges of sustainability, the question of human intelligence versus the machine, and the intersections between science, ethics and philosophy. Through a series of conferences, workshops and round tables, researchers, experts and entrepreneurs will explore scientific advances and their impact on society, the economy and the environment.

Artificial Intelligence will be addressed from the angle of its applications in health, education and the economy, with debates on predictive medicine, new therapies, and the transformation of professions in the face of the rise of automation. Sustainable agriculture, an essential pillar of food security, will highlight advances in agro-ecology, soil management and innovations enabling more efficient, environmentally-friendly production. Finally, Innovation, the driving force behind progress, will be addressed from a technological, social and environmental perspective, in order to identify sustainable solutions to global challenges.

Renowned speakers will include : Jacob Jones, world expert in phosphorus; Reda Hamedoun; architect Tarik Oualalou; Philippe Esposito, expert and entrepreneur in the field of green hydrogen; Mark Bürki, algorithmicist and financier; Richard Lilly, promoter of mining 5.0; medical professors Hassan Chelly and Intissar Haddiya; Tony Nijm, thinker on disruptive innovation; Daniel Andler, mathematician and philosopher

paleontologist Abderrazak El Albani, discoverer of the oldest forms of multicellular life on Earth; Choukri Ben Mamoun, Yale professor and infectious disease expert; Edward Bugnion, co-founder of VMware and professor at EPFL; Bernard Lahire, specialist in the social sciences of life; and Émile Servan-Schreiber, specialist in collective intelligence.

In addition to lectures and round tables, the program will also include interactive sessions where students can present their research and projects, encouraging their active involvement. The “From Idea to Market” competition will highlight the impact of innovation on the world of business and entrepreneurship. In addition, the Science Village will provide a dynamic space for exchange, where UM6P departments will showcase their research work, highlighting local solutions to global challenges.

“Science Week is an opportunity to rethink our relationship with science and innovation. It offers a space for exchange to rethink the world of tomorrow, a world where science and innovation are at the service of human progress and the preservation of our environment, a world where Africa has a major role to play,” emphasizes Hicham El Habti, President of UM6P.

After having explored subjects as varied as Transitions, Transhumanism and Complexity, this 5th edition is taking a proactive approach, proposing concrete, sustainable solutions to the major challenges of the future. This event is open to registration on the following website: https://scienceweek.um6p.ma/