In a communiqué issued on December 23 this month, the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation urged all university presidents to adopt the distance education formula until further notice, in order to exercise caution, particularly in light of Morocco’s high incidence of confirmed cases of the new “Omicron” mutant.

The Ministry of Education asked all university presidents to instruct all university actors, including students, research professors, administrative, educational, and technical frameworks, to organize distance examinations, as well as scientific and cultural meetings, meetings, seminars, and events, in a communiqué published by 24 Hours Online.

The Ministry wants to adhere to all preventive steps to combat the epidemic threat, a preventive measure to safeguard the health and safety of actors in the higher education system, through the resolution.

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The Moroccan Financial Market Authority (AMMC), with the support of its Scientific Council, is launching the AMMC Award for Scientific Research to support and encourage academic research on topics related to the financial market.

The AMMC Award for Scientific Research aims to reward researchers whose work contributes to the advancement of scientific research in a number of areas, including: long-term financing through financial markets, liquidity and valuation of financial instruments, futures market and clearing house, asset management, the exact structure of financial markets, Fintech and financial market applications (ICO, crypto-assets…), as well as crowdfunding.

All PhD students and holders under the age of 40, of Moroccan nationality and affiliated with a Moroccan or foreign academic institution, or of a foreign nationality and belonging to an academic institution located in Morocco, are eligible to apply for the AMMC Award for Scientific Research.

Details regarding participation procedures can be found here.

The AMMC Award for Scientific Research, worth 50 000 dirhams, confirms the Authority’s keenness to keep pace with innovation in the financial market field and comes to strengthen and consolidate its ties with the academic world.

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