CCoA Creating Competences in Automation: Talents and Industry 4.0 Projects for Moroccan Manufacturing

SADASC conference: presentation of CCoA projects planned

The CCoA is presenting itself at one of Morocco’s most important technology conferences. At the SADASC in Marrakech on 24.09.2022, the initiative, which is supported by industry and development cooperation organisations, will present how it has supported industrial knowledge transfer to Morocco since the beginning of 2021, thus contributing to future-proof employment and sustainable development. 

The highlight of this comprehensive presentation by the CCoA is the presentation of the best projects that students at the country’s higher and vocational education institutions have developed on behalf of and in collaboration with industry in the fields of automation and Industry 4.0 in recent months. PhoenixContact, one of the leading companies in the electrical industry in Germany, had made its PLC platforms available for this purpose. In total, more than 500 students and around 350 final projects were created PhoenixContact will also award prizes to outstanding projects and provide their teams with financial support to further develop their ideas.

Without the active participation of numerous university lecturers and companies from Morocco, the uniquely broad participation in this form would not have been possible. The prerequisite for this was that the CCoA had already implemented a well thought-out concept of train-the-trainer measures since summer 2021. The first teachers from Morocco’s most renowned universities who took part in the measures were already able to use the technological and didactic skills they had gained to train students in state-of-the-art technology for Industry 4.0 and to supervise them in practical projects. To this end, the CCoA team was able to successfully win over more than 50 companies and institutions from Morocco and Germany to assign tasks for the projects.

Interested companies can talk directly to participating students and also university teachers at the conference in Marrakech. The best projects will be exhibited in the foyer of the conference centre in Marrakech. The CCoA website also features profiles of the students, whose skills and digital competences represent a unique talent pool for the development of industrial capacities in Morocco. The CCoA team in Morocco and Germany also offers to refer relevant industry enquiries to students and universities.

The CCoA’s organisation of this event is supported by the Special Initiative on Training and Employment of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which is implemented, among others, by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. In Morocco, the Special Initiative is implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

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Participation in the CCoA panel in the SADASC framework is free of charge.

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