Dissemination Events

The program of the activities can be downloaded in pdf format here.

Dissemination Event

The first MathICs dissemination event was held in the Faculty of sciences of Rabat.

Professors of Mathematics as well as PhD students from different Moroccan Institutions were invited to the event. The event was honored with the presence of representatives from the Embassies of Spain and Portugal and Mr. Abdelilah Bennis, the representative for the higher education sector in Morocco.

The event was also honored by the participation of Mr. Mohammed Rhachi (President of Mohammed V University of Rabat), Mr. Mohamed Tahiri (Director of Higher Education and Pedagogical Development at the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education, Staff Training, and Scientific Research), Mr. Mohammed Regragui (Dean of Faculty of Sciences of Rabat), and Mr. Ismaïl kassou (vice president in Mohammed V University of Rabat).

Professor Luis Oyonarte, the coordinator of MathICs, has given a short presentation of MathICs, its main aims and their activities.

Mathematics has been identified as a “key lever for transforming STEM teaching and learning” (European Schoolnet, 2018). This is one of the messages from Professor Driss Bennis, the Moroccan coordinator of MathICs, who, demonstrated the importance of MathICs in the mathematics education system as well as the importance of using ICT to promote mathematics in Moroccan institutions.

Dr. Latifa Daadaoui, the coordinator of the National Erasmus Office in Morocco, gave a presentation that highlighted the great importance of the CBHE projects and in particular the MathICs project in the development of the education system in Morocco.

MathICs associates as well as the European members of the project have also participated.

Workshop of the European trainers' team

The meeting starts at 15:00 and ends at 16:45 in the Computer Room of the Mathematics department of the Faculty of Sciences of Rabat, with the attendance of Prof. Ana Moura Santos (online connection), from IST and in charge of the training courses in audiovisual content and e-learning, Prof. Fouad Bennis, from ECN and professor of the pedagogical approach module, Prof. José Carmona Tapia, from UAL, professor in charge of the training in GeoGebra software, and Prof. Luis Oyonarte, also from UAL and one of the professors who will develop the training course in SageMath.

The main objectives of this meeting would be to reinforce the uniformity of the structure of the training program, to establish a schedule of dates for the delivery of the training courses to be held at IST and ECN, as well as the 4th module of the training (the applications module), and finally, to agree on a joint format for this fourth applications module.

Workshop on the dissemination strategy of MathIcs

This activity was organized at the Seminar Room of Mathematics department of the Faculty of Sciences of Rabat from 16h45 to 18h00.

The workshop was an occasion to discuss and present the extent of MathICs dissemination strategy achievements to date. It was also an occasion to hear opinions and propositions from colleagues outside of the DC.

The Workshop was coordinated by Driss Bennis who started with a general presentation on the last news about MathICs website and then about MathICs dissemination strategy, including dissemination events and MathICs caravane. Then, a fruitful discussion was opened with the audience.

The program of the activities can be downloaded in pdf format here.

Dissemination Event

A MathICs dissemination event was held in the University Ibn Tofail of Kenitra.

Mathematics professors from different Mathematics departments of institutions belonging to Ibn Tofail University of Kenitra were invited to the event.

The event was honored by the participation of Mr. Mohammed Ebn Touhami (Dean of Faculty of Sciences of Kenitra) and Mr. Hassan Erguig (Director of Superior School of Technology of Kenitra).

Professor Luis Oyonarte, the coordinator of MathICs, has given a short presentation of MathICs, its main aims and their activities.

Professor Driss Bennis, the Moroccan coordinator of MathICs, has given a presentation on the impact of MathICs in the Moroccan Higher Education and especially in Mathematics teaching.

Professor Karima Selmaoui has given a presentation of the Ibn Tofail University of Kenitra and its contribution to MathICs.

Professor Brahim Fahid shed light on the role and importance of MathICs dissemination strategy. He mainly showed how MathICs dissemination plan envisions dissemination not only to present the MathICs project and its results, but also to increase awareness of the use of ICTs in mathematics education in Morocco which is the main purpose of MathICs.

Professor M’hammed Kahoui has given a presentation of Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech and its contribution to MathICs.

The event concluded with a wonderful tour of the facilities of the University of Kenitra campus.

Workshop on task optimization and goal achievement

The meeting starts at 11:50 and ends at 13:00 in the main building of the Ibn Tofail University in Kénitra.

The workshop was organized to inform and work on various points of MathICs management, and its structure was that of an open work table where each attendee could express his or her opinion, doubts, comments, etc. at any time.

It started with the intervention of the project coordinator, who informed all the members of the MathICs team about the financial management of the first training to be held in Almeria. In particular, they were working on solutions to alleviate the situation caused by the increase in the price of airline tickets with respect to those existing when the project application was formalized.

Afterwards, the coordinator announced the completion of the tasks related to the selection and adaptation of the facilities where the acquired material will be installed. He also presented the status of the bidding processes in all the partner institutions.

The issue of the training program that would take place in Europe was then discussed: the total closure of the Moroccan borders has greatly affected the schedule established in the original training program. However, the Steering Committee of the project has worked very hard to create new deadlines and to adapt the existing ones so that the face-to-face training can still be considered. This has led to the suggestion that the last module of the training (a module of applications of the knowledge and skills acquired in the program) could be delivered entirely online. This does not imply any reduction in the quality of the training, due to the characteristics of this training module, which make it ideal for distance learning. Of course this change requires the approval of the PMB of the project in the first instance, and subsequently the approval of the MathICs European Project Officer.

Workshop on financial reporting obligations

This activity was organized in the main building of Ibn Tofail University in Kénitra from 16h45 to 18h00.

The workshop was prepared and animated by Maria Fernand.

Before the meeting, all needed documents for financial reports were sent including MathICs budget repartition and the Workplan of MathICs.

The meeting then provided an opportunity to explain in detail the financial reporting process.

The slides of the presentation given by Maria Fernanda can be downloaded here.

The program of the activities can be downloaded in pdf format here.

DISSEMINATION EVENT

The third day of the first face-to-face MathICs dissemination events was held in Ecole des Mines de Rabat.

The event was marked by the participation of professors and PhD students of Mathematics from different cities of Morocco, apart from the partner establishments of the project.

After welcoming all the participants, Professor Moha CHERKAOUI, Director of Research and Cooperation-Mines Rabat, emphasized the place of mathematics in engineering schools and the involvement of the Ecole des Mines in the MathICs project.

Professor Luis Oyonarte, the coordinator of MathICs, gave a general presentation of MathICs : Its aims, activities and impacts.

Professor Najib Khalid talked about the Ecole des Mines in Rabat and its involvement in the MathICs project. He ended with a message of thanks and gratitude to the colleagues and professors of Mathematics who accepted the invitation and showed their great interest in MathICs. A special mention must be made to the colleagues of our associate “the Moroccan Society of Applied Mathematics” (SM2A) who come from different regions (Casablanca, Meknes, Marrakech…).

Moreover, the event included a presentation by Professor Hanaa Hachimi from the University Sultan Moulay Slimane of Beni Mellal. She showed, during her presentation, a video showing the beautiful landscape of Beni Mellal.

Afterwards, Professor Fouad Bennis participated also in this event by sharing his 20 years of experience as a Director of International Relations at Centrale Nantes. He thus spoke about good practices in the management of international relations and what institutions must improve to achieve the objectives of the internationalization strategy.

At the end, Mrs Natacha Moniz from IST presented in detail MathICs dissemination achievements as well as information on MathICs social media.

The event concluded with a tour of the facilities of the Mines School.

It was an occasion to visit tthe audiovisual rooms of the ENSMR which will be equipped under the budget of MathICs.