Kick off Meeting

On March 8 and 9, the virtual MathICs kickoff meeting took place with more than 30 participants connected via the videoconferencing platform provided by UAL's Digital Content Center.

This meeting, scheduled to take place in Almería, was finally held virtually due to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. This initial meeting allowed the partners to get to know each other and to present and discuss the essential aspects of the project.

The Kick-off Meeting started with interventions of the Vice-Chancellor of the UAL, Julián Cuevas, the official of the European Commission associated with the project, Carla Giulietti, invited to the meeting, and the national coordinator of Erasmus+ in Morocco, Latifa Daadaoui, the meeting began. The coordinator of the project, Professor Luis Oyonarte Alcalá, presented the general structure and work packages of the project. All the representatives from Morocco and Europe then had the opportunity to make a brief presentation of the organization they represent. The program was punctuated by technical presentations and workshops in which the different work packages were explained and the first decisions of the project were taken. The second day was devoted to dealing with economic and financial management aspects, as well as the consortium's operating and internal communication agreements, through workshops conducted by the International Relations Service technicians of (UAL) Ana Fe Rodríguez Fuldauer and Mª Fernanda Rodríguez Heras. Special attention was also devoted to quality assurance and control in the workshop given by the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. In the afternoon, the first meetings of the committees and management bodies of the consortium of universities took place, which, after being constituted, held working sessions to make decisions and establish the most immediate milestones of the project.

1. Project Maganement board:

• UAL: Luis Oyonarte Alcalá and María Fernanda Rodríguez Heras
• ECN: Fouad Bennis and Caroline Kerello
• ULisboa-IST: Ana Pipio and Ana Moura Santos
• Synapstic: Francisco José Muñoz Berenguel
• UM5: Driss Bennis and Soumia El Hani
• UCA: M’hammed El Kahoui and Brahim Elafqih
• UIT: Karima Selmaoui and Brahim Fahid
• USMS: Said Meliani and Hanaa Hachimi
• ENSMR: Khalid Najib and Ibtissam Medarhri
• ONDA-AIAC: Abdellah Menou and Aicha Elrhali

2. Steering Committee: Luis Oyonarte (UAL), Fouad Bennis (ECN), Ana Pipio (Ulisboa-IST), Driss Bennis (UM5), M’hammed El Kahoui (UCA) and Khalid Najib (ENSMR).

3. Quality Committee: María Fernanda Rodríguez Heras (UAL), Caroline Kerello (ECN), Ana Pipio (ULisboa-IST), Karima Selmaoui (UIT), Youmna El Hissi (USMS) and Aicha Elrhali (ONDA-AIAC).

4. Dissemination Committee: José Carmona Tapia (UAL), Caroline Kerello (ECN), Ana Pipio (ULisboa-IST), Driss Bennis (UM5), M’hammed El Kahoui (UCA), Brahim Fahid (UIT), To decide (USMS), Ibtissam Medarhri (ENSMR) and Aicha Elrhali (ONDA-AIAC).