Benguerir - This year's MSN Energy Week, held at UM6P Benguerir from October 20-24, took place under the theme “Innovate for a Sustainable Energy Future.”
The event aimed to create a platform that fosters collaborative initiatives between businesses and research institutions to develop new technologies in key sectors, such as advanced batteries and renewable energy.
Accelerating these innovations is essential to addressing contemporary energy challenges and promoting the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The event kicked off last Sunday and has featured a diverse lineup of events each day. These included “Young Researchers' Day,” which had a competition for emerging talents in the energy sector, to a symposium that brought together some of the world’s leading experts in energy, particularly in lithium-ion battery research.
“It's an event that gathers a number of industries in Morocco and researchers from the Material Science, Energy, and NanoEngineering department (MSN), as well as researchers from other institutions within the University of Morocco, to first of all, showcase what we have here at UM6P, what we have achieved in terms of innovations and new solutions for the energy transition,” Jones Alami, Director of the MSN department stated to Morocco World News.
The event featured internationally renowned experts, including Jud Virden, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environment at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington USA, and Dr. Martin Winter, Professor of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion at the Institute of Electrochemical Technology in Münster, Germany.
Participants showcasing their projects related to the event’s themes also had the opportunity to present and explain their work to attendees.
Among the projects were “Greening the Leather Industry,” led by Professor Zineb Kassab and Dr. Mehdi Mennani, and “Development of a Nanotechnology-Based Filter for Drinking Water,” presented by Hamza Ladib, Muhammad Muaz Suhaib, Ihsane Kassem, and Otmane El Ouardi.
The MSN Energy Week 2024 helped bring together different stakeholders, encouraging the exchange of ideas and the formation of strategic partnerships.
By driving the development of innovative solutions, it played a crucial role in tackling today’s energy challenges and supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy.
UM6P’s MSN Department is a hub for cutting-edge research and innovation.
Its focus spans both fundamental and applied projects, with key areas of research including energy transition, smart and functional materials, as well as circular materials.
