From the 17th to the 23rd of May, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, through the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials for Sustainable Energy Technologies (LIMSET), organized the 4th edition of the Research and Development 20 (RD20) Summer School on the theme “Decarbonizing the Fertilizer Value Chain: Pathways from Innovation to Industrial Transformation” at its Campus in Benguerir.
The program brought together 100 participants, including researchers, institutional stakeholders, and industry experts from Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. The event focused on scientific and technological approaches to support industrial decarbonization and the global energy transition.
The Summer School covered topics including carbon management, renewable energy systems, hydrogen and ammonia, artificial intelligence applications, sustainable materials, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage. It combined lectures, workshops, panel discussions, and industrial case studies to link research to operational implementation.
As the first edition hosted in Africa, it reinforced international cooperation in clean energy, sustainable innovation, and industrial transformation, and discussed Morocco’s role in the global scientific dialogue on the energy transition.