Prospects for future collaboration between MIO and the Moroccan Foundation for Science, Innovation and Advanced Research (MAScIR Foundation).

Following the first consultation meeting between the IRD representation in Morocco and the MASciR foundation in June 2019, the MIO delegated Yannick Combet-Blanc, microbiologist in the MEB team (Environmental Microbiology Biotechnology), to carry out a mission to explore potential partnership opportunities.

The meetings in this framework, meetings with the teams and visits to the platforms, made it possible to evaluate the respective scientific and technical potentialities and to identify the main points of convergence and complementarity.

The prospects for collaboration identified, particularly in the fields of microbiology, biotechnology or applied research and development, make it possible to envisage the setting up of joint scientific projects. Actions will be carried out very soon within the framework of a forthcoming visit of MASciR to the MIO in Marseille