As part of the strengthening of its partnership with national actors in training and higher education, AMSSNuR signed, on April 5, 2021, a cooperation agreement with the International University of Rabat (UIR) which aims to combine the efforts of the two parties to implement some axes of the theoretical and practical training strategy in the fields of nuclear and radiological safety and security, carried out in 2019 and presented to its Board of Directors.

Signed by Mr. Khammar Mrabit, Director General of AMSSNuR, and Mr. Noureddine Mouaddib, President of the UIR, this agreement aims to set up safety and security training programs in order to respond in part to the needs identified both at the national and regional levels, particularly in Africa, which are estimated at more than 14,000 people for the next five years for Morocco.

On this occasion, the two parties confirmed their commitment and willingness to design initial and continuing education programs in accordance with national regulatory requirements and IAEA standards and to explore together the possibility of creating an African academy in safety and security, in particular through chairs, a doctoral school, executive master’s degrees and professional licenses adapted to national and African needs.

In this context, Mr. Noureddine Mouaddib, underlined the capacity of the UIR and its agility to develop pedagogical and training engineering to put the various programs under the agreement, to deploy them also on e-learning platforms and to welcome Moroccan and foreign students from the start of the 2021/2022 academic year.

For his part, Mr. Khammar Mrabit reiterated AMSSNuR’s commitment to communicate to the UIR the regulatory texts governing radiation safety training, the syllabi established by the IAEA for each type of training and to involve the latter in the implementation of the identified programs.

Closing the signing ceremony of the agreement, Mr. Khammar Mrabit stressed the importance of the agreements put in place by AMSSNuR with the various parties concerned to strengthen skills at the national level in the fields of nuclear and radiological safety and security and to respond to the requests of African countries represented in the network of nuclear safety authorities that he has chaired since 2019.