By Oumaima Moho Amer
Publication Date: 2026-11-03 22:12:00
Casablanca – The International University of Rabat (UIR) and Cisco inaugurated Morocco’s first Cisco EDGE Center today, opening a facility that will focus on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, training, certification and research.
UIR President Noureddine Mouaddib described it as the first center of its kind in North Africa and Francophone Africa.
The center forms part of Cisco’s global Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program and marks the first Moroccan initiative under the global scheme. Mouaddib said the project followed two years of work with Cisco teams in San Francisco.
It will serve students across Morocco, not only those enrolled at UIR, as well as faculty members, researchers and companies. He described its mission as “training, certification, innovation and research.”
Mouaddib said the center represents the next stage in a university strategy that began in 2010 with programs in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and Big Data. UIR’s…
