By: Michael Mortimer

In January, CLiGS’ International Fellow Selma Elouardighi led a 10-day field experience for online MNR students to the Moroccan cities of Rabat, Agadir, and Essaouira, with stops in Casablanca and BenGuerir.  The students formed four teams and examined projects related to sustainable industrial planning, climate resilient business planning, green cities, and corporate environmental responsibility.

Selma is also leading the Center’s Green Entrepreneurship Morocco effort, a Department of State funded project,  aiming to promote the emergence of start-ups in recycling and energy efficiency in the country of Morocco.  CLiGS’s in country partner, the Cluster Industriel pour les Services Environnementaux-Maroc has identified 15 start-ups, which will benefit from business coaching over the next year.  This project will also support the development of a cohort of green business coaches, by offering a combination of trainings-for-trainers and boot-camps events.  This will help build capacity for green business planning and development.

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