The Department of Development and Environmental Studies of the UP Faculty of Science and the Université Hassan II de Casablanca have successfully developed mutual cooperation. After study visits of Czech students in Casablanca, the Dean Abdellatif Komat and Prof Fouzi Mourji of the Moroccan university visited the Faculty of Science in Olomouc. The cooperation is supported by the Erasmus + KA107 program.
“This is my first time in the Czech Republic and I really like it here. People are open-minded, in the same way as we try to be. We used to work a lot with Western Europe, but currently we have been focusing on cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe,” Dean Abdellatif Komat said. “We want to give our students the best education possible, so that they will be able to better integrate into the job market after completion of their studies,” added Prof Fouzi Mourji. “This is my second year teaching already at the UP Faculty of Science and my experience with Czech students has been very positive.”
Faculty Dean Martin Kubala and Vice-Dean for International Relations Miloslav Dušek welcomed the guests from Morocco. “During our meeting our guests presented their university, we were informed about the cooperation with the Department of Development and Environmental Studies, and possible future cooperation with the Departments of Ecology and Informatics,” Miloslav Dušek said.
As part of their stay, Abdellatif Komat and Fouzi Mourji also visited the Department of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Arts, the Sluňákov Environmental Education Centre, and toured Olomouc’s historical town centre. “Our guests are very interested in environmental issues because it is an important subject for Morocco. They want to strengthen education in that field. Students who studied at the Faculty of Science last year devoted their diploma theses to this topic, too,” added Simona Šafaříková, from the Department of Development and Environmental Studies.
Seven Moroccan students have already studied at this faculty, and currently there are three Moroccan students at UP.