| Mohammed VI Polytechnic University | |
| Native Name: | French: Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique Arabic: جامعة محمد السادس متعددة التخصصات التقنية ⵜⴰⵙⴷⴰⵡⵉⵜ ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴷ ⵡⵉⵙⵙ ⵚⴹⵉⵚ ⴰⴳⵜⵉⵇⵏⵉ |
| Other Name: | UM6P |
| Motto: | L’école de la vie |
| Motto Lang: | fr |
| Mottoeng: | The school of life |
| Endowment: | $213.5 million (2023)[1] |
| President: | Hicham El Habti |
| Provost: | Driss Ouazar |
| Established: | 2013 |
| Address: | Lot 660, Hay Moulay Rachid |
| Country: | Morocco |
| Campus Type: | Main suburban campus in Benguerir with antennas in Rabat, Laâyoune, and Paris |
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P;) is a Moroccan non-profit private research university. Its main campus is located within the Green City of Benguerir. Centered on African development, the university is oriented towards applied research and innovation and is engaged in regional economic and human development. The university also has antennas in Rabat, Laâyoune, and Paris.[2] A suburban campus is set to open in El Jadida in 2034.[3] The university hosted its first cohort of students in 2013 before being officially inaugurated on January 11, 2017.[4] Since then, the university has continued to expand to become a leading research institution for collaborations between Africa and Europe. UM6P also hosts the most powerful supercomputer in Africa.[5] The UM6P federates a number of schools and research institutes, some of which predate the existence of the university. The university has numerous international partnerships with universities around the globe, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia Business School, Max Planck Society, HEC Paris, Mines ParisTech, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, McGill University, and Sciences Po.[6]
The university emerged as part of the "Green City" project, a major urban development project located just outside the historical city of Ben Guerir with the aim of creating a model city of sustainability, with a special interest in promoting research, education and development in Africa.[7] In 2012, the construction of the university was launched and began operating one year later, in 2013. Over the course of the following years, numerous Schools and research centres were founded or integrated into the university.
In 2021, UM6P launches Africa's most powerful SuperCalculator for scientific research and innovation. The power of the African Supercomputing Center - with a capacity of 3.15 petaflops at a rate of three million billion operations per second - gives Morocco and more broadly for the African continent the opportunity to breakthrough in scientific research and innovation in all areas.
The UM6P's mission and research focus is strongly focused on advancing research and innovation as well as promoting development in Africa. It collaborates with several institutions in African countries and has set up experimental research platforms and applied research laboratories with partner universities across the continent. Among UM6P's prominent research laboratories is MSDA.[8] MSDA stands for Modeling, Simulation and Data Analysis and specializes in mathematical and phenomenological modeling, numerical simulation and data analysis.