Cadi Ayyad University is engaged in a creative project ‘’ Innovation City of Marrakech” which is operational  and built on an area of 5000 meters square to help promoting research within companies and encouraging the creation of innovative companies. Innovation City of Marrakech aims at making Marrakech a technological city, clean and culturally rich with economic and societal themes of high caliber bringing an added value, also to reflect upon the ways, means and concrete measures to foster the emergence of an innovation environment with regards to the market’s needs.

Introducing the concept of « Smart University » based on a digital strategy that incorporates new pedagogical systems, which seeks to digitize courses and promote collaborative research. In the same vein, UCA has also opted for the dematerialization of administrative procedures and financial management for greater efficiency and better governance.