The University Mohammed V did build up an innovation center in recent years. In 2017 it launched the SALEEM Erasmus+ project (2017-2020) together with partners from Morocco, France, Belgium, and Romania. The innovation center is able to develop prototypes and some promising start-ups did already emerge.

The Global Responsibility Unit at the International Office of the University of Cologne seeks to combine internationalization with a third mission in order to spread and transfer the knowledge generated by the University of Cologne in our local, regional, and global networks and contribute to global change. Global Responsibility projects of the International Office seek to link actions of global and local networks and communities in order to contribute to solve global challenges, such as climate change and migration.

The Gateway Excellence Start-up Center at the University of Cologne uses a holistic approach to promote start-ups from within the university and elevate transfer projects in excellent research at the University of Cologne. Gateway, funded by the Ministry of Economics of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, ties in with the university's Gateway Start-up Service, which has already been in place since 2015. The focus of a cross-faculty qualification program is to raise awareness among students and scientists for the topics of entrepreneurship. ADENIN is part of GATEWAYs internationalization strategy and to build up strong links to Africa and the MENA-region.

The ADENIN project allows the University Mohamed V to offer its students and international framework to develop their business ideas and build up a network with the start-up ecosystem of the Cologne-Rheinland region in Germany

The Co-Incubator Structure will allow to:

• Linking and supporting start-ups from students in Cologne with potential partners in Morocco and vice versa.
• Organizing workshops to transfer the needed knowledge to Moroccan and German partners
• Building up a stakeholder network and mentoring program in Rabat and Cologne
• The possibility for Moroccan start-up students to come to cologne and vice versa to further develop their business ideas and get early contacts to business partners in Europe.

The main outcomes of the ADENIN Project are:

• Improve start-up/entrepreneurial eco-system in Morocco and the entrepreneurial education of students, especially also female students
• Build up Innovative start-ups to create jobs in Morocco for young educated students
• Create Moroccan-German cooperation and networks

The main outputs of the project plan are:

• Enable the innovation centre to create professional business plans/valorizations for prototypes to increase number of assignments for the innovation centre by the industry
• Increase number of start-up with successful market entry (on Moroccan and European market), especially also of female start-ups
• Build up a start-up eco-system with stakeholders/partners from the industry