[Special Guest] Madame Najat Vallaud Belkacem leads a conference-debate on her book “The Society of the Vulnerable”

Madame Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, former Minister for Women’s Rights, then for Urban Affairs, Youth and Sports, and later for National Education, Higher Education and Research of the French Republic, and currently Director General of the international solidarity NGO ONE France, is the special guest of Euromed University of Fes (UEMF) this Friday, February 11. She will give, throughout this academic year, a series of lectures and seminars for students of Political and Legal Sciences and also for students of the Euromed Business School of the University.

Welcomed by the President of UEMF, Prof. Mostapha Bousmina, Madame Najat Vallaud-Belkacem visited the various research-innovation spaces and technological platforms, in particular the additive manufacturing (3D) platform, 4.0 technologies, the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics laboratories, the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) platform, the biotechnology-biomédical and Pharmacy laboratories, as well as the startup incubation space.

Madame Najat Vallaud Belkacem then gave a lecture related to her recent book “The Society of the Vulnerable – Feminist Lessons from a Crisis,” published in the Gallimard Tracts collection and co-produced with academic Sandra Laugier. Several personalities attended this lecture, notably the Wali and the President of the Fès-Meknès Region, the President of the City Council of Fès, the Governor of the Moulay Yacoub province, the Governor of the Taounate province, the presidents of the region’s universities, the Consul General of the French Republic in Fès, as well as UEMF students and academic staff.