The MAScIR Foundation is a non-profit association related to Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Created in 2007, it aims to promote and develop technological research centers in the fields of materials and nanomaterials, biotechnology, microelectronics, and life sciences. Its work is oriented towards applied research and innovation to meet market needs.

MAScIR has cutting-edge scientific platforms and a high level of human capital. Its researchers operate in different innovative and complementary fields. From mines to renewable energies, via health and transport, the research carried out at MAScIR focuses on the current and future needs of industry, agriculture and economic operators in general.

The MAScIR Foundation also aims at promoting the results of its research and its invention patents, through technology transfer, the creation of spin-offs and start-ups in order to contribute to the emergence in Morocco of a knowlwdge based economy.