MA | IWA
Introduction
The Innovation Week in Africa IWA 2021 salon and competition, is organized by OFEED and is planned to take place in Rabat, Morocco from 8th to 12th of September 2021 under the Honorable Patronage of the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations IFIA, with the support of The Patent Magazine as the International Media Partner and the Oxford Business Group as the Research Partner.
The deadline for participation in this event is June 30th, 2021 and interested candidates must complete and send the participation forms online. Also, all the registration and payment processes can be done online using a desktop or any mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc.).

To make this event successful, many Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) and Partnership agreements was signed between OFEED and more than 20 international partners around the world, including The Patent Magazine and the Oxford Business Group, in order to support inventors efficiently, to better target and reach the global market, especially that, the Oxford Business Group is the global research and consultancy company with 25 years of experience and a presence in 37 countries.
Moreover, the Oxford Business Group is the Official Research Partner of over 750 conferences per year globally and their yearly economic and business reports are the leading source of country intelligence in the markets they cover.
Hence, this salon and competition provide extraordinary opportunities for all individual inventors, innovative companies, universities, and scientific research centers, to express their creativity and innovative capacity, recognizing the vital importance of global innovation and to encourage the inventors’ initiative.
IWA 2021 Benefits
The event benefits from many important partners also in Morocco, including scientific and entrepreneurial institutions from engineering schools, universities, and many high ranked Government authorities and financial institutions.
Allowed items to this event are inventions and innovations by posters, video presentations, prototypes or products, and participation is possible remotely.
Furthermore, the winners will receive numerous prizes, including organizers trophies, medals, and international partners special awards, and participants will benefit from 1.000.000,00 MAD (estimated benefits value to participants) and many other outstanding opportunities to promote and commercialize their innovations and inventions through the IFIA’s global network.
Creativity is an unavoidable necessity for all fields of study and industry, and it is important for all of us to recognize its high value in the whole society based on knowledge. This year, OFEED organize the Third edition of the International Salon IWA 2021, the Innovation Week in Africa which will be held in Rabat – Morocco.
This competition provides extraordinary opportunities for students, inventors, innovators, and researchers to express their creativity and innovative capacity to invent with their own innovative ideas, recognizing the vital importance of global innovation And to encourage the inventors’ initiative to continue to invent.
Partners
OFEED organize, under the Honorable Patronage of IFIA, the International Salon IWA 2021 and the Innovation Week in Africa which will be held in Rabat, Morocco.