The NIYA speech of our coach of the Moroccan national team, Walid Regragui, went beyond the locker rooms, conferences and grounds to land, Thursday, May 11, on the stage of the Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI) and further motivate the sense of leadership of its students.
As part of the ESRI 2030 Pact, the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation in partnership with the Mohammed V University of Rabat, organized, Thursday, May 11, 2023 at EMI-Rabat, the 3rd edition of LeaderSHE Talks under the theme: “Leadership in the face of change: Combining resilience and agility”.
Several eminent personalities took part in this year’s edition, including the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Miraoui, university presidents, experts in the field of female leadership, as well as a large participation of actors from the university and university institutions of the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region, teacher-researchers, administrative and technical staff and students.
The event aroused the interest of the general public, in particular with the intervention of Walid Regragui, coach of the Moroccan national team, Sanaa Lahlou, UNIDO country representative in Morocco, Leila Doukkali, national president of the AFEM, Nadia Ben Bahtane, High-level sportswoman, Mohamed Elmanjra, Founder and President of the Elmanjra Academy to close with Selwa Zine, President of the El Baraka Angel Association.
As usual, Walid Regragui’s “NIYA” speech continues to impress the coach’s many fans. The intervention of the coach of the Moroccan national team during the LeaderSHE was long awaited by the participants, all attentive to his motivating words.
” Some will try to push you and others will try to knock you down. ‘Dir Niya’ is not just a belief and does not mean that I will get up in the morning and it’s good I will succeed, it’s a lot of work, you have to have self-confidence“, says Regragui.
Based on his personal experience, he continues: As a manager, I didn’t win many games in my career and I didn’t win all the titles, but losing titles gave me the necessary experience for the Cup. du Monde, to find out what it’s like to make a group win. Self-confidence is important, work, the environment and you must not let go.
” Today, it is extraordinary how Morocco is developing. The place of women in Morocco has evolved and this is important because you are the elite of Morocco, you will be able to progress the country, you may be future mothers or not, you will also, whether you succeed or not, pass on values to your children” , he added.
For the president of the University Mohammed V of Rabat, Pr Farid El Bacha, this edition represents ” a very moving moment with the participation of Walid Regragui who means a lot to us and to the world too“.
Pr El Bacha explained, in a statement to MoroccoLatestNews, that ” we understood that our country is the country of all possibilities and that we must believe in our young people and support them in their projects. I say the Morocco of all possibilities, the University of all possibilities, where others could not and did not know, Morocco was able and knew under the enlightened leadership of our august Sovereign“.
For her part, Selwa Zine makes it known that ” the objective today was to make all young university students want to go further, to resist because women are also capable of achieving their goals and achieving their dreams.“.
She told MoroccoLatestNews that ” the dream, for me, is to help people in the mountains, the students who go to isolated schools, the mountain population. I hope it will be the dream of many young men and girls and it is thanks to this that we will improve the daily life of the mountainous landlocked areas and that our Morocco will be better for it.“.
It should be noted that the “LeaderSHE” initiative aims to strengthen women’s leadership capacities among students, teacher-researchers and Ministry managers. In addition, the “ESRI 2030 PACTE” project aims to build human capital capable of supporting the dynamics of development in Morocco, launched in 2022 by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation. in partnership with Moroccan universities.