Atos

Atos Campus Programme (DSAA)

Creating jobs in
IT in Morocco

CONTEXT AND CHALLENGES

Addressing a pressing need for IT
talent in Morocco

Morocco is in great need of IT talent. Both Moroccan and foreign companies operating in the country struggle to find experts with the digital skills they need. Such skills are highly prized by local and international competitors in a sector with an ever-growing demand for IT talent. This shortage is compounded by a mismatch between the IT training provided by Moroccan higher education institutions and the rapidly changing and evolving needs of companies.

To bridge this gap, the Moroccan subsidiary of Atos, a multinational IT and digital services company, launched the Atos Campus Programme. This six-month training and work experience programme seeks to increase the employability of young IT talent in Morocco’s information and communication technology industry. To encourage job creation in the country, Invest for Jobs supports the programme.

PROJECT APPROACH AND PROJECT GOALS

Technical training, cross-cutting skills development and work experience

The Atos Campus Programme proposes a two-stage learning experience. The first stage, which lasts three months, consists in providing the young participants with training in the areas of IT most sought after by companies in the sector, such as programming, integration of management and decision-support software packages, and quality assurance. The course content is taught by Atos experts who use practical exercises and real case studies to pass on their experience and knowledge to the young trainees. In addition to the technical subject matter, the participants also receive training in public speaking, problem solving, teamworking, leadership and the cross-cutting skills needed to build a successful career in the digital field.

Once they have completed this training, the young trainees are assigned to a three-months paid internship at Atos client projects in Morocco. These internships, which are supervised by Atos experts, give the participants the chance to apply what they have learned to real-life projects. It is an opportunity for them to become fully immersed in a business environment where they can experience working on the job for the first time and develop their professional networks.

At the end of the Atos Campus Programme, Atos selects the participants with the greatest abilities, technical expertise and motivation to join their team. Even if they are not selected by Atos, the trainees come away with the skills sought after by employers across the Moroccan IT market, an asset that will significantly boost their employability.

STATUS AND OUTLOOK

From training to job creation

Since it was first launched in May 2022, the Atos Campus Programme has been completed by two cohorts of around thirty participants each, around a third of them women. Atos hired a total of 31 graduates at the end of the programme.

The cooperation with Atos is part of the activities carried out by the Digital Skills Accelerator Africa (DSAA), an association of digital services companies of which Atos is a member. With support of Invest for Jobs DSAA aims to train and employ young African IT talent. The initiative with Atos was first launched in Senegal and subsequently extended to Morocco, Egypt and Côte d’Ivoire. Overall, more than 500 people have benefited from trainings in all four partner countries since November 2021.

Atos – a member company of the Digital Skills Accelerator Africa is supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in the framework of the Special Initiative “Decent Work for a Just Transition” of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Project details

Project status

Implementation

Project locations


Morocco Casablanca

Project objectives

IT training Create jobs

Sector

ICT & Digital economy

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Under the Invest for Jobs brand, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has put together a package of measures to support German, European and African companies in investment activities that have a high impact on employment in Africa. The Special Initiative "Decent Work for a Just Transition" – the official title – offers comprehensive advice, contacts and financial support to overcome investment barriers. The development objective is to work together with companies to create up to 100,000 good jobs and to improve working conditions and social protection in its African partner countries.

Partner countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal and Tunisia.

Find out more about our services for companies, universities, chambers and associations: https://invest-for-jobs.com/en/offers

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