Event : 18 May 2025
Partner : Youth With You Club of the Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofaïl University– Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
“ They told us to think outside the box, so we built our own.”
In a world navigating waves of uncertainty, economic fragility, unemployment, and shifting societal needs, there is a growing call not just for jobs, but for meaning. Some answer this call through medicine, science, art, or education. Others, through entrepreneurship, a path not more noble than others, but one uniquely defined by building what doesn’t yet exist.


Entrepreneurs are not born; they are carved out of vision, risk, and resilience. They are the individuals who identify needs, translate them into ideas, and mold those ideas into actions that serve, empower, and sustain. They are not competitors of traditional professions, but rather, they reflect a different way of responding to the world: by designing their own road where none previously existed.
It is in this spirit that on Sunday, May 18, 2025, the Youth With You (YWY) Club of the Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofaïl University earned first prize at the National Interclubs Entrepreneurship Competition, hosted by Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez. Centered around the theme “Reinventing a Traditional Profession into a Modern Start-up”, the competition brought together seven university clubs from across Morocco, each one a hub of creative minds ready to reshape the future.
For the YWY Club, the event was not just about winning; it was about camaraderie and teamwork. It was about creating. Their project reimagined a fading Moroccan craft as a socially conscious, technologically driven start-up. In doing so, they bridged tradition and innovation; not erasing the past, but honoring it by giving it a future. The judges praised the team for their clarity of purpose, cultural depth, and the sustainable scope of their vision.
More than a contest, the event became a “dreaming room”, a space where students dared to imagine, learn, and build. Here, entrepreneurial thinking was not about profit margins, but about mindset. It was about learning to see challenges as raw material and building solutions that matter.
This approach is deeply embedded in the ethos of Ibn Tofaïl University. The university doesn’t merely offer education; it offers possibility. By empowering student-led clubs like Youth With You, Ibn Tofaïl is cultivating environments where action follows vision, where critical thinking meets creativity, and where dreams are treated as blueprints for action. The university is laying the foundation for a generation of doers; those who don’t wait for opportunities but create them.
Student clubs are no longer just extracurricular; they are becoming launchpads for innovation. Within them thrive leaders, thinkers, strategists, and visionaries. They are spaces where failure is part of the process and experimentation is welcome. In a way, they reflect the very nature of entrepreneurship: adaptive, curious, brave.
The triumph of the YWY Club is a story of youth potential unleashed. But more importantly, it is a reflection of a larger movement, one where universities like Ibn Tofaïl are not just preparing students for the future, but inviting them to shape it.