Created in 2011, under the initiative of the Moroccan Ministry of Energy, Mines and Sustainable Development and the public and private Moroccan key actors in the energy sector, IRESEN, as an applied research catalyst in renewable energies and energy efficiency is facilitating and coordinating the setting up of adapted R&D infrastructure, developing projects, leveraging resources, enabling innovation, improving outreach, scaling-up impacts and aligning national interests. IRESEN's operational strategy is based on two fundamental activities: - Bring the university closer to the industry by means of financial support to a high-quality applied R&D projects submitted under the framework of a well oriented and focalized call for proposals, - Set up conducive infrastructure and laboratories for R&D jointly with national and international universities to create the complementary scientific platforms of excellencies needed in different regions in Morocco while assuring an efficiency and mutuality of resources and addressing the socio-economic needs.