The Practical Impact Alliance Co-Design Summit, co-hosted in Laayoune by the Phosboucraa Foundation and MIT D-Lab from November 26 to December 1, was an opportunity to launch a new approach to entrepreneurship.
 
 
The closing ceremony of the Practical Impact Alliance Co-Design Summit, a week-long summit co-hosted in Laayoune by the Phosboucraa Foundation and MIT D-Lab was held on Saturday, December 1. The MIT D-Lab is a program at the U.S.-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The ceremony wrapped up many days of hard work for the teams who led the ideation of six social projects.
 
The Practical Impact Alliance Co-Design Summit aimed to launch a new joint design approach to entrepreneurship, a unique training program provided by MIT’s experts to help aspiring entrepreneurs create and innovate. The goal was to help develop collaborative solutions to local socioeconomic challenges through workshops.
 
Over the week of the summit, the three categories of participants (young aspiring entrepreneurs, the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, and MIT Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) network members) were asked to apply the D-Lab co-design method to identify and develop entrepreneurial ideas for local economic development. The MIT is internationally renowned for this approach that aims to create a new entrepreneurial dynamic focused on knowledge acquisition, network development and, above all, a change in mentality and approach.