A research and innovation hub adapted to both the north and the south

• • The situation of Benguerir on the geographical physical level: an arid zone subject to the problems of sustainable development.
• • The socio-cultural situation: an area in which the populations suffer the full force of globalization, the dissonance between technological innovation and the human capacity/incapacity to appropriate these innovations.
• • IAS will be able to play the role of interface between developing industrial societies (in particular Sub-Saharan African countries) and advanced industrial societies (Western Europe and North America).