The theme of the 13th edition of the Arbois and Mediterranean Round Tables on 3 and 4 May is "Hydrogen tomorrow: myths and realities".
More than 1000 participants are expected in Aix en Provence for this annual event, which has become a must. This edition will highlight the potential and opportunities that Green Hydrogen represents in the fight against climate change and in the construction of a decarbonised energy model in Europe and Africa.
Speakers will include Philippe Busquin, former European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Antoine Petit, Chairman and CEO of the CNRS, and other renowned speakers.
To close these scientific days, a literary meeting pays tribute to Morocco, its contemporary culture, and more particularly to its literature.
Five women, Yasmine Chaoui, Lamia Berrada, Leīla Bahseïn, Maī-Do Hamisultane and Zineb Mekouar, will meet with Fouad Laroui to discuss their most recent works and debate their country, their society, their fears and their hopes.
The debate will be followed by a poetry recital by Rim Battal with musical accompaniment.
Michèle Locquifer, Honorary Judge at the Superior Court of Justice of Belgium, Claudie Haigneré, astronaut and former Minister of Research, Danièle Giraudy, former Director of the Marseilles Museums and former Scientific Director of the Louvre, Marina Lafon-Borelli, President of the Marseilles Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Paule Constant of the Académie Goncourt, and Maryline Crivello, Vice-President of Culture at AMU, will all honour us with their presence.