The project, supported by UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity, seeks to broaden access to digital cultural practices and strengthen young people’s skills in digital arts.
Running from 2026 to 2028, NUMUN will offer young people opportunities to discover, reinvent and practice digital arts through interactive works, workshops and artistic activities. The project will also include documentation and data collection to better understand uses and practices related to the digital sphere and inform discussions on the place of digital arts in cultural policies.
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Through a mobile digital arts unit, the project plans to reach audiences in six neighborhoods in Rabat and three rural areas, providing free access to digital works as well as training and educational activities focused on the use of creative tools.
Speaking to Morocco’s official news agency MAP, Sharaf Ahmimed, UNESCO’s Regional Director and Representative for the Maghreb, said the initiative aims to promote digital arts and make them more accessible to young people, particularly in areas where cultural infrastructure remains limited.
Ahmimed said NUMUN seeks to encourage young people, particularly young women, to access digital creative practices and tools, and especially to help them discover and engage with new forms of artistic and cultural expression.
Marouane Fchane, director general of the Hiba Foundation, welcomed the support provided to the project by the International Fund for Cultural Diversity. He said NUMUN is primarily intended to reduce disparities in access to digital cultural and artistic practices between urban centers and suburban and rural areas.
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Fchane explained that the project is built around a bus that has been completely refurbished and converted into a mobile studio, allowing it to travel to meet audiences in outlying neighborhoods as well as various rural areas.
He said the mobile unit will provide free access to interactive digital works and experiences, while also serving as an educational space for workshops and opportunities to discover practices led by industry professionals.
NUMUN is being implemented by the Hiba Foundation with the support of its partners: the UNESCO Maghreb office, the French Institute of Morocco, Alsa Morocco and the Rasm ART association.
