In 2015, the Faculty of Humanities signed a mobility agreement with Ecole de Gouvernance et d'Économie de Rabat (EGE) to increase opportunities in Morocco. This was due largely to the faculty’s BA International Studies programme, which allows students to select an area of the world in which to specialise and study abroad. Many students select the Middle East or Africa as their region of specialisation. This mobility project enables Leiden students to study at EGE for a semester and EGE students to study at Leiden University. In turn, this adds to the diversity of the faculty from a region that is underrepresented in our student body, but is at the same time a focus of study within the faculty. 

The Faculty of Humanities has also expressed the importance of cooperation with Morocco by establishing Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR), a Dutch expertise centre for Moroccan Studies in 2016. The center is based in Rabat and is part of the Faculty of Humanities.

EGE views internalisation as a strategic goal that prepares youth to be more competitive and open to the dynamics of a globalised world environment. This project will help to develop an international EGE community based on a realistic vision of education, which goes beyond local and regional boundaries and embraces the multiplicity of points of views and experiences offered by international mobility.