The Instituto Nebrija is born in Casablanca

Institutos Nebrija presents the Instituto Nebrija project in Casablanca, the first Spanish private educational institution to be established in Casablanca, which will begin operating in March. 

It thus joins the list of countries where Nebrija already has a presence: China (Nanjing), Indonesia (Jakarta), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Italy, Greece and the United States.

Institutos Nebrija signed an agreement with the Segepec group, one of the largest educational groups in Morocco, to establish this Instituto Nebrija in Casablanca. 

Nebrija's global expansion project, through the international network of institutes, began in September 2016 with the inauguration of the Instituto Nebrija-JESIE in the city of Nanjing (China).

The Casablanca centre will be located at number 309 Boulevard Ziraoui, one of the most influential avenues in the city. Its initial objective is to promote Spanish and increase the number of Spanish speakers in the city and its area of influence. In addition, during the 2025-2026 academic year, it plans to begin training for the university entrance exam in Spain. 

In the words of Juan Padilla, general director of Institutos Nebrija: ‘The creation of this Institute is a very important milestone for the expansion of our international network as the first Spanish private educational institution in Casablanca and one that should set the expectations we have for Morocco. The presence of Spanish in Moroccan education is increasingly significant: it is taught as a second foreign language in secondary education and as a foreign language in higher education. Moroccan students represent one of the largest communities of foreign students in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Spain. In addition, vocational training is increasingly positioned as a valued educational option in Morocco and a growing number of its students choose to study it in our country’.

In terms of the business world, continues Padilla, ‘Spanish occupies a prominent place in Morocco due to the increasingly strong commercial relations with Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. This demand for skills in Spanish opens up new job opportunities for young Moroccans, which makes our Institute an even more attractive option for those looking to improve their professional profile’. 

For her part, Pilar Alcover, director of the Nebrija Institute of Spanish, alludes to ‘the excitement and responsibility that comes with having a presence on four continents since the opening of this centre’. ‘Our new Nebrija Institute is an initiative that seeks not only to promote the learning of the Spanish language and culture, but also to strengthen cultural ties and educational and business collaboration between Spain and Morocco,’ she says.

‘We firmly believe,’ continues Alcover, ’that this initiative will benefit the local community and contribute to a deeper understanding between cultures, complementing the work of other official Spanish institutions in the task of disseminating Spanish and university education in Spain among Moroccan society’.