As part of the UK’s Global Business Innovation Program (GBIP), business leaders working in the global community of industrial clean growth visited Bar-Ilan University last month. The visit was organized and led by Innovate UK, Innovate UK EDGE, and the British Embassy in Israel. The goal of the visit was for the companies to use it as “an opportunity to engage with key stakeholders from the clean growth tech industry, hear cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals who share a similar appetite for forward-focused collaboration.” The nine companies represented included Bartech, Bohr Green Energy, CCell Renewables,...

Bar-Ilan University is highly committed to expanding its research and innovation activities and has, in recent years, adopted the "impact-driven" approach in academic research where multidisciplinary teams of Bar-Ilan University researchers work together to address pressing challenges facing Israel and the world. Through the establishment of new multidisciplinary “Impact Centers”, Bar-Ilan is revitalizing and modernizing academic instruction and expanding advanced study programs. Bar-Ilan’s Impact Centers focus on a wide range of subjects that may have social, economic, political, cultural, technological, and medical implications. These include Network Science, Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QUEST), Applied Cryptography and Cybersecurity, Energy and Sustainability,...

Bar-Ilan University’s students and alumni are successful, well-rounded, and high achievers. Not only have they received various honors, but they have also contributed to society in a variety of ways. Meet two of our current students and two alumni. Sara Meir, MSc in Engineering Sara Meir is a Master's student in BIU’s Kofkin Faculty of Engineering. Recently, she was awarded the coveted 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for her potential contribution to the field of optics. Sara conducts her research in the lab of Prof. Moti Fridman where she studies...

Israeli Innovation Highest number of startups per capita in the world Highest number of companies listed in NASDAQ after the U.S. and Canada Highest number of Israeli unicorns per capita in the world (more than 50) Highest number of research institutes per capita R&D centers of leading multinational companies in Israel, including Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, Google, and Apple Israeli Excellence World’s highest rate of university degrees per capita Highest production of scientific papers annually per capita Leading country using solar water heating per capita Highest number of non-profit organizations. World leader in vaccinating against Covid-19 Innovative robot vacuum for solar...

Madina Telkhozhayeva, who hails from Almaty, Kazakhstan, has been a doctoral student in the lab of Prof. Gilbert Daniel Nessim in the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University since October 2018. She graduated with an MSc in Technics and Technology from Al Farabi Kazakh National University in her hometown of Almaty in March 2017. As a top student in her field, she has received various scholarships for her studies, including for her PhD. She was awarded a Presidential Fellowship (Milgat Nasi) for pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University for 2018-2019 and she received the Nano Scholarship for Outstanding...

Erasmus+Strategic Partnerships aim to support the development, transfer, and/or implementation of innovative practices at organizational, local, regional, national, or European levels. Strategic Partnerships offer the opportunity to organizations active in the fields of education, training, and youth, as well as enterprises, public authorities, civil society organizations active in different socio-economic sectors to cooperate in order to implement innovative practices leading to high-quality teaching, training, learning and youth work, institutional modernization and societal innovation. Read more about these Strategic Partnerships here. What is TEAM? Many countries face a variety of problems and challenges within the educational system and in teacher education...

What is the DOCMEN Project? The main purpose of the DOCMEN Project is the modernization of academic curricula in the field of microelectronics through developing innovative courses and methodologies using the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), the three-cycle system, and the recognition of degrees. The DOCMEN Project's aim is to reform curricula in study courses related to microelectronics at higher educational institutions in the partner countries – Armenia, Israel, and Kazakhstan. This goal is achieved through the cooperation of the partner countries with European partners and industrial project participants. DOCMEN is a multinational project and is coordinated by...

In-person higher education fairs are slowly returning to the world stage and Bar-Ilan University’s International School participated successfully in the French fairs organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)  in February 2022. Yael Toledano, Director of External Academic and Diplomatic Relations, represented BIU’s International School at the week-long events in Paris. These included fairs at about eight Jewish high schools, a general fair for all potential students (undergraduates, graduates, and postgraduates), and meetings with the Israeli Embassy in Paris and the Union des Étudiants Juifs de France (UEJF – the Jewish Students’ Association of France). Back L-R: Prof. Galia...

Open Day Session for Undergraduate Students Bar-Ilan University’s International School will host an information session to discuss all the options for undergraduate studies offered at the university on 18 April 2021. There will be two sessions – one in the morning and one in the evening (Israel time). Each session will include an overview of Bar-Ilan University and each degree and specialty offered. In the meantime, you can find out more about the different Bachelor’s degree programs below and on our website – undergraduate studies. If you're interested in any of our Master’s degrees, please visit the graduate studies section...

At the beginning of 2018, Bar-Ilan University undergraduate students, Sariba Feinstein, a Jewish immigrant (olah) from the US, and Fatima Amer, an Arab Muslim Israeli, combined forces to start a branch of the Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA) at Bar-Ilan University under the leadership of their professor, Dr. Ben Mollov. The success of this initiative sparked the innovative and pioneering “Jewish-Arab Inter-Religious Dialogue” academic program, created by Dr. Mollov, which is now completing its second year as part of the Bachelor of Arts in Communications, a degree offered in English at Bar-Ilan’s International School. At the time, both Sariba and Fatima were students of Dr. Mollov,...