Country ambassadors play an important role in connecting universities and research institutions with the rest of the world. By visiting universities and talking to professors and researchers, ambassadors can help to foster international collaboration and exchange of ideas, as well as provide valuable insight into the culture and values of their home countries.
This can be especially beneficial for universities and research institutions that are looking to expand their global reach and build relationships with other countries. By engaging with country ambassadors, universities and research institutions can gain a better understanding of the opportunities available for partnerships and collaborations.
Bar-Ilan University regularly hosts ambassadors and other diplomats from the many embassies in Israel and, most recently, the International School welcomed the Italian and Croatian ambassadors.
H.E. Sergio Barbanti, the Ambassador of Italy to Israel (center), with representatives from BIU, the International School, and the Italian Embassy
H.E. Sergio Barbanti, the Ambassador of Italy to Israel, visited Bar-Ilan at the end of January with Giulia Calabrese, First Secretary: Cultural and Scientific Affairs.
H.E. Vesela Mrden Korac, Ambassador of Croatia to Israel, visited at the beginning of February.
They met senior management of Bar-Ilan, the International School as well as heads of departments, heard about new opportunities and research, and visited the UnBox Innovation Center, the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, and the Institute of Nano Technology and Advanced Materials.
L-R: Prof. Alon Korngreen, Head of the Gonda Center for Multidisciplinary Brain Research, and H.E. Vesela Mrden Korac, Ambassador of Croatia to Israel
The delegates also met some of the international students and well-known researchers originally from their respective countries.
New Joint Master Degree
Italy and Croatia have strong academic relationships with Israel and there are many existing partnerships between Bar-Ilan and universities in both countries.
One of the most recent collaborations that includes these two countries is an agreement between six leading universities in Israel and Europe – Bar-Ilan University, University of Padova in Italy, University of Zagreb in Croatia, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, in Portugal, University of Jyväskylä in Finland, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in The Netherlands – which resulted in the launch of a groundbreaking new joint program in 2022, NeuroData: the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Program in Brain and Data Science.
If you are interested in visiting Bar-Ilan University to find out more about the opportunities to collaborate and partner with us, please reach out to Yaël Toledano, Director: International Relations and Partnerships, BIU’s International School at [email protected] or call +972-3-738-4720.
Wines of Kings
Bar-Ilan University’s Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Department is on a search to find the “wine of kings” from the days of the First Temple—the wine that King David drank nearly 3000 years ago.
In the meantime, two strains of vines that go back to the days of the Second Temple have been found and various Israeli wineries have been making wine from these almost extinct species of indigenous grapes.
Here, BIU’s President, Prof. Arie Zaban (left), presents a bottle of this wine to H.E. Sergio Barbanti.
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