BMI has conducted another edition of the Sustainable Development Seminar in the Arava Desert held together with the Eilat Eliot Renewable Energy Initiative and the Afeka College.

Another cohort of students took part in an inter-disciplinary seminar at the Arava desert. The seminar addressed various issues of sustainable development, including on-hand experiences, lecture from experts and entrepreneurs and much more. The heterogenic group of students from various disciplines – Public Policy, Engineering, Conflict Resolution, Environment and Sustainable Development – worked together to create solution to real-life sustainable development challenges.

The result of a collaboration between Tel Aviv University – the Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges, the School of Social and Policy Studies, the Department of

Public Policy, Afeka College of Engineering, and the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Company, located in southern Arava. Eilat-Eilot has been working for a decade for regional economic-technological-socio-development based on the most significant geographical resource – The sun. This resource is the heart of all the organization’s activities: generating solar-free electricity for 100,000 people, promoting technological innovation and cleantech, regulation and

policy advancement, international conferences, a training center, and more.

This year’s research topics will be:

• Smart and precise agriculture
• Locating water leaks after the water distribution in the piping systems
• Enhancing farmer-owned small-scale solar power generation in India
• A combination of sustainability, community, and education
• Remote monitoring for small farmers using apps
• Examination and development of an education program and a financial model adapted to

the beneficiaries of the agricultural program

• Protein production from garbage by the black fly
• Hydroponic farming

As part of a collaboration with Afeka college and the Eilat-Eilot renewable energies organization, the institute is proud to lead the methodological development allowing Social Science students from TAU and future engineers from Afeka college to participate in a one-week intensive seminar devoted to developing interdisciplinary and robust solutions in fields of renewable energies.

During the seminar, students are introduced to the diverse renewable energy eco-system in the Arava region and attend numerous lectures and workshops given by top-tier industry leaders and researchers to lay solid foundations for accurate and contemporary work by the students in the future.

Another cohort of students took part in an inter-disciplinary seminar at the Arava desert. The seminar addressed various issues of sustainable development, including on-hand experiences, lecture from experts and entrepreneurs and much more. The heterogenic group of students from various disciplines – Public Policy, Engineering, Conflict Resolution, Environment and Sustainable Development – worked together to create solution to real-life sustainable development challenges.