Sustainable Development Archives - The Boris Mints Institute https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/category/activities/activities-sustainable-development/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:45:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-logo2-32x32.jpg Sustainable Development Archives - The Boris Mints Institute https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/category/activities/activities-sustainable-development/ 32 32 The 13th Arava Seminar for Sustainable Development https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/the-13th-arava-seminar-for-sustainable-development/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:20:33 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=2904 Another cohort of students took part in an inter-disciplinary seminar at the Arava desert.

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The 13th Arava Seminar for Sustainable Development

Apr 30, 2024

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.

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]]> BMI welcomes the EWB delegation back from Tanzania following a successful trip in April 2023 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/bmi-welcomes-the-ewb-delegation-back-from-tanzania-following-a-successful-trip-in-april-2023/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 09:36:24 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=2341 The delegation focused on various projects, including a new collaboration between Israel, the United States, Germany, and Tanzania for drinking water.

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BMI welcomes the EWB delegation back from Tanzania following a successful trip in April 2023.

Apr 26, 2023

Here you can listen to the TAU podcast summarizing the delegation’s journey to Tanzania 

The EWB delegation, supported by BMI, is back from Tanzania following a successful trip in April 2023.The delegation focused on various projects, including a new collaboration between Israel, the United States, Germany, and Tanzania for drinking water. The team built a scalable water filtration system using ceramic filters connected in parallel, which was installed in Sabilo Primary School. In partnership with the non-profit organization Wine to Water, the team provided WASH education to the community. The project also involved collaborating with VETA, Babati, and German experts who used the opportunity to teach students welding and building skills. The project has given 1,000 children and staff access to clean water year-round.

The EWB team also constructed a new 60,000-liter rainwater harvesting system, the most extensive system built to date by the team and the community. It covers around 1,000 square meters of the roof and 115 meters of gutters, providing clean water for 800 children.

Additionally, the team had a research expedition with local water authorities to explore expanding the project to new areas and implemented an expanded educational WASH program in the schools. The team also built new collaborations with local and international organizations, including SO THAY CAN, a New Zealand-based NGO. They hosted a seminar for school administrators and community leaders from seven schools in the Babati District, focusing on building water systems with cost-effective materials, education, and international collaboration, emphasizing community involvement and system maintenance.

 

Lastly, the team reviewed the water technology pilots from 2022, which included a new water collection tank and automatic meteorological station.

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]]> Launching the 12th Arava Seminar for Sustainable Development https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/launching-the-12th-arava-seminar-for-sustainable-development/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:14:13 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=2242 The result of a collaboration between TAU - BMI, 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.

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Launching the 12th Arava Seminar for Sustainable Development

Feb 15, 2023

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

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]]> BMI graduate Dr. Gideon Segev won the prestigious R&D 100 Award https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/bmi-graduate-dr-gideon-segev-won-the-prestigious-rd-100-award/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:55:20 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=1781 BMI graduate Dr. Gideon Segev, among six other researchers, won the prestigious R&D 100 award for developing a Solar Fuel Generator Including a Catalytic Mesh

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BMI graduate Dr. Gideon Segev won the prestigious R&D 100 Award

Sep 23, 2022

BMI graduate Dr. Gideon Segev, among six other researchers, won the prestigious R&D 100 award for developing a Solar Fuel Generator Including a Catalytic Mesh

 

Hydrogen produced from green resources is a clean, renewable alternative to the hydrogen produced from fossil fuels today. With the invention, unlimited quantities of green hydrogen can be produced using only sunlight and water, while only oxygen is produced as a byproduct. Its modular, standalone design promises to bring the benefits of clean hydrogen everywhere, even in areas without an electrical grid or large-scale manufacturing infrastructure, as required by current electrolyzer technologies.

 

The other members of Dr. Segev’s team were: Jeff Beeman (Berkeley Lab, retired), Frances Houle (Berkeley Lab), David Larson (Twelve), Ian Sharp (Technical University of Munich), and Karl Walczak (Sandia National Laboratories).

 

Find more about the award by clicking here: https://www.rdworldonline.com/

 

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]]> The 11th Arava seminar on renewable energies and policy solutions begins https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/the-11th-arava-seminar/ Sun, 18 Sep 2022 09:40:43 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=1814 In collaboration with Afeka college and the Eilat-Eilot renewable energies organization

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The 11th Arava seminar on renewable energies and policy solutions begins

Sep 18, 2022

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.

 

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]]> Announcing structural changes in BMI https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/announcing-structural-changes-in-bmi/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:09:33 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=1662 Letter from Head of BMI, Prof. Itai Sened

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Announcing structural changes in BMI

Letter from Head of BMI, Prof. Itai Sened

Aug 30, 2022

Challenges, we have a lot to be proud of the institute has had a very significant contribution to the body of knowledge and policy reforms in the fields of sustainable water and energy resources. We helped global communities prepare and resort to new structures of renewable energy and water supplies. We have also contributed significantly to the emergence of a new breed of knowledge regarding conflict management and resolution.

 

Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine had our heads spinning with grief over the unnecessary loss of lives and property. We thus turned our attention to this disastrous outcome that became what we believe to be the most significant challenge currently facing the globe. In a series of public and closed discussions with the outstanding group of scholars that has, by now, gathered around the institute to create the BMI community of research and knowledge, we have learned to associate this sad event with the failure of existing economic and political institutions at the national and global level. Thus, this has become the new focus of research at the institute.

 

Given the magnitude and urgency of the task, the institute has restructured itself to better address it in the most efficient way:

Much is awaiting us this coming year as we focus our attention on the new global challenges awaiting our outstanding efforts to find strategic policy solutions to address them.

 

Professor Itai Sened 

Head of The Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges

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]]> BMI and faculty of social sciences host ‘Noar Shoher Mada’ https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/bmi-and-faculty-of-social-sciences-host-noar-shoher-mada-3/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:19:08 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=1796 Noar Shoher Mada is a project, which gives gifted high-school children a chance to study at a university without going through final exams or SATs.

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BMI and the Faculty of Social Sciences host 'Noar Shoher Mada'

Jul 26, 2022

 

 

Noar Shoher Mada is a project, which gives gifted high-school children a chance to study at a university without going through final exams or SATs. Those students can take any course they want and can even get a first degree before finishing high school.

In order to advance the Institute’s mission of providing policy solutions to global challenges, three interdisciplinarity lectures will be presented pertaining to sustainable development and formulation of robust policy solutions in a changing environment to provide these young people with the essential tools for metacognition and problem solving.

Tuesday, 26/07/22, 15:30-17:00

Matanel Garden at the faculty of Social Sciences, TAU

Schedule

 

15:30 – Gathering

 

15:45 – Opening Remarks:

  • Ami Buganim – CEO, Matanel Foundation
  • Prof. Itai Sened – Dead of faculty of Social Sciences, TAU

16:00 – Three Lectures

  • Prof. Hadas Mamane – challenges and solutions in the field of water and sanitation
  • Dr. Ram Fishman – sustainable development challenges

  • Alon Shepon – environmental Issues 

     

17:00 – Q&A Panel

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]]> Arava Seminar – Sustainable Development https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/arava-seminar-feb-22/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:24:16 +0000 https://bmiglobalsolutions.org/?p=703 Another cohort of students took part in an inter-disciplinary seminar at the Arava desert.

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Arava Seminar - Sustainable Development

Feb 15, 2022

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.

 

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