Our Community

EIT Hub Israel’s community is the beating heart of our organisation, where the bridges are built and the opportunities occur.

Our community is our essence. It is comprised of all of the talented people and organisations who have been a part of EIT Hub Israel’s transformative journeys.

Whether you are a startup, entrepreneur, research center, academic organisation, mentor, diplomat, VC, government body, EIT hub, KIC member, industry player, hospital, municipality, or an amazing person who joined us in making an innovative impact, you belong to the EIT Hub Israel community.

Our community is dynamic and constantly growing. Once in, you can be sure that multiple opportunities will be presented to you, connections will continue to be made, and you will be a part of a mutually beneficial and valuable relationship that we consider to be the core element of our activities.

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OUR COMMUNITY’S ADDED VALUES

CONNECTIONS

Pan European, cross-KIC & EU-IL – our network spans beyond borders, creating an infinite number of potential links to support your ecosystem

LEADERSHIP BUILDING

Our community’s opportunities are designed to boost your impact, enabling you to grow and constantly reach new horizons

Exclusive Network

We surround ourselves with the best in each field. Being a part of our community grants exclusive access to talent and enables peer learning at the highest of levels

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

Our exposure to best practices in both Israel and Europe enables the facilitation of global knowledge exchange within our community

in the spotlight

Meet members of our community, currently taking part in our transformative journeys

blog

The voices of our community.
Curated content from the people who have been a part of EIT Hub Israel’s transformative journeys.

Open Innovation: Fueling the Automotive Industry’s Transformation 🚗

The automotive industry has undergone profound transformations driven by the global imperative to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. This ongoing revolution has given rise to new challenges, prompting automotive and mobility companies to develop innovative solutions that will drive future growth.

By: Batya Mor, Talya Ohana, Maayan Sharon and Peter Edelstein

Shedding Light on an Often-Overlooked Aspect of the Global Economy: Ports⚓️

Ports must embrace the opportunities offered by technological advancements in order to enhance their operations and contribute to greater economic growth in today’s rapidly changing world. 

By: Batya Mor, Talya Ohana, Maayan Sharon and Shaked Helft

Corporates are from Mars and Startups are from Venus

Our galactic guide to navigating through the open (innovation) space

By: Adi Barel & Yoni Levenfeld

EIT Hub Israel boosting  innovation ecosystems

Main takeaways from the Ecosystem Summit

By: Beatriz Camacho Avila

Mission:Innovation Key takeaways

A great opportunity to take a step back and re-assess our operational environment.

By: Sofronis Papageorgiou, Head of Cyprus Trade Center

Impressions from Mission Innovation

״It is described as an “ecosystem and Innovation bootcamp” but is actually a full immersion to a network that is complicated as it is bustling.״

By: Nicholas Christodoulidis – Head of Economic and Commercial Affairs Office

Israel: An Impossible to become Possible

Where does the secret of a state with a large part of its territory covered by desert and with rather unfriendly neighbors lie?

By: Arunas Karlonas, Commercial attache of Lithuania to Israel

A Demo Day is only the beginning of the road to startup success.

By: Maayan Sharon

news

The latest news in Israel’s innovation ecosystem

The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) deals with EU legislation in the categories of free movement of goods and services, customs and consumer protection. EU Parliament officials, including vice presidents, met with us and other leading organizations to explore Israel’s regulatory environment and digital sector.

Testimonials

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Jb Labrune

“I joined the programme because I want to collaborate with EIT and exchange insights with other diplomats. Even though we represent different countries, we have one goal and we can support each other. The first programme is the very first of this kind. It helps us work on the shared ground.”
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Dušan Vujović

Dušan Vujović

“Diplomats on-site need to wear a lot of hats. We’ve just opened our office in Jerusalem, with a focus on innovations. Thanks to this programme I can better understand the Israeli ecosystem and stakeholders’ perspectives.”
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Antonio Millan

Antonio Millan

“​​I joined the programme to lift the image of Spain and build bridges. The EIT Hub in Israel helps build unique connections.”
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Nika Levikov

“We floated in a beautiful, stimulating and motivated bubble across Israel and are now genuinely keen to apply what we have learned and follow through with talks of new collaborations. I say “we” because we really were able to make meaningful connections. I say “we” because I know the rest of the cohort feels the same way” (Connect & Experience IL 2021)
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Full access to the community network

Connect & Experience offers more than training. The C&E community network is an active EU online and offline community offering easy access to opportunities, curated content, matchmaking, soft landing services, and support. The community provides a space for community builders from Europe and Horizon Europe associated countries to interact, share best practices, and collaborate to enhance your startup community.

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Access to Healthcare

The Health not The Death is a fundamental human right. A healthy population is not to be seen as human and social capital, an input, or by-product, towards economic growth. Alongside a healthy and sustainable environment, a solidarity, a healthy population must be the ultimate goal especially nowadays in helping Ukrainian migrants with cancer and their families.

Solidarity in health is a cornerstone of EU health policy. There are wide disparities in many health outcomes across the region and those outcomes. The access rules dramatically affect healthcare systems which are at the forefront of the migrant way, the people who are searching for help and the way how we could enhance and support their healthier and wellbeing status.

In order to ensure their access to care and continued cure in need, the probability of receiving a timely diagnosis and of surviving differs greatly from country to country where they are now. There is lack of information, help and inequalities in access. People need help in navigating cancer knowledge, diagnostics, secondary monitoring and prevention, way of treatments, and care.

Shifting our mindset, supporting healthcare connectivity, removing inequalities overall across Europe is our mission and even more now in a time of crisis, helping the Ukrainian people dealing with cancer is a good place to begin this transformative revolution.

1) Whether we have a chance to foster more holistic and integrated approaches to receive information and care, by supporting coordination and maximising an enabling and health-enhancing effect of care across services from different countries?

2) Whether actions should address the social determinants of health, the countries where they are now, the health need which they have, the social and language barriers are the conditions which have to be taken into consideration in a coordinated manner?

How might we improve patients and /or people who seek healthcare support, access to healthcare services at an EU & the Member States Healthcare systems level? Especially in a time of crisis in Europe.

How might we support refugees fleeing from their countries by navigating them to medical centres to receive best available care?  

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Predictive Treatment

Precision medicine aims to personalise care for every individual. Nongenomic and genomic determinants, combined with information from patient symptoms, clinical history, and lifestyle (nutrition, physical activity, stress etc.), can facilitate personalised diagnosis and prognostics. Yet this goal requires access to massive amounts of data which may come from different structured and unstructured sources; these can be our medical records, laboratory testing, a range of medical devices as well as from the patient himself. AI & ML can combine input from these multiple sources, analyse them and identify biomarkers that can support health professionals make more informed decisions. The convergence of precision medicine with the advanced AI capabilities will improve the ability to personalise care – improve diagnosis, risk prediction as well as therapy planning.  

HCPs want to better predict treatment response, given uncertainty around which treatment to prescribe to which patient and when to prescribe. How do we risk assess the patients, match them with the right treatment (personalised). How can we transform the wealth of data and link it to the predictive nature of how the patient will respond?

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Patient Journey Navigation

Being diagnosed with cancer is overwhelming and comes as a blow. Patients may feel on a roller coaster of emotions—they are scared, lost & confused not knowing what to expect, who to refer to, what to do and how to tell their loved ones.  They directly refer to “Dr. Google” to look for information about their disease, possible treatments, QoL strategies with the aim to have better understanding of their disease and learn how to better cope with their disease & treatment, yet information is not always valid, accessible, nor personalised or tailored to the patient’s status and needs therefore left with huge amounts of non-relevant information. Coming to the doctor, the physician’s time is limited and mostly focusing on the physical aspects of the disease & treatment, not leaving much time to ask questions nor discuss more holistic aspects of the disease such as emotional, psychological, social aspects. The patient (& caregiver in many cases) leaves the room with unanswered questions, doesn’t remember much of what has been said, and feels he is not heard, nor seen as a whole.

The need for navigating this journey along the emotional psychological stress is overwhelming & patients and their caregivers look for support (case manager/companion/partner) to help manage their disease holistically – starting from having clarity around their disease and treatment by having access to reliable and personalised information during their journey as well as having an integrated holistic care system , supporting them and their loved ones to navigate through the different aspects of their disease – medical, emotional, logistical, psychological, social, rights.

How can we support patients to navigate through the complexity of their disease and treatment ensuring they have validated holistic information about their disease journey & treatment and be empowered to  effectively manage their care 

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Peer-to-Peer Medical Exchange

As medical events pivoted from conference centres and meeting rooms to the virtual settings, learning opportunities continue. Lectures and presentations are translated to the new digital world, yet the ability to connect and network is relatively lost. Peer interaction is essential not only for information exchange but to share practical insights, allows consultation & in-person experience cross country and across borders leading to better disease management.

This peer-based learning/ consultation is highly valued amongst practising clinicians and was generally achieved when HCPs and KOLs met their peers in national & Intl conferences, group debates, advisory boards and even during quick corridor conversations. Attempting to replicate these in-person experiences into the digital space creates challenges and are not effective nor impactful as face-to-face engagements. 

How might we improve HCP medical exchange enabling physicians to easily communicate, consult, exchange opinions leveraging individual experts & centres of excellence knowledge, experiences, and practices?

How can we leverage the technological expertise to allow HCPs to connect with leading experts across countries to get advice / counselling for their cases?

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