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2 Council for Higher Education
2019

The New Campus is the flagship program of the Council for Higher Education’s
current six-year plan (2017-2022). The launch of the New Campus is the
result of a review of the entire higher education system followed by an
understanding that alongside impressive achievements, the system must
also address changes in the world of higher education and adapt to them.
Central among these changes is the internet revolution, which has a
tremendous impact on education at every stage, as well as on research
methods, and on employment. This revolution has led to the disappearance
of certain professions, and to the birth of new ones, to a global shift toward
life-long-learning, and to greater inter-disciplinarity and a broader exchange
of knowledge between institutions in Israel and abroad.
The New Campus addresses these elements, all of which together create the
vision of a modern campus, one which is adapted to the 21st century, and
which encourages openness and entrepreneurship while removing barriers
between staff and students, between the different disciplines, and between
academia and industry.

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Chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee,
Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats

The CHE is celebrating 60 years of academic excellence and this year, we are
launching the important New Campus Project. It falls on each and every one of
us to not only pat ourselves on the back for our achievements in research and
instruction, but rather to be critical of and to address those digital changes that
impact the higher education system around the world and in the State of Israel.
To this end, we must redesign the system in order to adapt to these changes.
We are at the height of the third year of the six-year plan for the higher
education system which commenced with the 2016/17 academic year and
which will end in the 2021/22 academic year. It is important for us that
academic institutions of higher education in the State of Israel adjust to these
changes and furthermore, take advantage of them in order to develop the
system and build a new and relevant campus.
In the field of education, there is no doubt that digital learning [e-learning] is
a central component in adjusting to education during the Internet generation.
Here, we are at an advanced stage of the creation of excellent courses at
institutions which make knowledge accessible to their students as well as to
those students located outside their walls.
Additionally, I expect a change in the coming years in the composition of
students on campus, which will no longer be a place where only young adults in
their twenties come to gain knowledge or professional education.
Furthermore, the New Campus, characterized by students from all streams of
society, young and older, those at the start of their career, those preparing
for a new career and even senior citizens seeking education for their own
enrichment, will help the physical campus become the place where the
different sectors of Israeli society will come together to learn about each other,
thus furthering a multi-cultural and cross-generational dialogue.
We are committed to helping institutions make higher education accessible to
Arabs, Bedouins, Druze, Ethiopians, and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population.
We must ensure that their representation among the students population
matches their percentages in the population and their stay on campus will
assist them in learning and understanding one another.

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The campus of the future must include students from all over the world. The
international project which we are leading in the framework of our multiyear
plan was intended to create an infrastructure in institutions of higher education
to achieve this important goal. The New Campus must also offer dual major
programs that will permit new and diverse educational combinations. Thus,
for example, students in the sciences will study the humanities in-depth and
humanities students will be exposed to scientific subjects as well.
A central and important facet of the new future campus addresses the subject
of entrepreneurship and innovation and the academia-industry interface. A
campus building which is relevant to these subjects has a number of levels:
A training and instructional level; a level for creating an environment of
entrepreneurship and innovation on campus by means of events, competitions,
hackathons, etc., and a level for realizing entrepreneurial ideas while taking
advantage of the campus experience with all of its components to assist in this
and opening the gates of academia to industry. This is indeed a new campus
which requires creativity and daring in order to build it and to free ourselves of
older conventions regarding the relationship with industry.
The New Campus takes an innovative approach with regard to research as well.
Basic research was, is, and will always be the backbone of academia.
At the same time, institutions on the New Campus will be able to also develop
research with applicable impact. Development of applied research will be done
by changing research methods while opening findings and conclusions to all in
the framework of “Open Science.”
The New Campus Vision requires the engagement of all stakeholders in the
higher education system. Thankfully, our partners in these institutions,
in the academic system, and in the student body see eye to eye with us and
participate in making  the New Campus vision a reality. We are confident that
this collaboration marks the beginning of a new and promising era.

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Digital Learning -
Innovative Teaching, Accessible to All

The Internet allows one to reach realms of knowledge using digital tools
without the need to be physically present in class. In order to maximize the
potential of digital learning online academic courses are being developed.
These courses are an efficient means of improving teaching quality and the
learning experience, while making higher education more accessible.
Through this initiative, state-of-the-art academic online courses are
being produced, which offer lecturers a variety of tools and options, such
as interactive presentations and videos, that help improve the transfer of
knowledge and enhance the students’ learning experience,
Online courses are free, open, and accessible to all, and therefore help reduce
societal gaps while allowing potential students and the public at large to
freely sample a variety of subjects and disciplines and to make informed
decisions about what to study and where.
In order to connect to the global digital learning revolution, the State of
Israel has joined the international edX platform established by Harvard
University and MIT. This permits local academic institutions to offer courses
on the platform, which appear under the caption IsraelX. Additionally, edX
assisted in establishing an Israeli platform, Campus, on which courses offered
by academic institutions in Israel are also made accessible.
The Council for Higher Education promotes the production of online courses
through a series of calls for proposals, which offer financial support. The
headquarters for this national initiative – Digital Israel – in the Ministry for
Social Equality is a partner in this process.

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A Diverse Student Body

Digital learning will almost certainly change the composition of the student
body on campus, which will no longer be a place where only young adults
in their twenties come to gain knowledge or a professional education.
The digital revolution is characterized by a dynamic employment market:
more and more people change places of employment and even occupations
throughout their working lives. The New Campus will enable everyone
to re-skill or up-skill in order to expand their knowledge and professional
opportunities.
Furthermore, the New Campus, characterized by students from all streams of
society, young and older, those at the start of their career, those preparing
for a new career and even senior citizens seeking an education for their own
enrichment, will help the physical campus become the place where the
different sectors of Israeli society will come together to learn about each
other, thus furthering a multi-cultural and cross-generational dialogue.

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The Start-Up Nation Meets Academia

Israel as a country is characterized by its entrepreneurial nature and has become
a leader in innovation. Until recently though, academic institutions did not see
entrepreneurship and innovation as part of their mission. The New Campus
Vision aims to expose students and faculty from all disciplines to the world
of entrepreneurship and innovation, as is the practice in leading institutions
around the world.
The development of an entrepreneurial culture on campus by means of
workshops, contests, hackathons and “meet-ups” is central to this process.
These types of events create interest amongst students and researchers and
enable them to exchange ideas, learn, gain in-depth knowledge, and hopefully
also find partners for their projects.
Furthermore, the New Campus will enable students to become active learners,
and hopefully help transform academic institutions into spaces that encourage
groundbreaking innovation. For this purpose, entrepreneurship and innovation
centers will be established on campuses, where students from all parts of
campus will receive training in entrepreneurship and will work together
with lecturers and researchers as well as with professional mentors to create
meaningful projects which aim to impact society. The entrepreneurship centers
will thus assist in turning the campus into an entrepreneurial ecosystem that
encourages innovation and creativity, removes barriers, and strengthens
academia-industry collaboration.

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The institutions that were selected through a competitive call for
proposal to establish Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centers on campus.

• Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design –
Jerusalem and Azrieli College of Engineering – Jerusalem

• Tel Aviv University and Shenkar College of Engineering. Design. Art.
• The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Ben Gurion University of the Negev
• Sapir Academic College
• Bar Ilan University
• Afeka Academic College of Engineering – Tel Aviv
• Haifa University, ORT Brauda College of Engineering and Tel-Hai Academic

College

• Holon Institute of Technology
• Ariel University

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Paving the Way Forward Through Interdisciplinarity
In today’s global economy, the needs of the labor market are rapidly
changing. Businesses seek people with a broad and well-rounded education
who are able to work collaboratively and can find solutions in a wide range
of fields.
The New Campus will preserve disciplines that have existed for hundreds
of years but will also work to remove the barriers that hinder innovative
interdisciplinary studies, inter alia by promoting dual majors that will allow
new and varied combinations which integrate different subject matters into
the same university degree. Thus, for example, students in the sciences will
also be exposed to the humanities, and humanities’ students will be able to
take a double major in technology studies.

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social
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2019

Strengthening Internationalization
in Higher Education

The campus of the future will also include students from all over the
world. In line with this understanding, the Council for Higher Education’s
internationalization initiative was designed with the aim of creating the
infrastructure necessary to attract and integrate international students in
Israeli higher education institutions. Strengthening internationalization
will increase the level and competitiveness of Israeli academia by
accepting outstanding students from abroad, and will help enhance the
international reputation of Israeli institutions. Furthermore, the promotion of
internationalization in higher education is extremely important from political
(diplomatic ties with foreign countries), social, and economic standpoints.
As part of the Council’s initiative, the institutions are taking significant
steps to develop programs in English, establish infrastructure to attract
and accommodate international students as well as to integrate them
into academic and social life on campus. Moreover, the Council for Higher
Education is working with various governmental ministries to remove
many of the bureaucratic obstacles that make studying in Israel difficult for
international students.
The program has established objectives for increasing the number of
international students where by 2022, approximately 24,000 international
students are expected to study in Israel as opposed to the approximately
11,000 international students in 2017.

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“Open Science” in the Cloud Age

The transition to “open science” is part of a worldwide trend to make scientific
research accessible to all: from academics for whom basic research, guided
by curiosity, is the main focus of their work, to applied researchers in the
industry and in nonacademic organizations, as well as the public at large.
“Open science” encompasses all stages of scientific research, including the
gathering, processing and analyzing of data all the way through publication.
At the data gathering stage, there has been a transition to a methodology
of data sharing enabled by the rapidly developing cloud technologies that
permit researchers to share observations, measurements and findings. This
stems from an understanding that results that may have little or no use to one
researcher can be priceless to another. At the data processing and analysis
stage, access is made available to innovative research methods and tools to
be shared across disciplines. At the publication stage, there is a transition to
an open access approach that permits the distribution of research findings in
a quick and equitable manner: the peer review process is done transparently,
at times after publication, and the ability to access scientific publications is
not blocked by expensive subscription fees. Expanding scientific collaboration
in the above mentioned ways will no doubt greatly advance research and
increase its overall achievements.

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2019

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The Flagship Research Program

» Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine is an innovative approach in Israel and around the
world for preventing and treating diseases that takes into account genetic,
biological, behavioral, and environmental differences between individuals.
Extensive experience over the years in research laboratories, and at medical
institutions, demonstrates significant differences between patients suffering
from the same disease. For example, cancerous growths from the same tissue
source (such as breast cancer or prostate cancer) may have very different
expressions in different patients in terms of their malignancy, and their
responsiveness to various treatment protocols. Similar dissimilarity has
been observed in a wide variety of human diseases, and in most cases, the
causes of this dissimilarity are unknown. This makes it difficult to develop
medications and treatment protocols that are optimally tailored to each
individual patient.
The Israel Personalized Medicine Initiative (IPMP) will permit Israeli
researchers to conduct broad studies based on big data located in the
databases of Israeli hospitals and HMOs, which are considered particularly
rich and reliable. Making this clinical data available and examining
them together with the genomic sequences of volunteers will assist in
accelerating the rate of discoveries and the implementation potential of new
treatments, and will establish Israel at the forefront of research in the field of
personalized medicine.

» Quantum Science and Technology
Significant and consistent investment at the national level in developing
the field of quantum science and technology is expected to constitute a
significant upgrade of Israel’s research abilities and its status as a key player
in this field.

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2019

The development of quantum science and technology is based on an
understanding of the interaction between individual degrees of freedom
of the system (for example, photons and individual atoms) and the
development of the technology required to control them. These abilities
hold the promise, and in part already allow, the construction of infinitely
more powerful computers than those that exist today, alongside encrypted
communication that is impervious to eavesdropping, the simulation of
systems too complex to calculate using existing computers, sensors far more
sensitive than those commonly available, the development of materials with
unique characteristics, and more.

» Data Science

Data science refers to the collection, management, processing, analysis,
and visualization of data associated with a wide range of academic
disciplines and commercial applications. In the last several years, the field
has experienced increased and accelerated growth, and has benefited from
greater investments, both by industry, universities and private research
institutes. The reasons for the development of data science are connected
to a number of factors: a significant increase in the quantity and availability
of data generated around the world, the continual development of methods,
algorithms and technologies for processing and analyzing big and varied
datasets, and the development of advanced storage solutions.

Data science can help advance research in practically all academic fields and
has the potential to be innovative and groundbreaking not only in the exact
sciences, but also in the social sciences and the humanities. There is no doubt
that advances in this field will result in a leap forward in in terms of research
and teaching in a large number of disciplines, and will contribute to Israel’s
economic resilience.

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