Haifa Innovation Labs (HIL)
Social Innovation and Impact Entrepreneurship
HIL events and meetings that will bring sparks to your eyes: Come catch up on everything we have to offer students on campus.
Do you have an amazing idea for a Start-Up?
This is your chance.
Submit your application to our program for professional guidance and funding opportunities.
An opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams on a real project from the field, accompanied by mentors, in order to create an innovative solution to a burning social-environmental problem.
Innovative and advanced courses, open to all students at the university, for learning in small classes, through experience and mentoring by lecturers from the industry.
Haifa Innovation Labs serve as a hub supporting social and environmental innovation alongside impact entrepreneurship. Aiming to tackle the major challenges of our time – such as poverty, hunger, climate change, and energy – we use a unique, challenge-driven innovation platform to provide support, tools, and resources for breakthrough initiatives. In collaboration with researchers who contribute academic knowledge and local industry leaders, HIL hosts advanced research and development processes with professional mentoring to foster and support technological innovation around social inequality, the blue economy, and the low-carbon economy.
HIL Academic
We offer a variety of academic courses to get tools for your first steps in the world of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our teaching method in courses is based on projects (project-based learning), combining theoretical principles with practical experience. To achieve these goals, we brought lecturers from the world of entrepreneurial and innovative practice to deliver the courses.
The Innovation Nursery
The Innovation Nursery is an academic workshop for experiencing the world of impact entrepreneurship. Students who join the Innovation Nursery are given the opportunity to work with a real client with an environmental or social challenge, and together with students from different faculties, to produce an innovative solution. The workshop is accompanied by an immersion package that includes experienced mentors, along with support from experts in various fields needed for each venture, such as intellectual property (patents), business development and more.
From here, you will come out with an initial prototype of an innovative product or service.
Summer 2020 at the Nursery – Come find out what are we working on these days
Acceleration Program
Our acceleration program will help you take the first steps in the a world of entrepreneurship and innovation, in order to promote your venture.
Our program supports startups of both current students and alumni.
The accompaniment package on behalf of the fund includes initial funding and professional mentoring for about six months.
News & Events
15/07/20 – The University of Haifa Center for Innovation training students from various academic fields.
The Innovation Center of the University of Haifa has completed a challenging academic year under the Corona Crisis but continues to promote initiatives even during
האקתון אלברט אינשטיין- חדשנות בחינוך לחוסן לאומי
האקתון אלברט אינשטיין חדשנות בחינוך לחוסן לאומי האקתון אלברט איינשטיין, נולד במטרה לפתור את האתגרים הקיימים כיום בתחום החינוך והלמידה, כדי למצוא פתרונות פורצי דרך
F. A. Q
Registration for courses in the cluster for innovation and entrepreneurship is done through registration for open enrichment clusters for undergraduate or graduate students from the University of Haifa.
* Participation in courses is subject to the approval of the department.
* It is not possible to combine courses in the "Derech Ha Ruach" enrichment cluster, and courses in the innovation and entrepreneurship cluster.
In terms of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program there is no restriction.
If the courses or project do not fit into the curriculum, they can be taken at additional credit points (that is, finishing the degree with a surplus of credits).
In some cases, it may be possible to ensure that the additional credit points do not involve payment. Each case will be considered on its own merits.
