- December 28, 2023
Map the System – Global Learning
SDG Highlights
Research Team: Pola Barkan, Richard Saleh, Alaa Ayoub, Hadas Glas Shimon, Moataz Abo-Moch, Michael Alvarez-Pereyre
Description
Students from the University’s Kayama Center, which aims to create positive social impact, participated in the competitive University of Oxford Map the System: global learning program and social innovation competition that equips students to use systems thinking to tackle social and environmental challenges. Haifa students addressed the issue Under-Representation of Arab-Israeli Entrepreneurship in Israel’s Start-Up Nation Economy. They made it to the finals, which included only 12 teams, out of dozens that competed.
Team members
- Kayama Center, University of Haifa
- Pola Barkan, Social Venture Development & Investment Manager at Hackaveret
- Hadas Glas Shimon, The Banking Supervision
- Ryan Saleh, Assistant District Attorney at Israeli Ministry of Justice
- Alaa Ayoub, Director for Arab society affairs, Attorney’s Office, Ministry of Justice
- Moataz Abo-Moch, Director of Entrepreneurship & innovation center, Baqa al-Gharbiyye
- Michael Alvarez-Pereyre, Lecturer & English Coordinator at the NB Haifa School of Design