Organizations and governments benefit from the development of tailor-made professional tours that are designed in close cooperation with the client to meet specific objectives and expectations. These tours allow for a condensed study program (usually 7-10 days) for decision-makers, officials and executives whereby they are exposed to key highlights of the Israeli development experience in areas such as local economic development, municipal management, tourism, agriculture, wastewater, rural development, sustainable development, innovation in the environmental field, renewable energy and more.
*Please note that professional tours can be conducted in several languages in addition to English, including: Spanish, French, and Russian.
*Please note that professional tours can be conducted in several languages in addition to English, including: Spanish, French, and Russian.
See below for examples of past professional tours across a diverse range of topics:
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Renewable Energies, Water Technologies, Waste, Energy, Environment, Recycling & Infrastructures. Israel acts as an incubator for the clean tech sector. While water resources are scarce, Israel developed wastewater treatment technologies, drip irrigation systems and desalination solutions, with early development stages supported by Government programs, incubators, R&D centers and industrial leaders. As the sun shines all year long in Israel, start ups as well as larger scale companies developed solar thermal and photovoltaic energy for household, industrial and agricultural use. Projects such as; waste to energy, combined cycle and electrical and hybrid transportation, decrease our dependency on fossil energy.
Download a sample professional tour program. The program is based mainly on site visits, which include meetings with government and municipal officials, NGOs and the private sector. Participants see projects on-site, gaining experience and learning lessons first-hand that can later be implemented into development projects. The professional program exposes key highlights of the Israeli development experience in the specific subject.
Download a sample professional tour program. Since the early days of statehood, Israel has given high priority to adopting policies, establishing support structures, and encouraging initiatives aimed at generating economic growth and community building simultaneously. In response to decentralization, globalization and socio-economic changes in the last few decades, the development of local communities in spatial and socio-economic peripheries in Israel emphasized development from within the community. Through these processes, Israeli experts, communities and institutions gained experience in leveraging local assets (such as people's skills and talents, institutional capacities, civil society organizations existing infrastructure and natural resources) to collaboratively promote local economic development for the benefit of the local community. Within this framework, new tools were developed and implemented to integrate socially excluded groups in the development process.
Download a sample professional tour program. Israel is well known for its innovative irrigation systems. Among other water saving technologies in agriculture, Israel holds the worlds highest waste water recycling rate as 75% of its waste water is treated and reused for irrigation and alternative uses. At the same time, Israel's agricultural sector is characterized by intensive production systems which promote advanced technologies in the entire agricultural sector. The professional tour is designed to demonstrate solutions developed in Israel for improved agricultural production.
Download a sample professional tour program. Israel is characterized by arid and semi-arid climates, with a limited supply of surface fresh water resources, not sufficient to sustain the needs of the entire country. As a result, water management, water distribution, water reuse and shortage-related issues became a well-developed practice and a focal point for the development of numerous new management tools and Israeli technologies. Israel is a leader in innovative water management systems, water storage and distribution, water treatment, water efficiency for agriculture, wastewater recycling, large-scale water desalination, and more. For example, over 80% of wastewater is reclaimed mainly for agriculture - a rate unparalleled anywhere in the world. This professional tour aims at providing honorable delegates the best of Israel's water resource management systems and leading technologies.
Download a sample professional tour program. The state of Israel, often referred to as the "Start-Up Nation", has been recognized as a global leader, leveraging innovation, creativity, competitiveness and entrepreneurship for development. The country has the second highest concentration of high tech companies in the world, after the well-known Silicon Valley and the highest number of startups per capita.
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