BAR-ILAN CENTER FOR SMART CITIES
The Bar-Ilan Center for Smart Cities is recognized by the EU SMART SPECIALISATION PLATFORM as a Digital Innovation Hub providing necessary services and activities to promote the ecosystem’s growth. Therefore, it was added to the EU DIH Catalogue as a fully operational hub.
The Bar-Ilan Center for Smart Cities is an ecosystem for smart city development. Scientists, entrepreneurs, municipalities, solution providers and citizens work together to better understand the city’s needs and find appropriate solutions. The university campus acts as a living lab, where researchers and solution providers can test their ideas and solutions and get feedback from the end users: i.e., citizens. Cooperation between scientists and solution providers improves the solutions and helps in creating a new knowledge by both scientists and vendors.
The Center for Smart Cities hub services provide a home for digital and innovative SMEs to excel. These SMEs are provided with the infrastructure for technology-testing of their solutions, receiving financing advice, market intelligence acquiring skills and training on smart cities and their needs as well as networking opportunities.
The hub’s personnel are available for consultation and assistance in brainstorming, networking, and training. The team includes experts in entrepreneurship, digital technologies, funding and finance, market intelligence, urban planning and to facilitate the SMEs connection to the municipalities.
CONTACT INFORMATION
citiess@biu.ac.il
CAPSULA TAU
Capsula TAU is an accelerator & innovation center, which was established as a collaboration between the Fuel Choices & Smart Mobility initiative at the Prime Minister's Office and Tel Aviv University (TAU) and currently, is part of TAU. Capsula TAU is committed to positioning Israel as a significant entrepreneurship & innovation entity in the field of Smart Mobility. In addition, we are interested in cleantech and energy.
Capsula TAU is recruiting startups with functioning MVPs and accelerating these startups by connecting them to the industry and helping them to raise capital in a program based on proprietary methodology and connection to the academy.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Julia Shteingart - Managing Director
julia@capsula-tau.com