The Technion Timeline
Scroll through to see Technion's 100 years of achievements
The Technion joins the prestigious EuroTech Universities Alliance, in which the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are partners. EuroTech Universities Alliance is a strategic partnership between leading universities for science and technology, committed to excellence in research and the joint development of solutions to society’s challenges. Eurotech encourages collaborations in the fields of education, research, and innovation and attracts the necessary leading talent from all over the world to drive modernization and excellence, and impact…Read More
Autobrains is an Israeli growth-stage software company in the automotive space founded in 2019. Autobrains provides perception products for ADAS and fully autonomous driving with dramatically superior performance and lower compute requirements vs. market standard.
Prof. Uri Sivan is a physicist, a full professor in the Technion’s Faculty of Physics, and a nanotechnology researcher. He has served as the president of the Technion since October 2019. Sivan was born in 1955 and served as a pilot in the Air Force. He completed his BSc, MSc, and PhD at Tel Aviv University, and then worked for three years at the IBM Research Center in New York. Sivan joined the Technion’s Faculty of Physics in 1991, which was a kind of personal closure since his parents studied at the Technion after immigrating to Israel from Poland in…Read More
The Technion’s visitor center in Haifa was created in the spirit of the Technion’s history as an innovative institution that is a habitat for Nobel Prize-winning researchers and groundbreaking inventions. The center offers a rare experience to its visitors, based on the variety of activities of the Technion’s various departments. Alongside an interactive gallery, the center includes a central exhibit in which the design and content embody the development of the institution and its close connection with the fields of research and innovation. The presentation is organized as a series of “circles”: “Central Core Circle,” “Action Circle,” and “Inspiration and…Read More
The center was established in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and is headed by Prof. Shulamit Levenberg. The field of tissue printing aims to create tissues for transplantation for regeneration, i.e. regrowth. The ambition is to create three-dimensional pieces of tissue in the laboratory that can be inserted into the area of missing tissue or an organ and repair it. The innovative printer in the center prints 3D scaffolds for the cells that will grow into tissue on them. At the Technion, complex and precise artificial tissues are developed that significantly improve the absorption process in the target organ. This…Read More
H2PRO was founded in 2019 by leading hydrogen experts from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology): Dr. Hen Dotan, Prof. Gideon Grader and Prof. Avner Rothschild in collaboration with the team that founded Viber, Juno and iMesh. The company’s mission statement is to enable the wide scale adoption of sustainable hydrogen fuel by introducing a novel production technology E-TAC.
A dramatic scientific achievement published in the journal Nature: researchers at the Technion assembled a quantum microscope that photographs the flow of light for the first time in the world and used it to make a direct experimental observation of the light captured in a photonic crystal.
In 2020, a new research front was established at the Technion – the Human Health Initiative. This initiative views human health in the broadest terms, including research and education in diverse fields including basic science, clinical and applied science, engineering and design. The heart of the initiative’s activity is the mobilization and integration of all the disciplines that exist at the Technion, even those whose primary focus is not human health, to foster diverse and meaningful discoveries in this field.
In September 2021, the Technion, the Carasso family and the Carasso Motors company announced the establishment of the ” Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center.” The center will be used to promote technologies and innovation in food, enhance the teaching, and promote applied research and development in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion. “Eradicating world hunger and improving food security are among the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, as defined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals,” said Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan. “The Technion has the only faculty in Israel for research in food engineering,…Read More
In November 2021, the Technion inaugurated the new sports arena named for Amos Horev, general (res.) and president of the Technion in 1973-1982. The sports arena was established thanks to the generosity of companies, foundations, and close friends in Israel and around the world who know and cherish Amos and his great work. The new arena, which covers an area of 2,000 square meters, is a first class facility that provides the critical infrastructure for the important sports activities of thousands of students on the campus in Haifa.
The “pre-Technion” course, or as it is more popularly called – “summer camp,” is a course that helps new students close gaps in their knowledge of mathematics before the start of the school year and arrive ready for college classes. The course was launched for the first time in October 2021, in a joint initiative of Undergraduate Studies and Dr. Aviv Censor from the Faculty of Mathematics, with the understanding that many of the students starting at the Technion need to fill in some basic mathematics required in the academic world. The experience accumulated at the Technion shows that good…Read More
In November 2021, the “Campus Leaders” program was launched to develop a leadership reserve at the Technion. The program is chaired by Prof. Irad Yavneh, CEO of the Samuel Neaman Institute and a faculty member in the Taub Faculty of Computer Science. The program team leaders include Prof. Shulamit Levenberg, Zehava Laniado, Prof. Adi Salzberg, Prof. Yuval Garini, and Revi Ginossar. The program was founded at the initiative of Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan who recognized that the changing reality requires higher education institutions, including the Technion, to develop dynamic organizational leadership that knows how to identify and lead important…Read More
Tripod Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in proteasome dynamics and its manipulation for treating illnesses. It was established on the basis of comprehensive scientific research conducted by Nobel Prize Laureate Prof Aaron Ciechanover and his team.
Following the Abraham Accords, the first academic agreement of its kind was signed between the Technion and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. The president of the Technion: This is our duty to the future of the region. The president of the university from Morocco: It is a great honor – and a great responsibility.
“A scientific-technological breakthrough was recorded on the International Space Station, when astronaut Eytan Stibbe created optical components on the station using technology developed at the Technion. The experiment, a collaboration between the Technion and the NASA Ames Research Center, is part of the Ramon Foundation and Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology’s “Rakia Mission.” The innovative technology was developed at the Technion by the research team of Prof. Moran Bercovici from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The experiment is based on fluid mechanics and aims to fabricate lenses using “fluidic shaping” in microgravity conditions. If the liquid used is…Read More
Prof. Yoram Palti from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine received the Israel Prize for Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation for developing a groundbreaking method for electrical treatment of several types of cancer. He was a faculty member in the Department of Physiology at the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University when he was asked to move to Haifa and help establish a school of medicine. He joined to the faculty of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion and was appointed head of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. Four patents are registered under Prof. Palti’s name, and the…Read More
A festive ceremony was held to inaugurate the Marc Hamon Anières House – a dormitory for the 120 students of the Technion Anières Program. The program’s origins go back to the period after World War II when the ORT Institute was established in the town of Anières, Switzerland, near Geneva, to educate Jewish teenagers to become engineers. A few years after the closure of the Anières Institute, the program was brought back to life in Israel at 2012, at the initiative of Mark Hamon, a graduate of the original school in Switzerland, with the assistance of Robert Singer, who was…Read More
The “Topology and Physics on Mount Carmel” conference was dedicated to Prof. Emeritus Joshua Zak, winner of the 2022 Israel Prize and a member of the Faculty of Physics. As part of the event, a special session was held in Prof. Zak’s honor. The Technion’s Faculty of Physics organized the conference. According to the organizers, Prof. Eric Akkermans and Prof. Ari Turner, topology is an elegant field of mathematics that allows one to describe geometrical forms, wherever they occur, and the conference is designed to bring together many of the physicists who contribute creatively to the topology revolution in condensed…Read More
Mousssa Youdim (born in 1940) is a professor of neuroscience and the developer of the drug “Azilect”. He is the winner of the 2011 EMET Prize and the 2022 Israel Prize in the field of life sciences. The Israel Prize Committee stated that the award was given to Prof. Youdim in recognition of his pioneering, groundbreaking scientific achievements in the field of neuropharmacology. For decades, Prof. Youdim managed the Eve Topf Center for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Rapaport Faculty of Medicine. He published about 800 articles on various topics related to the brain, brain diseases, and the…Read More
The final of the state championship in indoor soccer: Ashdod Dolphins against the Technion – the return game. This final included: nine goals, two breakthroughs (and nearly another), a brace for the great foreign player from Costa Rica, a hat-trick for the captain, Igor de Paula, in the game of his life just before he raises the historic trophy, and an amazing crowd that filled the field to capacity creating a wonderful European atmosphere that proved respect pays back in a big way. The Technion scorers: Igor de Paula with three, Luis Jimenez with two, and Anan Ibrahim with one…Read More
The May-Blum-Dahl Human MRI Research Center in operates in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and serves researchers, professors, and students pursuing interdisciplinary research in a number of scientific and medical fields. The new center is unique in being located in a faculty of engineering which will significantly promote innovation at the forefront of research and technology and the development of solutions to important clinical problems. The Siemens MRI device was received with great excitement at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering!
The global software company PTC opened its new headquarters at the Technion as part of a broader collaboration, which includes an investment of NIS 15 million in the establishment of a unique research and development center within the Technion.
The program invites artists to the Technion to perform and present their works, lead projects and workshops for the entire Technion building, study and conduct joint research with researchers and students. The “Artist in Residence” program supports artists whose work involves research and experimentation, and combines the humanities, sciences, technology and engineering professions, and creates a discourse around the interfaces between these fields. Since its inception, Dr. Orit Wolf, Ms. Nardeen Srouji, Dr. Elad Schneiderman, Dr. Maayan Tsadka, and Mr. Maayan Elyakim have participated in the program.
H2OLL is a spinoff from the Technion (IIT), a new proprietary and innovative atmospheric moisture harvesting technology, capable of extracting moisture from the air by an absorption-desorption cycle. The new technology generates year-long pure and safe drinking water supply along with constant low energy requirements at all seasons and in any geographic area and time of the day. A proof of concept prototype has been built and is currently working at the Technion’s Environmental Technologies Yard, producing water since fall 2019. The academic spinoff is seeking a first-round investment. H2OLL technology is a product of more than five years of…Read More