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Lecturers and educators, students from several colleges, universities, and youth organizations from Israel, Morocco, and Europe gathered for a closing conference marking three years of cross-border educational collaboration under the IMPACT project.

Daniel Samarjian, a Computer Science graduate and app developer at the MAIA Lab within the Department of Digital Medical Technologies at HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, has taken first place at the NEXT-I Hackathon, organized by the Research, Development and Innovation Center of Ichilov Medical Center, together with his team. This year's hackathon challenged participants to transform real clinical problems into practical solutions that improve the quality of patient care.

HIT Holon Institute of Technology is laying the groundwork for the future of medical technology with the establishment of a unique faculty that brings together engineering, technology (hardware and software), design, and the life and medical sciences under one roof.

Students and a faculty member from HIT's Faculty of Design, in collaboration with Schneider Children's Medical Center, have developed a gamified diagnostic system that enables neurosurgeons to obtain accurate cognitive data from children who are difficult to engage transforming the pre-surgical assessment process.

For eleven consecutive years, industrial design students at HIT Holon Institute of Technology have been creating special Purim costumes for children who use wheelchairs and walkers, part of an ongoing and deeply moving collaboration with Beit Issie Shapiro.

In an unprecedented educational initiative, HIT Holon Institute of Technology and the Holon Municipality have launched a pilot program placing the institute’s students in local preschools to ignite a love of science from early childhood.

Dr. Galit Wellner, from the School of Multidisciplinary Studies, set out to understand how an ‘ethics of care’ approach can be designed to create algorithms which detect, identify, block, and engage users as a means to mitigate the negative effects of fake news.

Dr. Maya Usher from the Faculty of Instructional Technologies has been awarded a 350,000 NIS grant for three years, through an open call for proposals from the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education, for personalizing teacher learning through artificial intelligence in 2024.

Research conducted by Dr. David Elmakis and graduate student, Daniella Cohen, introduces an innovative approach to quantifying total reliability of photovoltaic systems, enhancing potential for economic and technological optimization.

Head of the Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Optics Laboratory (AIMOL) in the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, on being awarded a prestigious research grant by the Israel Innovation Authority.

Warm congratulations to Dr. Hadas Lorber, Head of the Institute for Applied Research in Responsible Artificial Intelligence at HIT, on her prestigious invitation to the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the U.S. State Department.

Q&A with Dr. Yuval Dorfan, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.