Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track in Jewish education, from theory to practice, focus on the foundation concepts of social entrepreneurship and their application to Jewish education. In addition strategies for growing the market and of innovation will be studied in depth.

This track offers courses on the following subjects:

* Basic and advanced social entrepreneurship

* Creative, out-of-the-box thinking

* Fundraising

* Participation in a Social Accelerator facilitated by the Hebrew University center Innovation. Students will be required to develop an MVP (minimum viable product) with the potential of establishing an educational startup.

For the detailed course list click here

 

Students interested in specializing through this track must commit to studying 12 credits, out of the 36 credits of the total program, in courses of this orientation.

The following courses comprise the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track

 

Intensive Winter Sessions (in-class by Zoom) 6.2.2023 – 5.3.2023

 

 

Teacher

Credits

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluating social and educational programs (63028)

Dr. Yuval Ofec

1

Elective

Creativity and Innovation in Educational Organizations (63026)

Dr. Sharon Arieli

1

Elective

Practical Fundraising: Case Studies (63025)

David Gappel

2

Required

Innovative thinking in Education (63029)

 

Vered Resnick

1

Elective

Spring Semester: 12.3.2023 – 30.6.2023

 

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Jewish Education (63014)

Dr. Jonathan Mirvis

4

Required

Summer Semester (face to face) 9.7 – 20.7.2023

 

Teacher

Credits

 

 

Innovation in Jewish Education: From Theory to Practice (63024)

Dr. Amnon Dekel

2

Required

 

Learning in places (63021)

Ms. Hava Schwartz

2

Audited *

 

Venture Accelerator for Jewish Education (63027)

Dr. Amnon Dekel

2

Required

 

How does it work?

There are 4 required courses totaling 10 credits and 2 electives totaling 2 credits.

The 4 required courses must take place in this sequence:

  1. 63025 (winter zoom)
  2. 63014  (spring semester on- line)
  3. 63024 (summer semester)
  4. 63027 (summer semester)

Students must choose 2 of the 3 electives

  1. 63028 (winter zoom)
  2. 63026 (winter zoom)
  3. 63029 (winter zoom)

It is necessary to clarify that orientation courses, except course 63014, are unsuitable for a seminar paper.

If you have any questions, please contact us.

 

 

Students in this track may participate in course 63021 as “audit student”.