The Erasmus program is a European Union (EU) exchange program established in 1987. Ever since the first year, when 3,200 students from 11 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom) participated, the program has been evolving constantly. Today, Erasmus+ (or Erasmus Plus), which was started in January 2014, offers a wide range of opportunities in higher education, vocational education and training, school education, adult education, youth, and sport. The exchange part of the European Union’s Erasmus+ program is known as International Credit Mobility (ICM). It is one of the most commonly-used components...

Academics planted the seeds of collaboration in Bahrain recently, strengthening ties started with the Abraham Accords. Bar-Ilan University (BIU) was one of four Israeli universities to visit Bahrain at the end of June on a mission to develop partnerships with academic institutions in the country. This trip followed the successful meeting with Ambassador Khaled Yousif al-Jalahma, Bahraini ambassador to Israel, at BIU in February 2022. Read More. In between meetings, the group was treated to a visit to the recently renovated synagogue in Manama, hosted by Ambassador Houda Nonoo, former Bahraini Ambassador to the USA and one of the leaders...

We are happy and proud to announce that two of our international students made it onto the Bar-Ilan University Dean’s List of 2022. Xiuyue Lu from China and Jegors Krisbergs from Latvia are both undergraduate students in communication and political science. We wish them both luck and all the best for what lies ahead!

Bar-Ilan University's International School students, researchers, and alumni are always happy to spread the word about their experiences at the university. They talk about their studies, the professors, social life on campus, why they love BIU, and more. Read about Reut Koltzker here or watch the video testimonials of the others below. Reut Koltzker, an Israeli who has chosen to study in English through the International School, is doing her BA in Linguistics and French Culture. She shares her feelings about studying at Bar-Ilan. I chose to study for this degree for the simple reason that I love languages and,...

Over the past year, under the guidance of Rabbanit Devorah Evron, BIU’s campus spiritual leader, BIU’s International School has offered international students an experiential journey into the Jewish-Israeli calendar and the holidays and lifecycle events that fill it. Last month, Shavuot was the holiday about which students learned. In addition, Chinese students shared their traditional holiday, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, with everyone. Read More.

Every month, Bar-Ilan University’s International School arranges various events for international students. Although there were no Jewish holidays in May, students were treated to an assortment of entertaining experiences this past month. These included an Israeli Night to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day; an Open Stage Night; and a tour of Haifa in the north of Israel. Read about these exciting events here.

Final-year undergraduate students in Bar-Ilan University’s Communication and Politics program participated in an interesting course called “Politics, Leadership, and Strategy” this semester. The course was taught by Dr. David Leitner, who lectures on these subjects in Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Political Science. Part of the course is a group project and this year, one group of students decided to do something different. Read More.

The “Israel Albums” project is designed to extract old albums from oblivion and present them to the public in new and intriguing ways. The aim is to provide an overall picture of the challenges of the period and the cultural and ideological perceptions of the State of Israel. The project, which recently won first place in the Digital Humanities Hackathon 2022 at the University of Haifa, was led by Prof. Galia Yanoshevsky of the Department of French Studies, Dr. Gila Prebor of the Department of Information Studies, and Efrat Miller Rotem, also of the Department of Information Studies at Bar-Ilan...

To help protect older adults from financial exploitation, researchers are working to understand who is most at risk. New findings from a study conducted by the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Bar Ilan University, recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (Increased Financial Altruism is Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Neurocognitive Profile in Older Adults), suggest that willingness to give away money could be linked to the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Read More.

The Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy for 2021 has been conferred on Prof. Gilbert Daniel Nessim by Italy’s president “for his remarkable contribution to the development of scientific and technological innovation and for his significant role in promoting academic cooperation between Italy and Israel.” Read More.