Tel Aviv, November 16, 2022: – Start-Up Nation Central – a non-profit that promotes the Israeli innovation ecosystem around the world – welcomed a delegation from Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) this week to promote greater partnership between the innovation ecosystems in both countries.

Winners of the Climate Solutions Prize are:
Start-Up Track and Challenges: SolOr, Seevix Material Sciences, Marine Edge, Styletech, Smart Resilin, Red Solar Flower and Copprint
Research Track: Prof. Avner Rothschild, Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi, Prof. Malachi Noked
The Climate Solutions Prize, a joint initiative by JNF Canada, Start-Up Nation Central, and KKL-JNF, held the Climate Solutions Festival, where the winners were announced

Finalists of the Climates Solutions Prize, awarding over $2 million to researchers and startups with solutions to climate change, are revealed by JNF Canada, Start-Up Nation Central, and KKL-JNF
The winners will be announced at the Climate Solutions Festival, a large-scale global summit with a unique showcase of innovative solutions, on October 26, 2022 at Hulda Forest – register here

Over 300 applications from Israeli startups and academic researchers entered the prize competition

The “Alzheimer Challenge” was a competition for startups intended to encourage development of technology that can solve one of the biggest challenges posed by Alzheimer’s– diagnosing the disease in its early stages

Despite global economic slowdown, there was a 250% increase in job openings for non-technological positions in high-tech in Israel, creating opportunity for integration into high-productivity jobs in the industry

Start-Up Nation Central, CEO Avi Hasson presented an overview of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and how it is addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Israeli Start-up companies gave innovation demos of their technologies emphasizing emerging markets partnerships and solutions

CASABLANCA, May 26 - A new era of Israel-Morocco Business ties has launched following the successful “Morocco-Israel Connect to Innovate” conference which took place in Casablanca this week. The event, co-organised by Start-Up Nation Central, a non-profit organization that promotes Israeli innovation around the world and Morocco’s CPR, brought together government officials and 250 business leaders from the two countries and focused on ways to collaborate in the agrifood-tech, watertech, energy, logistics, and human capital sectors. These are areas of focus in H.M. King Mohamed VI’s multi-year economic and social roadmap, The New Development Model.

13 MOUs signed during opening ceremony of the first-of-its-kind conference dedicated to developing innovative solutions to common challenges shared by the two countries.

A new study by Start-Up Nation Central and Shenkar, examining the perception of how design contributes to business performance in the Israeli ecosystem, reveals that two thirds of investors think Israeli companies invest less than their foreign counterparts in design and that investors do not recognize the full potential of design, ranking it lower in significance than other parameters such as quality of team or technological innovation