Academy & Education

Our training center offers educational tours and workshops while participants experience first-hand one of Israel’s most unique regions.

Where you can find our courses

Why the Arava?

Eilat-Eilot transformed the southern Arava into a clean energy R&D center. This process has resulted in large solar fields, venture acceleration programs, a capital investment fund for technological investments, a verification center, and a demonstration village for network-disconnected technologies.

Our center works in collaboration with all regional organizations, and combines learning with tours and workshops.

Participants who come to the Arava earn a unique learning experience that combines high-tech with stunning views of picturesque landscapes, technological entrepreneurship and networking and exposure to the growing industry in the Eilot region.

Our Programs

Academic Courses

Credit points, senior lecturers and practical experience

Teacher Training

Get familiar with the world of clean energy and broaden your teaching

Tours & Seminars

Custom tailored seminars for your organization

Local Authority

For those who hold positions in local government

Activist Groups

Knowledge is power. Dive deep and learn more about clean energy in Israel.

Courses that reward the students with a BA and are held for a concentrated week in Arava, in the format of working in groups and preparing a joint project to produce a multidisciplinary and diverse discourse. The contents are updated and oriented to the challenges of the contemporary economy and market in Israel. The courses prepare the participants for a comprehensive holistic view, which combines various disciplines: development of Sustainable, planning and policy, integration of economic and environmental aspects, technological aspects and more.

Example topics

Open spaces, dual use of land, potential for private and public roofs, agrovoltai
Microgrid and energy independence
Waste treatment – policy and technological aspects
Regional cooperation around water and energy

Knowledge training for teachers on sustainability and clean energy issues and 3-day experiential seminars in the Arava for high school students on tours majoring in geography, physics, biology, environmental sciences and more.

The students go on tours, do research, learn about environmental challenges, meet researchers and travel in the area.

Example topics:

Local activism: the gas pipeline, oil drilling in Arava and other threats
Development versus conservation: threats to open spaces, development pressures, renewable energy projects in Arava
A developing world, populations disconnected from the grid and technological development for these populations
An escape game about the climate crisis and renewable energies
Solar water heating competition

Acknowledging the decisive role of local authorities as agents of change and leading political and practical processes in the public sphere. Understanding that energy is a field that goes beyond technology and also includs industry, economy, development and entrepreneurship.
Training courses that teach about entrepreneurship and policy, barriers to development in the fields of renewable energy and adaptation to immediate content such as the development of energy resilience with an emphasis on an off-grid scenario.

Example topics:

The structure of the electricity sector in Israel, policies, barriers and opportunities
Technological and policy aspects of the role of energy storage during calm days and emergencies
Public-private cooperation in the transition to a clean energy economy
Emissions reduction policy and innovative thinking regarding energy production and storage
Policy of energy independence in essential institutions for emergencies

Training on environmental entrepreneurship in communities and the role of residents in promoting sustainability goals in the local authority, neighborhoods and communities.

Example topics:

Environmental issues in the Gulf of Eilat
Civil associations for the protection of the environment in Eilat and Arava
Efficiency and local innovation
Coalition of Environmental Organizations and the Civil Struggle against EAPC
Idea development workshop

Tours in the Negev and the southern Arava up to Eilat, a visit to solar fields, a visit to experimental sites of companies developing technologies in the fields of climate technology, storage, energy efficiency, technologies disconnected from the grid, issues of open areas vs. development