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FoodTech | AgroTech | WaterTech The Technion

Green Technion – Accent on ‘Green’ at Israel’s Leading Technology Institute The Technion - one of Israel's leading science and technology research universities - established a Sustainability Frontier: a central body tasked with coordinating and expanding the university’s numerous programs that help mitigate climate change

“T he climate time-bomb is ticking,” António Guterres, the U.N.’s Secretary General says. At the Technion, a wide range of activities and resources are directed towards improving sustainability across a spectrum of fields – stretching from energy and transportation, to agriculture, food, materials and many others. To more efficiently oversee and coordinate all of these diverse ventures, the Technion established a Sustainability Frontier: a central body tasked with coordinating and expanding the university’s numerous programs that help mitigate climate change.

In addition to the relevant research pursued at almost every Technion department, the Sustainability Frontier’s purview includes academic courses and other educational

projects, as well as entrepreneurship and technology transfer, collaborations with both the public and private sectors, and more. It is headed by Prof. Avner Rothschild of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Green Research The scope of “green” research projects at the Technion campus is vast. Approximately 200 faculty members from many different fields, including chemistry, physics, biology, computer science, chemical engineering, materials engineering, food engineering, civil and environmental engineering, architecture and town planning, and more, are tackling the diverse challenges to our planet. They are working on converting solar energy into clean, storable hydrogen and electricity; designing biodegradable foams for packaging; utilizing microbiological additives to engineer "self healing" concrete; applying Big Data analytics to optimize indoor energy consumption behaviors; generating electricity from seaweed; and innovating nanofiber catalysts for the conversion of CO 2 into alternative fuel, to name just a few studies.

H 2 PRO: a new era of green hydrogen production. (L-R): Prof. Gideon Grader, Avigail Landman , Prof. Avner Rothschild and Dr. Hen Dotan - all from the Technion

Isra-Tech Israeli Technologies Magazine August 2023