IPS: The Israel Physical Society
The Israel Physical Society is a voluntary nonprofit society that acts to stimulate research and education in physics. The organization is open to all physicists (not only from Israel), including students and those who support research and education in physics.
In 2018–2019 the dean of the Feinberg Graduate School, Prof. Gilad Perez, and Dr. Meytal Eran-Jona conducted a nationwide student survey within the physics faculties in Israel, with IPS support. We surveyed all physics students, both undergraduate and graduate, in all Israeli universities. The findings were presented to the physics community at the IPS Annual Meeting, held at the Weizmann Institute of Science in February 2020. The findings were also presented to decision makers at all Israeli universities.
GENERA Network
The GENERA Network originated from the EU-funded Horizon 2020 GENERA project. Its vision is to support and improve gender equality policies in physics research organizations in Europe and worldwide. The network has more than 30 member organizations, including DESY (Germany), the Max Planck Society (Germany), the University of Limerick (Ireland), the University of Helsinki (Finland), INFN (Italy), the University of Cambridge (UK), the University of South Hampton (UK), the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and many more institutions.
The Weizmann Institute of Science has been represented in GENERA since 2018. Dr. Meytal Eran-Jona was appointed chair of the GENERA Network in September 2019.
GenderEx
GenderEx: Gender for Excellence in Research -Advisory Board: Prof. Yosef Nir and Dr. Meytal Eran Jona
Gender for Excellence in Research (GenderEX) is a project designed to build networks, exchange knowledge and engage best practices to stimulate the integration of the Sex and Gender Dimension in Research Content (SGDRC).
Israeli Hope in Academia
Israeli Hope in Academia, was launched in July 2016 as an initiative of the President, based on an appreciation of the unique social, economic and educational assets of academia and on the understanding that there is a need for lateral action complementing the special sectoral programs currently being operated by the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Council for Higher Education.
Israeli Hope in Academia operates in 40 academic institutions. The program works to instill a sense of partnership as a policy and an infrastructure.
May 2021, we celebrate at the President's House, Mr. Reuven Rivlin, five years of work and the achievements of the "Israeli Hope in the Academy" program, with Prof. Alon Chen, President of the Weizmann Institute.