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    • University of Haifa


      • The University of Haifa is the largest comprehensive research University in the north of Israel, with 18,000 students in 6 Faculties and 52 academic departments. As the largest research university in Israel’s northern region and the most diverse in the country, the University of Haifa is a leader in providing student support services to minority, disabled, and female students from the periphery. The University of Haifa has founded various units as to promote social inclusion of excluded communities in Israeli society: Career Consulting; Psychological unit; Accessibility of Service for students with physical disabilities as well as learning and orientation difficulties; Academic Excellence which provides a range of counselling and support services aimed to allow students with special needs, new immigrant and minority to access higher education and promote students’ academic success. Being committed to academic research, University of Haifa established a special program within Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies for investigating developmental disabilities. The University has launched an ambitious program named Flagship Program which seeks to promote solidarity and social inclusion of excluded communities in Israeli society. It expresses the University’s commitment to academic as well as social excellence, promoting values of multiculturalism and community involvement. The Flagship Project is an institution-wide effort that encompasses faculty, students and University staff. In essence, we work through collaboration with organisations such as the municipality, community centres, and NGOs to develop social projects, courses and research with the community in four neighbourhoods in the western part of Haifa. The activities assist diverse populations such as youth, senior citizens, and people living in poverty, immigrants, Jews and Arabs. The project has been awarded two consecutive grants from the Council of Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) and is considered the leading project in its field.(PBC), and is considered the leading project in its field.as: youth, senior citizens, and people living in poverty, immigrants, Jews and Arabs. The project has been awarded two consecutive grants from the Council of Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) and is considered the leading project in its field.organisations such as the municipality, community centres, and NGOs to develop social projects, courses and research with the community in four neighbourhoods in the western part of Haifa. The activities assist diverse populations such as youth, senior citizens, and people living in poverty, immigrants, Jews and Arabs. The project has been awarded two consecutive grants from the Council of Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) and is considered the leading project in its field.The University of Haifa has founded various units as to promote social inclusion of excluded communities in Israeli society: Career Consulting; Psychological unit; Accessibility of Service for students with physical disabilities as well as learning and orientation difficulties; Academic Excellence which provides a range of counselling and support services aimed to allow students with special needs, new immigrant and minority to access higher education and promote students’ academic success. Being committed to academic research, University of Haifa established a special program within Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies for investigating developmental disabilities. The University has launched an ambitious program named Flagship Program which seeks to promote solidarity and social inclusion of excluded communities in Israeli society. It expresses the University’s commitment to academic as well as social excellence, promoting values of multiculturalism and community involvement. The Flagship Project is an institution-wide effort that encompasses faculty, students and University staff. In essence, we work through collaboration with organisations such as the municipality, community centres, and NGOs to develop social projects, courses and research with the community in four neighbourhoods in the western part of Haifa. The activities assist diverse populations such as youth, senior citizens, and people living in poverty, immigrants, Jews and Arabs. The project has been awarded two consecutive grants from the Council of Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) and is considered the leading project in its field.

      • Professor Hanan Alexander

        DARE Project coordinator

        Internationally known Professor of Philosophy of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education, he has headed the University of Haifa International School since 2000 and was the dean of students between 2013-2017. A former lecturer in Education at UCLA, Head of Haifa University’s Department of Education, editor of the journal Religious Education, and Goldman Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley, he is also a senior Fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a Visiting Fellow of St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge. He has authored or edited seven books and more than 120 articles on philosophy of social science, citizenship, religion and spirituality in education.


        Dr. Rachel Peer

        DARE Project Manager


        I became the DARE project manager in October 2017, following the founding project manager Galit Caduri-- who left very big shoes to fill! Soon enough I understood that the DARE consortium and team was a very special group, and I too felt a part of this multi-cultural family. I received my B.A. from Columbia College, my M.A. from Hebrew University, and my Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University. I study how religious Jews, Christians, and Muslims relate to the theory of evolution, and I have been working to promote evolution education in Israeli schools that also offers a welcoming view of religious commitment. This subject relates to the principals of DARE in terms of how open IHE are willing to be to embrace and educate all citizens. I am married to Ian, a rabbi and lawyer, with whom I moved from the U.S. to Israel in 1999. We are currently trying to raise and be inspired by five Israeli-American children spanning the ages of 1-19—what an adventure!


        Ms. Kalanit Kleemer

        DARE local coordinator

        Kalanit is the manager of the Unit for Academic Excellence in the Dean of Students Office at the University of Haifa since 2015, where she coordinates the academic support offered to all B.A. students. She has been working at the University for 17 years in a number of positions, including as the coordinator of the GLP (Global Law Program) through the Law School, and the Erasmus Mundus programs on camps through the Rector's Office. Kalanit hold a B.A. in general history and art history, as well as an M.A. in art history with a thesis on Rubens and Women's Fashion, both from the University of Haifa. Working as the local coordinator of project DARE has contributed to Kalanit's goal of finding new, creative, and effective ways of reaching and helping students.


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    • Gordon College of Education



      • Established in 1953 and is accredited to bestow the B.Ed. and M.Ed. degrees.  Located in Haifa, GACE serves Israel's northern peripheral areas and populations.  GACE is a multicultural institution and its 2,500 students and over 250 faculty members represent the ethnic, religious and cultural groups of Israel's North (Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Druse).  It is the only teaching college that has a program to teach about Druze Traditions for the Druze Educational trend of Israel's Ministry of Education.  Dedicated to excellence in teacher training and involvement in the community, GACE was the first teaching college in Israel to establish a Multicultural Educational Resource Center -MERC.   Its goals include training teachers in cultural diversity and developing educational programs which promote pluralistic values and leadership based on mutual respect and understanding and enhance attitudes of tolerance and co-existence among different groups in Israel. GACE has implemented community programs in Israel that include a mentoring program for Ethiopian Children, tolerance educational programs in Hebrew and in Arabic-speaking schools, a program that empowers Ethiopians to be teachers in Israel.  GACE is coordinating a TEMPUS IV 5th Program Development of an International Model for Curriculum Reform in Multicultural Education and Diversity Training (DOIT).  This program promotes multicultural education in teaching training programs in Israel and Georgia.   In addition, GACE is a member in 6th call Life Long Learning in Applied Fields (LLAF).
        DARE Project Responsibilities:

        • Organising the needs analysis for developing outreach programs for disadvantaged populations in northern Israel.
        • Establishing strategies to reach a wider range of populations that have not had the opportunity for HEI education.
        • Establish support programs at their HEI that will be geared to marginal populations (e.g. minorities, new immigrants, women, haredi populations, etc.) that have not had the opportunity for academic studies.
        • Help develop innovative online distant learning courses that will enable disadvantaged populations who have difficulty in studying daily on campus, to receive academic credit for courses through studying at home.
        • Establish a sustainability and dissemination plan that can be modelled by other institutions.
        • Disseminating the program strategies to other academic institutions
        • Inter-tempus/ERASMUS+ coaching based on its coordinating experience as well as the experience of being a partner in international programs.



      • Dr. Rhonda Sofer

        Director of GACE's Multicultural Educational Resource Center and Center for International Relations and Programs

        An applied anthropologist (BA, Fairleigh Dickinson U and M.Phil. and PhD from Rutgers), Coordinator of Tempus Project DOIT, Director of GACE's Multicultural Educational Resource Center and Center for International Relations and Programs and is responsible for international projects.  Lecturing in HEI in Israel since 1979, Dr. Sofer has trained thousands of Jews and Arab students and teachers and has provided workshops for academic faculty in universities on the topic of teaching in a multicultural classroom.  She is involved in developing innovative teaching pedagogy for academic faculty.  She is also the coordinator of a TEMPUS IV fifth call program DOIT. DOIT promote multicultural education, diversity and children's rights in teacher-training programs.   In addition, she is a participating as a partner in the TEMPUS IV sixth call program LLAF which promotes life-long-learning in applied fields.  Dr. Sofer is responsible for the development of courses and inter-tempus coaching for LLAF.


        Dr. Rabia Husisi Sabek

        Lecturer in Gordon College

        A lecturer in Gordon College.  PhD thesis researched Arab and Jewish youth focusing on peace education and the legitimization of the “other” narrative the personal national narrative. In addition, I work as an instructor at the humanistic center in Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot and teaching a course on education towards peace for two years at Alcasami Academic College. Today she is researching the relations between Jews and Arabs at institutions of higher learning and promotes education towards cultural sensitivity among Israel’s’ diverse populations.

        Dr. Roxana G. Reichman

        Expert in Comparative Education and Educational Administration and Policy

        Expert in Comparative Education and Educational Administration and Policy (PhD from SUNY State U of New York at Buffalo, 1996). Dr. Reichman has published in the field of multicultural education in higher education and in teacher education institutions in Israel.   As an expert in curriculum development, she has developed and taught many courses in this field for pre-service and in-service teachers, at undergraduate as well as graduate level.  Working at GCE since 1996, she has held several administrative positions for GCE Graduate and Undergraduate programs in teacher education, including Academic Head as well as Head of The MEd program in mentoring.


        Dr. Rita Khoury

        Lecturer in Gordon College (Special Education)

        A lecturer in Gordon College, PhD (Special Education), her research is about the quality of life of families who have a child with Tourette Syndrome (TS). For the first time, families of children with TS in Israel are enabled to voice their concerns and difficulties, explaining how they face challenges and even build socio-psychological wellbeing because of their coping with their child’s disability. Her book "Family Quality of Life of Families who have a child with TS", published in 2010 in U.K. In addition, she is director of a center for diagnosis of children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Nazareth in the Galilee. She also a Lecturer in at the Technion Sciences University in Haifa, a qualification course for professionals Coaching.  Her academic background includes a B.A. in Social Work and M.A. in School Counseling and special education.  As an expert in Teaching and didactic method, she has developed and taught many courses in this field for pre-service and in-service teachers. she has held several high positions such as the Head of Special Education Department in Sachnin Teachers' College, Head of special education department for teachers' training Instructor and workshop facilitator, Stuff development, Team work, Implementation of new educational approaches in special education, addressing children with special needs, and inclusion of children with special needs in regular schools, in Mar Elias Teachers' Center, Eblin, Galilee. In addition, she was the head of Project for Arab children with LD and their families in Alonim Centre for children with LD, Kibbutz Alonim.


        Dr. Rabia Basis

        Head of the education for a Druze City (Daliet HaaCarmel) and is on the Committee for access to Higher Education for the Israeli Arab Population

        Has her doctorate from the Department of the Hebrew Language of Haifa University where she also received an M.A. in Educational Leadership. She was head of the education for the Druze City of Daliet HaaCarmel and is on the Committee for access to Higher Education for the Israeli Arab Population.  She is a member of the Tracenberg Committee for Social and Economic Change in Israel and has been on many and state and educational committees that have dealt with a wide range of social issues.


    • Achva Academic College


      • Located outside Kiryat Malachi in Israel’s rural southern periphery, Achva Academic College uses education, research, and community involvement to fulfil two unique missions: To drive socio-economic mobility in Israel's struggling southern district and to promote a stronger, inclusive, and multicultural Israeli society. Achva makes higher education accessible to vulnerable populations such as Ethiopian, Bedouin, Ultra-Orthodox and physically and mentally challenged Israelis. As the College places, special emphasis on diversity and inclusion, our mission is to empower the young generation of this district through education, research, and community involvement. While maintaining high academic standards, we provide students with crucial support such as mentoring, academic skills workshops, facilities and technologies for students with disabilities, and culturally adapted learning environments. Achva’s bachelor degree students train in professions that are crucial to raising the socio-economic standards in their home locales, such as education and the natural and social sciences. They earn degrees in the College’s two undergraduate Schools: The Education school and the Sciences school. Students can also pursue M.Ed. degrees in Achva’s School of Graduate Studies in several specialised fields. Achva Academic College provides students with special needs with a supportive environment to allow them to complete their studies. The Special Needs Center provides various facilities and services, including a technological learning center, a mentorship and tutoring program and an electronic guidance system for the visually impaired. The college also offers a B.Ed. degree that is given entirely in Arabic, as well as special programs and tutoring for Arab and Bedouin students in the regular programs who may need additional assistance.  Other programs are tailored to the needs of the older, working students or to those of young single mothers.Finally, Achva Academic College is committed to social involvement and runs programs for the population living in the vicinity of the college. These programs include a mediation study program which will lead to a grassroots mediation center in Kiryat Malachi, and tutoring project aimed towards helping local teens successfully pass their matriculation exams, among others.

        DARE Project Responsibilities:

        • Organising the needs analysis for developing outreach programs for disadvantaged populations in the northern Negev region of Israel.
        • Developing and disseminating special programs for specific minority groups
        • Establishing strategies to reach a wider range of populations that have not had the opportunity for HEI education.
        • Establish support programs at their HEI that will be geared to marginal populations (e.g. minorities, new immigrants, women, haredi populations, etc.) that have not had the opportunity for academic studies. 
        • Help develop innovative specific courses that will enable disadvantaged populations who have difficulty in studying daily on campus, to receive academic credit for courses by studying in specialised and needs-tailored programs


      • Dr. Etty Grobgeld

        Rector of Achva Academic College

        Holds a PhD degree in chemical physics from the Weitzman Institute. In addition to her appointment as Rector of Achva Academic College, Dr. Grobgeld holds academic and administrative positions both at the college and at other educational institutions, including an instructor at the Mofet Institute for research, curriculum and program development for teacher educators, and coordinator for the National Forum of Academic Centers at Teacher Colleges. The focus of her present-day research is in the academic management and the promotion of teaching in higher education.


        Dr. Michal Revivo-Steiner

        Dean of students

        Received her PhD cum laude from the School of Business Administration at Ben-Gurion University, specialising in entrepreneurship among the mentally challenged. As Dean of Students, Dr. Revivo-Steiner spearheads all special programs and projects aimed at encouraging and enabling a myriad of populations to achieve a higher education.  In addition to her management responsibilities, Dr. Revivo-Steiner serves as a lecturer at Achva Academic College, teaching Micro and Macro Organizational Behavior, as well as Human Resources Management.


        Dr. Saleem Abu-Jaber

        Academic advisor for the Arab student population

        Holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic culture from Tel-Aviv University, and a PhD in Middle Eastern history from St. Petersburg University. Formerly head of the Arabic department at Achva Academic College, at present Dr. Abu-Jaber is a lecturer and acts as the academic advisor for all to the Arab student body at Achva Academic College. He is also a lecturer and instructor at Al- Qasemi Academic College of Education, Baqa El- Gharbieh, and director of the Centre for the Study of Arabic language and Instruction, at Kaye College of Education, Be'er- Sheva.


    • Sapir Academic College


      • Over 9,000 students are currently enrolled in a wide variety of departments at Sapir College. More than half of them are studying for an undergraduate degree in one of many original and unique tracks in Israel, which position Sapir as the largest public college in Israel. Sapir is located at the south periphery of Israel with a large minorities population among students and lecturers. Sapir Academic campus is one of a kind in Israel, home to 12 different institutions of education ranging from first grade to a seniors' day center. As such, Sapir is at the heart of large community center for education services in the south of Israel. Among members of Sapir’s teaching faculty are outstanding lecturers from Israel’s leading academic circles, including dozens of professors and hundreds of experienced lecturers and researchers. The college's main attractions are its openness for new quality education programs with an innovative human approach. Sapir offers a wide range of different disciplinary studies includes:

        • Software Systems & Computer Science, Technological Marketing, Industrial Management and Control, Logistics and Operations
        • Law, Economics & Accountancy, Human Resources Management, Administration and Public Policy, Humanities and Social Sciences, Economics & Management, Social Work.
        • Cinema and TV Art, Communications, Cultural Studies
        • Practical Engineers & Technology Programs (Biotechnology, Interactive Communications, Sound Systems, Digital photography and media, Architecture and interior design, Industrial Design, Civil Engineering, Software systems and computers, Electronics, Water Technologies, Electricity, Chemistry).

        Sapir aims to build focus on international leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, and best academic practices. Its Leading academic administration has designed a set of programs to give students, lecturers, academicians as well as practitioners, many of the skills and knowledge they need to build their careers, hand in hand with improving their environment and contributing their share to the wide society.

        DARE Project Responsibilities:

        Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the technological platform of the project, using its vast experience and expertise in international programs (Tempus and Erasmus) and adapt mainstream technologies to meet the specific needs of the DARE project and beyond.

      • Dr. Hanan Maoz

        Head of the International Programs Office



        A senior lecturer at Sapir College in the Technology-Marketing Department and in Tel-Aviv University at the Industrial Engineering Department. Dr. Maoz is leading the ERASMUS+ international projects operations in Sapir College with a wide range of education initiatives and services for students, lecturers and the community surround. His main academic research focuses on Management of ICT, including applied research in Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Computing, Software Investments and ICT for Education. During the past few years, Dr. Maoz initiated few Industry-Academic-Circles in various in Israel and in Europe, to build new international curricula and research, based on constructivist approaches with distance –Learning activities.


        Ariella Helwing Daniel

        Accessibility Center Director



        Ariella is a senior diagnostician and specialist in learning disabilities. As director of the accessibility center at Sapir she believes that the student's scholastic success and personal well-being is possible in a supportive and accepting environment. Further, it is possible to create a meaningful learning experience and to promote supportive learning environments through systematic work that combines a multi-disciplinary team with students’ active participation. Ariella and her team promote accessibility in the field of teaching and learning, as well as in the development of accessible physical infrastructures. This approach is based on the principles of equal rights and equality of opportunity in education. The Center's staff operates an open-door policy and invites students to contact, consult, and share dilemmas and thoughts. The Center assists students in providing tools for learning, individually, collectively, and in a unique academic course that deal with learning skills. Come and visit us!