Bar-Ilan Centre for Smart Cities

Bar-Ilan Centre for Smart Cities is an ecosystem for smart city development. Scientists, entrepreneurs, municipalities, solution providers and citizens work together to better understand the city’s needs and find appropriate solutions. The university campus acts as a living lab, where researchers and solution providers can test their ideas and solutions and get feedback from the end users; i.e., citizens. Cooperation between scientists and solution providers improves the solutions and helps in creating a new knowledge by both scientists and vendors. The Center for Smart Cities hub services provide a home for digital and innovative SMEs to excel. These SMEs are provided with the infrastructure for technology-testing of their solutions, receiving financing advice, market intelligence acquiring skills and training on smart cities and their needs as well as networking opportunities. The hub’s personnel are available for consultation and assistance in brainstorming, networking, and training. Our team includes experts in Entrepreneurship, digital technologies, funding and finance, market intelligence urban planning and to facilitate the SMEs connection to the municipalities