CEO of Ort: "The world has learned to understand that technological education is the key to economic resilience. Another cut will mark our end as a global technological power"
Ort Israel, the largest scientific-technological education network in Israel, will invest over a million dollars from its budget for the next school year, in establishing advanced technological and scientific infrastructures in its institutions. This was announced today by the CEO of Ort, Zvi Peleg, against the background of the conclusions of the Davrat report and the policy of cuts in the education budget in general and in the technological education budget in particular.
The money will be used to establish innovative laboratories in schools and colleges of the network throughout the country, in the fields of biomedical engineering, biotechnology, mechatronics, space and science. Recently, Ort invested about one million dollars, which it raised from abroad, in establishing a robotics laboratory, the only one of its kind in Israel, at the Ort Harmelin College in Netanya.
According to Peleg, "the scope of the cut in technological education is greater than the scope of the cut in theoretical education; This is a severe blow to Israel as a global technological power. Instead of using technological education as a lever for the development of the country and the development of its main resource - the future generation, the government is cutting back on it time after time and actually cutting back on Israel's future and prestige. In all the countries of the world they learned to understand that technological education is the key to economic establishment. The Israeli government continues to ignore the global changes."
"Ort Network", added Peleg, will deepen and expand its work in the fields of its flag - science and technology - while utilizing its resources and connections in Israel and the world, with the belief that by waving this flag it is contributing to Israel's economic strength.
The Ort Israel network currently manages 160 educational institutions, including comprehensive schools and technological and academic colleges all over the country, in the state and state-religious sector. About 90 students study in the network's institutions and it employs 7,000 teachers and administrative staff. Ort's annual budget is about one billion shekels.
The first robotics center of its kind in Israel will be established at the Ort Harmelin College of Engineering in Netanya - about $XNUMX million
It will be used for the studies of engineers to build remote-controlled robots for civil and military industries
The Ort Harmelin College of Engineering in Netanya is establishing an advanced robotics center, the first of its kind in Israel, with an investment of over a million dollars.
The center will be used for studying engineers to build and operate various types of robots, such as stationary and mobile tiny robots, driven by remote control, which will be used in civil and military industries, such as fighting and fire detection.
The uniqueness of the robotics center will be in the combination of the various majors in the college in the preparation of interdisciplinary projects in robotics. For example, students from electronics, mechatronics and computer majors will work as one development team, while at a later stage students from industry and design majors will be integrated into the team, as is customary in the most advanced industries in the world.
Harmelin College of Engineering has been training engineers and technicians in various technological fields since 1972. The college is attended by outstanding students within the technological reserve and those who wish to join the IDF, as well as IDF graduates who, through high-level technological studies, will be able to be absorbed into the labor market. The college maintains collaborations with many high-tech companies in the Israeli economy, including Ashad Robotech, Orbit, Infineon, Motorola Semiconductor, Cytex Vision and Cisco, of which Harmelin even serves as its regional branch.
The money for the establishment of the robotics center was raised by the director of Ort Hermlin College, Dr. Carmela Dekal, from friends of the college abroad and the Foundation. According to Dekel, in the future the establishment of a CIM (Computerized Integrated Manufacturing) laboratory is planned, which will include one of the most advanced robotic production lines in the country and a department for independent mobile robots.
