Chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem visiting the University of Vienna

Rector Heinz Engl received on May 21, 2019 Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) at the University of Vienna. Both were pleased with the successful cooperation that has existed for more than a quarter of a century between the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). The subject of the conversation between Rector Engl and Chancellor Ben-Sasson was the further development of the Strategic Partnership, among others via joint summer schools in the fields of Jewish Studies and Business & Innovation.

Renowned Research University

The prestigious Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a leading research university in Israel and has 8 Nobel Prize winners. Founded in 1918, the university covers almost all areas of the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences and has around 23,000 students.

Strategic Partnership since 2015

Since the expansion of the joint university agreement into a Strategic Partnership in 2015, both partner universities have granted the cooperation a privileged status: On the research level, Joint Seminars provide a framework to (further) develop research projects and prepare project proposals. Since 2015, a total of twelve such joint seminars have been held. In addition, the new mobility program Mobility Fellowships promotes research stays of scientists of the University of Vienna at the Strategic Partner Universities.

The Non-EU Teaching Mobility program enables networking on the teaching level: The incoming program supports teaching visits from non-European partner universities (3 weeks to 3 months) at the University of Vienna.

Joint classrooms

In the area of student mobility there are cooperation activities within the framework of the Non-EU Student Exchange Program, the Erasmus + International Mobility and the annual Prof. Dr. med. Peter Landesmann German Language Scholarships Program, which offers Summer German courses at the University of Vienna for HUJI students. In 2018, a Joint Classroom, an innovative joint teaching project between the Institute of Old Testament Science and Biblical Archeology at the University of Vienna and the Department of Archeology of the HUJI took place.

As part of his visit to Vienna, Chancellor Ben-Sasson also spoke as keynote speaker at the presentation of the book "Zionistenkongresse in Wien" by Evelyn Adunka at the Wiener Musikverein, an event of the Embassy of the State of Israel in Austria together with the Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich and the Wiener Musikverein.