Ever since the European Researchers' Night project initiated, our consortium used it to strengthen ties between the academic community and the public at large, bringing scientists to meet the public at eye-level. We are proud to say that along the years we have achieved that goal by running venues all over the country in both main cities and the periphery while partners also engaged the public by outreach activities at local pubs, cafes and community centers. Those achievements will continue to lead our way in 2018&2019 when running the ERN events countrywide by the leading academic institutions and the Ministry of Science, bringing scientists and the public to meet and celebrate science together.

Internationalization in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) utilizes policies and practices targeted to achieve academic benefits in teaching, learning, research, and industrial-societal cooperation. TEMPUS IRIS project successfully accomplished the goals of introducing and establishing the foundations for internationalization in Israeli state-funded colleges, thus improving their academic quality and competitiveness. IN2IT project builds on those solid foundations to bring internationalization to realization by modern operational initiatives. IN2IT aims to promote implementation of internationalization by developing innovative technological platforms to facilitate: (1) development and delivery of international curriculum by virtual teaching and learning; (2) utilization of interactive international hubs for communities of practice (CoP) of researchers; and (3) employment of global academy-industry/community cooperation.The collaboration of Israeli Colleges and EU Universities in IN2IT allows the Israeli partners to offer their knowledge in innovative technology and for the EU partners to contribute their experience in international academic activities.IN2IT outputs are: a framework to assess internationalization capability maturity level; ICT-based international academic programs including curriculum and supporting teaching materials; an interactive platform for CoPs; guidelines and pilot activities of international academy-industry cooperation; on-site and on-line seminars and conferences to disseminate the project results; training programs and user guides for application of technologies in academic international activities. Outcomes: developing internationalization capacity in the colleges; advancing accessibility to education in partner institutions; improving the quality and innovation of teaching, learning, research, and training in the colleges; increasing ties between Israeli and EU HEIs; enhancing the positioning of colleges in the HE arena.

The proposed project is built on a previous KA2/CBHE project – the Proteach project No.573877. In the previous project we developed the MIT (Multiplayer Induction Teams) model for amplifying beginning teachers’ voice during induction in order to sustain teachers’ retention. The model is based on a partnership between the academia, the school and related policy makers that meet once a month in the school to discuss pedagogical and managerial issues that arise from the beginning teachers' work. Although the role of the Mentors is evident in the MIT context, results show that they weren't involved enough with the induction process. In the PROMENTORS projects we will advance the MIT model for a new model of mentors training in Israel. The new model will combine innovative mentors training from EU that emphasis on peer group mentoring and other process that stem from groups' learning and collaborative meaning making. 9 Israeli HEIs and 4 EU partners supported by the Israeli MOE will develop and pilot 18 mentors training MITs to structure a new mentor training course that will be accredited, and will be certificated. The novelty of our approach from the Israeli HEIs perspective is that it brings faculty staff back to school to be part, lead and accompany day-to-day processes in schools through the MIT community. This make HEIs more relevant both for supporting BTs' work and for facilitating teachers’ professional development. The outputs of the project will be a the structured mentor training MITs model ready to be implemented in the israeli educational system. As the project fit both the Israeli MEO and the HEIs polices its impact is evident.

Following previous TEN years of successful implementation of European Researchers' Night in Israel we will have: o Venues covering the whole country. o Involvement of the academic community including Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), all major research universities, leading collages and three science museums. o Awareness campaign at national level managed and funded by the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. o Groups of junior-high and high-school students (ages 12-18) will be invited by each partner to take part in each venue. We are ready and proud to implement European Researchers' Night 2016 & 2017. • All of the partners involved in the project have the experience of running successful European Researchers' Nights events. • With the successive increase in number of visitors along the years and the reputation of the event we are expecting more than 55,000 visitors each year. • Same management as in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 successful events. • Proposal covers both 2016 & 2017 European Researchers' Night events.

With successive 14 years of successful NIGHTs, support (in time, efforts and funds) from the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology, more than 55,000 visitors a year, one Guinness World Record, 14 venues countrywide from Kiryat-Shmona in the very north to Eilat in the very south and a national TV, national radio and major newspapers coverage, our strong consortium, which consists of 13 major institutions in the Israeli academic community, is committed to European Researchers' Night success. All of the partners which will take part and operate 2020 European Researchers' Night event already have the experience and took part in previous European Researchers' Night events. Our consortium consists of the major research universities in Israel (including the Hebrew University and the Weizmann institute), leading research institutions, education collages and major science museums (including the National Museum of Science which will also coordinate the project for the 10th times in a row). Each partner in the project will invest its own funds (as always in ERNI since 2005) which also helps ensure partners' commitment for project success. Partners will also run activities with researchers outside of campuses. Researchers will visit local cafés, pubs and community centers to meet the public close to their homes. We find it very important to reach those who are not usually visiting university campuses and museums to increase the number of people having the opportunity to enjoy face-to-face meetings with researchers. This type of action had proved itself as very successful for tightening yearlong cooperation between researchers and the community which is a direct accumulative result of the European Researchers' Night project we are very proud of. The Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) will fully fund our national awareness campaign as part of its commitment to the project. MOST involvement will ensure a massive national coverage for the awareness part