Unit for Social Involvement​

Social cultural involvement of students and faculty members is a central task undertaken by the Ruppin Academic Center. To our understanding, the role of the Academy is to instill and acquire knowledge anchored in communities and people whose lives we learn from. This task can only be achieved through partnership and closeness with those people.

Funding for the unit's activities comes from three main sources: the Ruppin Academic Center budget, government budgets, and donations from philanthropic foundations.

The Unit for Social Involvement operates on four main tracks:

• Integrating students and faculty members into social activities in educational frameworks for youth in distress,
• Support for academic courses that integrate social action,
• Exposure of youth from the socio-economic periphery to the Academy,
• Activities in social associations in accordance with the initiatives of the students on the one hand and according to the requirements of community assistance on the other hand.

An experience was made in all actions:

• To expose the participants to social and economic issues which were not previously known to them and from different perspectives from those they have been accustomed to so far.
• To develop new ways of thinking and action that match their personal values.
• To examine phenomena from different angles and apply knowledge from one field to another.