XT Engineering and Community Building

Our objectives

To address the future needs of the State of Israel, in two critical areas - engineering/high-tech and community engagement, by establishing an innovative professional academic training framework of engineers with social responsibility, alongside Social & Community Sciences students. This unique training program, the first of its kind in the world – is taking place at the new state of the art building, XT Engineering and Community Building , in an innovative building spanning 4,500 sqm which houses the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences, as well as the Social & Community Sciences study programs (such as Nursing Sciences, Social Work).

The underlying project rationale

In view of Israel’s future needs, Ruppin seeks to expand the Faculty of Engineering, as well as the Social & Community Sciences programs, engage and to change the modes of academic training to be better suited for the community and the future employment market.
The initiative addresses the current and future needs of the State of Israel in terms of the technological revolution and the growing market demand for engineers and high-tech people, alongside rapid increased demand for workers in the community professions due to the new challenges. There is already a current shortage in these fields - engineering, hi-tech and

Care givers - and the need is only expected to grow.

The uniqueness of our program is found in the combination we initiated between extensive training of young people in these professions together with implementing a significant change in the nature of academic training. According to our vision, tomorrow’s engineers will be professionals in the field of engineering, but also possess additional essential skills, such as the ability to work in a team with and alongside communities and an empathetic view of reality, and health professionals will have the skills to access vital medical information stored in many large databases (Big Data & Data Mining).
Our goal is to foster meaningful connections between the students in the computational and engineering fields and those in the society and community fields, to break down existing barriers between fields and training programs, and to equip today's young people with professional and personal tools that will help them excel in the future.