Finally, we were able to welcome our first Erasmus+ Staff Training participants back to the University of Innsbruck!
AIANI was happy to welcome Prof. Rachel Dekel and Oz Nackar from our partner institution the Bar-Ilan University (BIU). Prof. Dekel, the academic head of the International School at BIU, and Mr. Nackar, the Director for Student Exchange spent a week at the University of Innsbruck to learn more about AIANI, the International Services at the University of Innsbruck, as well as about student exchange procedures, workflows, experiences etc.
They met with several colleagues to discuss structures, policies, possible solutions to challenges and to exchange ideas, perspectives, and methods.
They also met up with one of our exchange students from Bar-Ilan University, who is currently working on her PhD research thesis at the University of Innsbruck.

Thankfully, the weather also allowed our guests to enjoy the city as well as the surrounding mountains and some local food.

„One has to switch from the view of judging to the view of observing, in order to understand a different perspective and the meaning of the land of milk and honey,“ said the photographer Israel Ariel from Jerusalem at the Finissage of the photo exhibition „Promised Land – Israel between Vision and Reality“. His photographs were shown at the Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck for four months.

Together with the co-organizers of the exhibition and accompanying guest lectures, Prof. Gabriele Werner-Felmayer (MUI) and Dr. Noam Zadoff (LFUI), the AIANI-Team was glad to welcome the artist back to Innsbruck for a small closing reception of the exhibition.
AIANI wants to take this opportunity and thank the co-organizers as well as the sponsors of the photo exhibition and the five guest lectures. All events could take place, despite very challenging and less than ideal circumstances. Thank you for your support!

• The Förderkreis 1669 of the University of Innsbruck
• The Research Platform Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI)
• Disability Studies, University of Innsbruck and the Förderverein bidok
• The Faculty of Theology for hosting the exhibition

A special THANK YOU to Prof. Dr. Gabriele Werner-Felmayer, Institute of Biological Chemistry at the Medical University of Innsbruck and Head of the Bioethics Network “Ethucation” and Dr. Noam Zadoff, Israel Studies, Department of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck, for co-hosting the event series as well as the artist Israel Ariel for showing his work and sharing his vision about the diversity of the “Promised Land” with us in Innsbruck!