PO Box 820
Jerusalem
Israel
- Youth and education
Mission: to educate and empower tomorrow’s most promising Palestinian and Israeli leaders to take action towards creating positive economic, political, and social impact in the Middle East.
Objectives:
I. Provide MEET participants with high-value technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills.
II. Offer Palestinian and Israeli youth the opportunity to learn and work together on common goals, engage in open and meaningful dialogue, and build long‐lasting personal and professional relationships.
III. Create an active network of future Palestinian and Israeli leaders with a common professional language, respect for one another, and hands-on experience for cooperation.
IV. Empower MEET’s students to become leaders in their communities and undertake initiatives for positive social, political, and economic change.
Working in partnership with MIT since 2004, MEET's goal is to educate and empower the next generation of Israeli and Palestinian young leaders to take action towards creating positive economic, social and political change in the Middle East.
To achieve this goal, MEET has developed a groundbreaking three-year educational excellence program within a globally connected professional network, which provides MEET's high-school students with:
(a) A professional skill-set and network access to be successful and reach positions of impact;
(b) The value base and transforming experience of working together in bi-national teams on pragmatic technology and business projects, while developing mutual trust, a common language and a deeper understanding of the region's challenges.
Graduates of the program stay connected through our active alumni network and are developing entrepreneurial projects incubated at the MEET Venture Lab in Jerusalem, in partnership with Google's Launchpad.
MEET is unique in bringing together Israelis and Palestinians through the common languages of technology and entrepreneurship. With 10 years of experience we have learned many lessons and overcome numerous tense political challenges, lessons that we would be honored to share with the ALF network. We have grown an extensive international network both within the Middle East region and abroad, which can be of great benefit to the ALF network. Our technology and entrepreneurship curriculum is based on experts from MIT, as well as international experts in the field, which can further benefit the ALF network.
To summarize, MEET would love to share our experience, network, and curriculum with others, and build innovative collaborative projects to benefit the region as a whole.
To increase our international network; to inform people, organizations and institutions of the important work MEET is doing in the Middle East; and to partner with other organizations who are interested in helping educate youth on becoming future change makers.