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Israeli-Dutch Innovation Center

IDIC empowered by the Netherlands Innovation Network

NOTICE
At the moment, this website is inactive.
Innovation requests should be sent to the Innovatie Attaché Netwerk: ianetwerk@rvo.nl.
Requests for the Dutch Embassy in Israel Economic Department should be sent to:
tel-ea@minbuza.nl.

Israeli-Dutch Innovation Center

Our Methodology

The Israeli Dutch Innovation Center (IDIC) was established in December 2016 by the Netherlands Embassy in Israel. IDIC is managed by Dr. Racheli Kreisberg, the Innovation Attache of the Netherlands Ministry of Economy and Climate Policy. IDIC has an advisory board that meets once a year to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the Netherlands-Israeli cooperation.

In order to facilitate the bilateral cooperation, the IDIC website provides the following information and tools to our users:

Dutch innovation policy

A detailed description of the Dutch Innovation Policy, in the form of the Dutch Top Sectors, the Dutch Societal Challenges, the Dutch Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Onboarding opportunity for NL and IL organizations

We invite Dutch and Israeli public and private organizations to share with us their interest in developing R&D cooperation with the Netherlands and Israel, respectively. Our onboarding form conforms to GDPR regulations in terms of privacy.

Onboarding
NL-IL bilateral innovation opportunities

We identify innovation opportunities for bilateral cooperation and show the link to the Dutch innovation policy. Examples of innovation opportunities are:

  • VIP visits: includes visits from NL (government) officials and others
  • Conferences: delegations and speaking engagements
  • Delegations: fact finding missions, R&D mission, NL startup mission to IL, IL scaleup mission to NL, knowledge transfer delegations
  • Funding opportunities: Eurostars, ECSEL-JU, Horizon Europe, IMI, Israel Innovation Authority, VC search for startups
  • Establishment of innovation hub: partnering opportunities
  • Innovation Days: Organised events based on bilateral NL-IL agreements, such as the Brabant Innovation Days
  • Knowledge transfer: workshop/seminar/training
  • MNEs: pilot with startup, scouting for technology
  • R&D cooperation: bilateral/tri- or multi-lateral, clinical trials
  • SMEs: B2B meeting
  • Startup: pilot at MNEs, search for VC
Opportunities
NL-IL innovation success stories

News items and stories of successful NL-IL innovation cooperation are shown.

Success Stories

Get in touch

  • Embassy of the Netherlands in Israel, Economic Department

  • 14 Abba Hillel Street, Ramat Gan 5250607

  • tel-ea@minbuza.nl