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Al Nayzak

Al Nayzak

"SKY IS THE LIMIT"

AlNayzak Organization for Supportive Education and Scientific Innovation

AlNayzak is an independent educational and scientific organization founded in Jerusalem in 2003. It is a non-profit, non-partisan organization specializing in education, mentoring and research in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and other educational and applied sciences and Vocational and Technical Training (TVET). Through its work, AlNayzak empowers innovation and entrepreneurship. ”.


AlNayzak serves all sectors within the local society. In its programs, AlNayzak employs unique and innovative approaches that help stimulate learning and build competencies towards a participatory and hands-on educational journey. These approaches encourage active learning, and reflective practice in the production of knowledge. AlNayzak promotes and integrates innovation and creativity as authentic societal values..


AlNayzak approaches academic and vocational learning through building modern scientific, intellectual, and technological skills. Its goal is to turn critical and design thinking as well as scientific methodologies into built in habits that are practiced daily by individuals, and thus contributing to the building of a productive, leading and inclusive social network..


AlNayzak adopts an inclusive and balanced education accessible to all types of learners and meets their individual need as a key factor in building innovative approaches within the local context. Its activities are built on three major pillars: Science and Society, Innovation in Education and Innovative Economy. These programs are offered through its extensive network of centers and partners across the Palestinian territory to more than 32 thousand beneficiaries annually.


AlNayzak creates space for innovation through its branches in six Palestinian cities along with tens of innovation laboratories installed in community-based organizations CBO’s, civil society institutions and partner schools. In addition to its science museum "Sa’adeh Science and Technology House” independently inaugurated in 2013 in the old city of Birzeit. The Organization has received numerous local and international awards. These awards include “Takreem” Award in 2017, received in Cairo from the Secretary-General of the Arab League, the “Arab Thought” Award- Dubai in the year 2013. AlNayzak also won the Palestine International Award for Excellence and Creativity and the Welfare Association’s “Abdul Aziz Al Shakhsheer Award for Achievement”. AlNayzak is an active member of global networks specializing in science and technology, including ECSITE- the European Network of Science Centers and Museums, ASTC- The American Association of Science and Technology Centers and NAMES- the North Africa and Middle East Science Centers Network..

Vision

An Innovative Palestinian society, capable of producing original scientific knowledge, integrated with sustainable development.

Mission

“To develop scientific, entrepreneurship, engineering and technological (STEEM) competencies of Palestinian youth and to provide promising socio-economic opportunities, through initiating, design and implementation of specialized programs that create inspiring and motivating environments for incubation and excellence.




SKY IS THE LIMIT