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- The Aviram Program is designed to empower emerging thought-leaders, decision-makers, and aspiring entrepreneurs with the academic depth and practical expertise needed to drive the transition toward a sustainable and ecologically resilient future.
- In the first semester, students explore critical global challenges such as climate change, extreme weather events, plastic and chemical pollution, material waste, water scarcity, food insecurity, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and the circular economy.
- As part of the curriculum, students participate in a study tour to Asia or Europe, meeting with leading scholars, scientists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders at the forefront of sustainability innovation. Previous classes have visited Northern Italy, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
- In the second semester, students participate in the Program's Sustainability Workshop – a term-long capstone course in which interdisciplinary teams tackle real-world sustainability challenges and develop tangible, double-bottom line, actionable solutions, technological or otherwise.
- Student teams are guided by industry experts and academic mentors.
- Graduates of the Aviram Program join a network of alumni and associates working across all sustainability disciplines and domains, business and technology.
- The Aviram Program is a bilingual program, proficiency in Hebrew and English is expected.
Program Schedule
- April–June
Admissions – Applications, interviews, case studies, and simulations. - June
Acceptance – Final admissions decisions. - July
Onboarding – Orientation into the program, code of conduct. - July-September
Leadership Enrichment – Personal and professional strengths. - October
Study Tour (Israel) – Field exploration of key sustainability challenges and 'problem environments'.
- November–February
First Semester – Core academic courses:
▪ Planetary Boundaries
▪ Environmental Change and Human Behavior
▪ Environmental Change and Emerging Technologies
▪ Venture ideation and development - February–March
Study Tour (Asia or Europe) – Site visits with leading enterprises, entrepreneurs, and sustainability thought leaders. - March–June
Second Semester – Sustainability Workshop:
▪ Team-based challenge-solving
▪ Skills sessions and master classes
▪ Training in effective communication - Year-Round
Complementary Content – Mentorship meetings, career guidance, industry talks and visits, and guest experts.
Core courses and workshops
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This course provides participants with a comprehensive overview of the nine Planetary Boundaries identified by scientists as critical to maintaining a habitable planet: climate change, biodiversity loss, land use change, freshwater use, ocean acidification, stratospheric ozone depletion, atmospheric aerosol loading, chemical pollution, and nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. We will explore the science behind each boundary, the interdependences between boundaries, and the human activities and systems that are driving their transgression. As part of the course, participants will work in self-selected teams, choose a boundary, and a system driving its breach – for which they will explore, analyze and develop innovative interventions in the following core courses and the Sustainability Workshop.
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The objective of this course is to develop a critical understanding of the drivers of environmental breakdown across natural system from the technological perspective, considering past, present and prospective technologies as both sources of- and solutions to- sustainability challenges. Additionally, the course provides participants with a comprehensive overview of emerging environmental technologies, including clean-tech, climate-tech, energy-tech. water-tech, agri-tech and food-tech. Participants will acquire knowledge and skills to perform multi-disciplinary due diligence and feasibility assessment of emerging technologies.
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The objective of this course is to develop a critical understanding of the drivers of environmental degradation, resource overexploitation, and climate change from the behavioral perspective, considering human behaviors and habits, choices, and decisions as both sources of- and solutions to- environmental predicaments. The course provides students with analytical frameworks, tools and techniques from across the behavioral sciences, behavioral economics, and marketing, and provides participants with the opportunity to apply them in case studies and real-life settings.
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Double-bottom-line venture development
Financial aspects of venture development
Marketing aspects of venture development
Legal aspects of venture development
Effective communication and storytelling
Generative AI and sustainability
Venture capital and sustainability
Business problem solving and strategy
China, supply chains, and critical minerals
China, energy transitions, and policy
The Circular Economy and alternative business models
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In Asia or Europe [1 credit]
The study tour offers participants direct exposure to cutting-edge enterprises, pioneering entrepreneurs, and thought leaders driving sustainability and climate innovation across Asia or Europe. It provides a unique opportunity to explore complex, real-world challenges ("wicked problems") and the emerging solutions addressing them.
Students will gain insights into how sustainability principles and the circular economy are implemented across diverse sectors, industries, and institutions. The tour is designed as an immersive and highly interactive experience, featuring workshops, site visits, seminars, and in-depth discussions with leading experts and peers.
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