Regional Collaboration with Jordan
The Dead Sea-Arava Science Center is a partner in various trans-border projects:
- Renewable energy – improving solar energy technology and cooperative research of bio-energy.
- Ecology and biology – researching the topics of local hyper-arid desert and utilization of unique local flora.
- Geology, water and climate change – geology and earthquakes in the Arava, the reciprocal relation between climatic fluctuations in the past and present, floods and groundwater, political management of the Dead Sea Basin as a common resource.
- Health and environment – unique local flora, the therapeutic benefits of the Dead Sea.
- Education – cooperative trans-border programs for the study of science and environment.
Joint Tourism Project – Wadi Arava cross-border desert – community tourism network
In the past four years, the Hevel Eilot regional council, the Economic Corporation, the Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, and the Jordanian i.greens organization,
Cross-border youth
While the adults are busy, a group of youth, including Israeli youth from the Arava, Jordanian youth from Aqaba and the surrounding area, and Palestinian
Water Matters – USAid
The Water Matters Cross-Border Environmental Cooperation project, led by the Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, has been operating in our area since 2016. Women,