Based on new trends in the field and innovative teaching, Bar-Ilan's multidisciplinary school for Sustainability and the Environment began operating this year. The research centre for energy and sustainability, which brings together 55 research groups from various academic disciplines, also operates alongside the school.

The school offers students who wish to specialize in environmental issues a wide variety of study programs in all fields of knowledge - from social sciences to law, chemistry, life sciences, and medicine.

Bar-Ilan University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have won a call published by the Israeli Ministry of Energy to establish a national research institute in the field of energy storage. The aim of the institute is to encourage Israel's energy sector to take a leap forward in response to the national strategic changes, with an eye toward global applications, as well as to train cadres of future experts in the field and facilitate the transfer of innovative technologies from the academic environment to industry.

Scholars from around the world gathered at Bar-Ilan University for a three-day international conference devoted to investigating and furthering the intellectual legacy of the late international religious leader, philosopher, award-winning author, and respected moral voice, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.