EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2022 marked five years since we first implemented our strategy, which includes a fixed annual budget from Bar-Ilan University, increasing revenues from our facilities and expanding our submissions for—and winnings of—research and educational program grants. Summing up these fruitful years, our strategy proved successful: We expanded our exposure to the local industry, multiplied our continuous connectivity with international consortia and increased grant submission rates. To date, this strategy and its fruits function as BINA’s sustainable foundation that facilitates our long-term growth resources. Although it was a challenging year in which we continued to experience the consequences of the pandemic in the form of spare parts shortages and long delivery times, it seems that we were able to shake off global uncertainty and stagnation and return to the pre-COVID-19 work environment in terms of our growth in staff recruitment, instrumentation accession, activity and collaborations. Human Resources Growing resources is fundamental to our ability to empower BINA’s professional staff. Our employees are professional researchers; they carry out research, participate in the research of others, possess in-depth knowledge of the technical and theoretical aspects of the equipment they work with, and have the knowhow to handle devices, chips and biological samples. Not many people hold this capacity, and not many teams can work together as ours can. Despite the challenge to locate and recruit such excellent people year after year, we still successfully increased the number of our team members to 32. Being the driving force of the Institute, investing in their cultivation and preservation is both necessary and a top priority. In the field of development, we have opened, in collaboration with BIU’s chemistry department, a new unit for smart materials synthesis, in line with the current industry developments and scale-up in nanomaterials syntheses. This unit’s team is headed by Dr. Ilana Perelshtein, who also heads the ChargedParticle Microscopy Unit, and Dr. Natalia Dudchenko, a Madan Ole from Ukraine. We are also happy to welcome BINA’S new Projects Manager, Dr. Eti Teblum. Thanks to the staff’s professionalism, initiative and creativity, BINA continues to receive funding through prestigious grants for its involvement in research programs such as Eurostars, MAGNET and Erasmus+. Taking part in these programs also expands the scope of our collaborations with industrial companies and increases revenues from services we provide them for research purposes. BINA’s continuous involvement in such programs allows us to hire more experts in various fields, which generates additional opportunities for participation in new initiatives, thereby ensuring a perpetual flow of income. Facilities and Instrumentation Over these past five years, we have won 100% of our equipment grant submissions. We are happy to announce that we received a grant for the purchase of an extremely advanced HR-TEM and hope to issue the order by the end of this year. Currently on its way 7
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