Projects
Below are some of our impact focused education projects
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Making a Difference - Online Course
A leading online course on driving global impact
Making a Difference is a two-part online course designed to empower individuals to drive meaningful global change. It teaches analytical tools and frameworks to evaluate and prioritize impactful opportunities, emphasizing evidence-based approaches to address pressing global challenges. Learners are introduced to promising cause areas – such as Global Health & Development, Animal Welfare, Climate Change, Biological Risks, and Artificial Intelligence Risks – where they can make a real difference. The course concludes with a bonus lesson on how one can harness their career to enact meaningful, high-impact positive change.
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Applied Ethics - Academic Course
An academic course at Tel Aviv University
The course presents practical tools for examining ethical issues in everyday decision-making, drawing on insights from ethics, economics, behavioural science, exact sciences and more. It explores questions such as: to what extent should global catastrophes worry us, and what can and should be done about them? Should empirical evidence influence our ethical decisions, and how? What could be done about global poverty and health? Do we have a moral obligation towards others, and if so, to whom, and does it include animals? How can moral commitment be incorporated into career decisions? And more.
Distinguished Lecture Series
Lectures on impact oriented issues
A series of lectures on altruism, philanthropy, global poverty & healthcare, animal welfare, existential risks to humanity, and the GiveWell & Chairty Entrepreneurship organizations.
The series was produced in tandem with the 2021 World Universities Debating Championship, and it included distinguished speakers such as William MacAskill. You can download the posters for the full list of topics and speakers here.
Cumulatively the lectures were watched over 10,000 times. Beyond the expert content, each major theme also featured exercises by world-renowned speakers.
Academic Debate Championship
An academic competition on impact oriented ideas
The inaugural impact oriented debate championship - a three-day debate championship with impact-themed topics. The championship had 150+ participants, from roughly 25 countries, that span 6 continents (including participants from top universities such as Oxford and Cambridge). Over 500 speeches were delivered in the framework of the competition.
The participants of the tournament have made donations to distinguished charities (with most of the funds going to the Against Malaria Foundation). The funds were doubled via donation matching.
In the framework of the championship a research was conducted to examine if debating changes the stance of debaters towards certain values. Organizing the event was an effort of a great many. We name them and thank them in the link below. ​