In 2020 the IRE has established a collaboration with the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in Rehovot, Israel. These two institutes have called an internal research grant for collaborative research between an IRE PI and a WIS PI. This grant will support the research for two years with €25.000,00 per year. This first edition was won by the team Yarden – Bagnato and Krizhanovsky – Bossi.