Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development,
initiator of the first ever World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE
dedicated to monitoring the specific impact of 21st century
challenges on education, announces today the launch of one of the key
highlights of the WISE summit to be held next November in Doha Qatar with the inaugural
WISE Awards 2009 - Innovative Education Practice Awards.
Highlighting the importance of the Awards
initiative of the WISE summit, Dr. Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, Chairman of
WISE and Vice President of Education, Qatar Foundation,
explained: “For the first edition, the WISE Awards 2009 will honour
innovative, education-related projects and initiatives - tools, practices or
processes - that have fostered distinctive cross-educational collaboration.”
The WISE Awards are focussed on rewarding a total of six concrete achievements from around the world across three
categories aligned with the Forum’s main themes of Pluralism, Sustainability
and Innovation.”
§ Pluralism:
“Educational activities that explicitly generate greater respect and
understanding between communities, enhance diversity, or increase access and
equality to education.”
§ Sustainability:
“Initiatives that offer new approaches to educational sustainability (through
appropriate funding mechanisms, good governance, suitable accreditation and
quality control structure) thereby contributing to the creation of sustainable
global societies.”
§ Innovation:
“Educational activities that use information and communication technologies and
other innovative means to generate new and exciting opportunities for access
and delivery of learning content that better enabled people to face the
diversity of today’s challenges.”
From May 1st to July 15th,
2009, online submissions from both individuals and teams are invited, and must
be endorsed by a senior officer of a relevant organisation. All applications -
to be submitted in English - are welcome from all sectors of education and all
types of organisations located anywhere in the world. WISE Awards submissions
are now open online at www.wise-qatar.org/en/awards.
45 short-listed applications (15 in each category) will be reviewed by
an International Jury, consisting of 10 of the world’s leading experts in
pluralism, sustainability and innovation in education, drawn from public
institutions, civil society, the private sector, international organisations,
universities and social entrepreneurs.
An official awards ceremony to be held on November 17 during the WISE
Summit will officially announce the six WISE Awards. Each recipient will
receive a grant of $20,000 and the WISE Award winning projects will be
showcased during the World Innovation Summit for Education organized by Qatar
Foundation to be held in Doha, Qatar from November 16th to 18th
2009.
Application forms and further details on
the Innovative Education Practice Awards are now available from http://www.wise-qatar.org/en/awards.
Deadline for applications is July 15th 2009.
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