UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize
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UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize.
UNESCO is launching the call for nominations for the 2018 edition of
the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education. Funded by
the Kingdom of Bahrain and established in 2005, the Prize rewards
individuals and organizations that are carrying out outstanding projects
to improve teaching and learning in the digital age. It calls attention
to excellent models, best practices and creative uses of ICTs to
enhance overall education performance.
This year’s Prize will recognize projects and programmes that leverage innovative technologies to ensure education for excluded vulnerable groups.
The
UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa ICT in Education Prize recognizes
innovative approaches in leveraging new technologies to expand
educational opportunities by enabling access to quality education and
lifelong learning opportunities for all, in line with the Education 2030
agenda and Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Entries are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa ICT in Education Prize. The deadline for submission of entries is October 31st, 2018.
For the past years,
the Prize has been promoting the use of new technologies to expand
educational opportunities and increase access to quality education for
vulnerable groups impeded by cultural and economic barriers, personal
disabilities, gender inequalities, and/or crisis-affected situations.
Indeed, ICT have a great potential to enable cost-efficient solutions to
address these barriers, so that everyone can fully enjoy their right to
education.
Prize:
This year the Prize will
highlight projects that use integrated solutions that blend commonly
used technology with frontier ICT applications, such as breakthrough
technology to overcome infrastructure barriers; solutions to reduce the
cost of access; online learning innovations; intelligent learning
management systems; machine translation; big data; and imagery
technology
An international Jury selects two best projects
annually. Each prizewinner receives a diploma, USD 25,000 and
acknowledgement during a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
National
Commissions of the Member States of UNESCO and international
non-governmental organizations maintaining official relations with
UNESCO are kindly invited to elicit, nominate and submit candidates for
the Prize, thus contributing to a greater diversity of the projects.
2018 Calendar:
- June 2018: Launch of call for nominations
- October 2018: Deadline for submission
- December 2018: International jury meeting
- March 2019: Award ceremony in Paris, France
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