World Innovation Summit for Education

World Innovation Summit for Education
Formation 2009
Type Non-profit organization
Headquarters Doha, Qatar
Region served
 Worldwide
Website www.wise-qatar.org

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is an international initiative aimed at transforming education through innovation. WISE was established by Qatar Foundation in 2009 under the patronage of its chairperson, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser.[1] With an annual Summit held in Doha, and a range of year-round initiatives, WISE's mission revolves around promoting new approaches to education and investigating ways to manage education challenges.[2]

The Annual Summit

Panel participants in the 2012 WISE Summit.

The 3-day WISE Summit is held annually in Doha, Qatar.[3] It unites over 1,500 experts, researchers, and innovators from multiple sectors worldwide to foster new collaborations and develop solutions with the goal of inspiring creative changes in education. The summit is currently organized by Stavros Yiannouka and his team. Each summit has a distinct theme.[4] The first summit was held in 2009 under the theme "Global Education: Working Together for Sustainable Achievements".[5]

The WISE Prize for Education

The WISE Prize for Education is an international Nobel prize that rewards an individual or a team for contributions to education which have been adjudged to be outstanding. The inaugural edition was launched in 2011 with a monetary award of $500,000.[6]

Selection criteria for the prize stipulates that the laureate’s work should have had a significant and lasting impact at any level of education. The laureate is selected by an international jury of education stakeholders and announced at the annual Summit.[7]

The first WISE Prize was awarded to Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairman of BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee).[8] The second prize, in 2012, went to Madhav Chavan, co-founder and CEO of India-based NGO Pratham.[6] The third WISE Prize laureate, announced at the 2013 Summit, was Vicky Colbert, founder and director of Fundacion Escuela Nueva in Colombia.[6] Ann Cotton, an advocate of girls' education, was awarded the 2014 prize.[9]

Other activities

The WISE Awards

Each year the WISE Awards recognize and promotes six projects that address global educational challenges. A pre-jury composed of education experts assesses submissions and selects a shortlist of fifteen finalists. Following this, a jury chooses the six award winning projects.[10] Winners receive a cash prize of $20,000. The first WISE Awards were handed out in 2009.[11]

WISE Books

WISE Books are aimed at supporting innovative thinking in education. As of October 2014, WISE has published three books addressing educational topics. WISE Book authors and photographers travel to several countries in an attempt to identify the challenges and illustrate the impact of initiatives and practices that are making tangible differences. The third book to be released by WISE, Learning (Re)Imagined - How the connected society is transforming learning focuses on the link between technology and education.[12]

WISE Learners' Voice

Learners' voice, inaugurated in 2010, is a program that aims to reshape students' perception of education. Each year, a selected group of young people, aged 18–25, participate at the annual summit by engaging in debates and making presentations. Workshop sessions are also held throughout the year.[13] In late 2013, 36 new learners joined the existing network of 78 learners from previous years.[14]

WISE Accelerator

The accelerator is a support and advisory program with the aim of developing early-stage projects in education. The program, founded in 2014, seeks to assist projects that have a high potential for scalability and a positive impact on the field of education.[1]

Learning World

Launched in September 2010, Learning World is a weekly TV magazine program on education developed in partnership with Euronews.[15] It broadcasts 16 times per week to several countries in 13 languages.[16]

WISE Haiti Task Force

The WISE Haiti Task Force was created in 2010 in partnership with Haiti-based FOKAL (Foundation for Knowledge and Liberty), an organization led by former Haitian Prime Minister, Michèle D. Pierre-Louis. The aim of this collaboration is to rebuild the Haitian education system following the earthquake of January 2010, by supporting successful education projects and fostering their development, replication and scaling up.[17]

Partners

The WISE initiative has cooperation agreements with the following institutions in major education issues: Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the Institute of International Education (IIE), the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), RAND Corporation, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).[18]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Rahim Kanani (5 July 2014). "WISE: The Global Platform For Innovators In Education". Forbes. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "About WISE". WISE Qatar. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "The WISE Summit". WISE Qatar. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "(As it happened) Imagine, Create, Learn: reinventing education at WISE summit 2014". Euronews. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "The 2009 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) convened November 16-18, in Doha, Qatar under the theme "Global Education: Working Together for Sustainable Achievements"". WISE Qatar. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 Sean Coughlan (29 October 2013). "Colombia school project founder wins global prize". BBC. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "The WISE Prize for Education". WISE Qatar. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "WISE prize for education goes to Bangladeshi Sir Fazle Hasan Abed". UNICEF. 16 November 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Sean Coughlan (4 November 2014). "UK girls' education campaigner wins global prize". BBC. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Al-Bairaq is among six WISE Awards winners". Gulf Times. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "IIE Partners with Qatar Foundation on World Innovation Summit on Education 2013". Institute of International Education. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "WISE releases third book on education". The Peninsula. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  13. ↑ Francesca Green (16 March 2015). "WISE Learners’ Voice Program for Educational Innovators". Lancaster University. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Qatar Foundation's WISE Learners' Voice: Call for Nomination". Institute of International Education. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "The WISE initiative – Building the future of education" (Press release). albawaba.com. 26 September 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  16. ↑ "Learning World". WISE Qatar. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  17. ↑ "Sélection de dix projets éducatifs en Haïti par WISE-Haïti" (in French). Le Nouvelliste. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "The 5th Annual WISE Program for Education Leadership" (Press release). iie.org. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

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