Deadline: |
February 26, 2019
Location: |
Online.
(Award)
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2019 WISE Prize for Education :
The WISE Prize for Education recognizes an individual or a team for their outstanding contribution to education, and for their resolve to develop an idea or grow their initiative further. The WISE Prize for Education celebrates and shares the laureate’s vision in building the future of education by providing the Laureate(s) tailored support over two years to scale their impact.
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The WISE Prize is not a grant scheme aimed at supporting new projects or organization.The prize is aimed at recognizing the accomplishment of an individual or team in education and their potential in shaping the future of education.
Opportunity Focus Areas:
- Education.
- Leadership.
- Community Development.
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English.
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ALL WORLD COUNTRIES.
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- Call for nominations: December 3 – February 26. 13:00 GMT
- WISE Due Diligence: March 13 – March 28
- Committee Evaluation: April 4 –April 28
- Call for Proposals: May 13 – June 13
- Jury Evaluation: July 1 – August 23
- Announcement of the 2019 Laureate: WISE Summit 2019, October 28-30, 2019
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- The nominator must be an individual and not an organization, the nominator could be working with the nominee, part of their community, one of the nominee’s end beneficiaries or have no relationship with the nominee.
- The nominator will fill out the nomination form and should know the nominee’s work very well.
- The nominator can fill out the nomination form without informing or asking for information from the nominee. The nominator can also request information from the nominee to fill the form.
- The nominator should provide the needed contact information, in case the WISE team would like to contact the nominator for further details.
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The WISE Prize for Education recognizes an individual or a team for an outstanding contribution to education. The achievements of the nominated individual or team should have had a significant and lasting impact upon education at any level, and should demonstrate an inspiring and visionary approach. The nominee(s) should meet the following criteria:
- Commitment to Education: The nominee(s) has proven a continuous commitment to addressing education challenge(s) locally or internationally
- Positive Systemic Innovation: the nominee(s) is a catalyst for systemic change by creating innovative solutions to local or international education challenge(s).
- Leadership: the vision of the nominee(s) is not only innovative but contextually challenges the status quo. The nominee(s) is the driving force behind the project/organization not simply the director. The nominee has the energy and aspiration to continue growing the impact of his or her work.
- Sustainable Impact: the contribution of the nominee(s) generates positive and sustainable impact in the lives of the targeted beneficiaries. Shortlisted nominee(s) must clearly outline how the WISE Prize for Education will optimize, grow and scale their impact.
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(Award)
- The Laureate(s) will receive US $ 500,000 cash prize dedicated to continuing their work in education.
- a gold medal.
- The Laureate will gain global visibility and opportunities to collaborate through various platforms, including the global Summit and WISE events across the world, WISE communications and publications.
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First Step: The nominator should create an account and complete the l nomination form available on the WISE online application system https://programs.wise.org.qa.
Notes:
- The nomination form should be completed in English. Any other language will not be considered.
- The nomination form should be submitted before the deadline as the system automatically closes by the timeline, and WISE does not accept nominations after the deadline, February 26, 2019.
- To prevent any accidental loss of information while completing the form, we encourage nominators to save at every step.
- The nominator should fill out all the required questions, The nomination cannot be submitted until all the required questions are completed.
- Each nomination requires two supporters; the two references should be individuals who have worked closely with the nominee from collaborating organizations, previous colleagues, etc. The WISE team will contact the supporters, the supporters SHOULD NOT send letters of the recommendation to WISE unless they are requested.
- WISE will contact the two supporters, kindly make sure that their details are up to date and correct.
Second Step: A confirmation email along with a PDF version of the nomination form will be sent to the nominator once the system has received the nomination.
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This Scholarship Published by:
” Karim Abdelrazek / Egypt “Reviewed by” Emam Mahmoud / Egypt ”
MARJ3 Intern
MARJ3 Scholarships team
