Nominations open for 2023 Yidan Prize:

Nominations open for 2023 Yidan Prize:

Nominations open for 2023 Yidan Prize: The world’s highest education accolade

DATE, Hong Kong SAR – The Yidan Prize Foundation is looking for innovators who are making a significant impact in education. As the world’s highest education accolade, the Yidan Prize recognizes and supports changemakers in education research and development.

Nominations are now open for the 2023 Yidan Prize

With a mission to create a better world through education, the Yidan Prize Foundation awards two prizes annua lly to individuals and teams of up to three in two key areas: education research and education development.

Laureates will receive a gold medal and a total sum of HK$30 million, shared equally for teams. Half of this is a ca sh prize in recognition of their contribution to education. The other half is a project fund to help them scale and grow their work, whether it be to expand their reach, launch a new project or enhance the delivery of existing programs.

As well as joining the Yidan Prize Foundation’s global education community, the 2023 Yidan Prize laureates will become part of the Yidan Council of Luminaries—a gathering of the brightest minds in education who come toge ther to exchange ideas, build bridges between research and practice, and act as a collective voice to address so me of the biggest challenges facing education today.

“The Yidan Prize champions changemakers committed to creating a better world through education and suppor ts them with resources to scale and grow their work,” said Ms Mabel Woo, Deputy Secretary-General, the Yidan Prize Foundation. “We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2023 Yidan Prize. We loo k forward to learning about education research and initiatives that are making a difference for young people acr oss the world.”  

Nominations for the 2023 Yidan Prize are now open and will close on 31 Mar ch 2023. To learn more about mak ing a Yidan Prize nomination, visit the Yid an Prize Foundation website: https://yidanprize.org/the-prize/nominations  

NOTES TO EDITORS

About The Yidan Prize F oundation

The Yidan Prize Foundation is a global philanthropic foundation, with a mission of creating a better world thro ugh education. Through its prize and network of innovators, the Yidan Prize Foundation supports ideas and pra ctices in education—specifically, ones with the power to positively change lives and society.

The Yidan Prize is an inclusive education accolade that recognizes individuals or teams who have contributed sig nificantly to the theory and practice of education. It consists of two prizes, working in harmony: the Yidan Prize for Education Research and the Yidan Prize for Education Development. They’re designed for impact: laureates receive a project fund of HK$15 million over three years, helping them scale up their work, as well as a gold med al and a cash prize of HK$15 million (shared equally for teams).

For more information visit yidanprize.org or contact media@yidanprize.org.

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