WISE Awards 2020 Qatar, the WISE Awards recognizes and promotes six successful innovative projects every year that are addressing global educational challenges. Since 2009, WISE has received more than 3,000 applications from over 150 countries. Today, overall, 60 projects have been awarded, from a wide variety of sectors and locations for their innovation, positive contribution and ability to adapt and scale-up.

These projects represent a growing resource of expertise and sound educational practice. Every year WISE is building a community of educational innovators that offers a fertile environment for groundbreaking collaborations. Today the WISE Awards network comprises pioneering projects that are bringing positive change to societies and communities.

Award Amount

Each WISE Awards winning project will receive US$ 20,000 and also will be benefited from increased public interest through media exposure and other channels.

Eligibilities

Projects from any part of the world can apply for the WISE Aw. Ongoing/existing education projects run by any type of organization such as colleges, universities, academic networks, schools consortia, civil society and community organizations, governments, international agencies and private-sector companies working in the field of education are eligible to apply or nominate.

Similarly, projects from any education sector such as pre-primary, primary, secondary, tertiary, vocational training, higher education, special needs education, education for people with disabilities, informal learning, and distance-based, non-formal and lifelong learning can also apply.

Submission guidelines

• Be entered into the official form on the online system (curriculum vitae or other forms of documents will not be valid).
• Be complete and accurate. Similarly, the project must be in English.
• In the case of an application, the form must include the contact details of two supporters (e.g.
  former donors, local governments, other NGOs, etc.)
• Furthermore, candidates must submit a project in this portal.

Timeline

• The deadline for submission of applications is January 20, 2020, at 13.00 GMT.
• The Pre-Jury will review all eligible applications. Following, the names of the Finalists will be out in May 2020.
• An Innovation Assessment will be organized, as described below.
• The Jury will review the finalists based on the submitted forms and the evaluations conducted
  onsite.
• Announcement of the six winners mid-October 2020. Furthermore, the six winners will be visited on-site by the WISE film team starting in October 2020

Visit this link to go to the official website.