Deadline: 31-Mar-22
Nominations are now open for the Yidan Prize 2022 to create a better world through education.
Focus Areas
Each year, they award the Yidan Prize to individuals and teams in two areas:
- Education Research: The theories of learning—science, psychology, statistics—that can help educators understand different approaches with a methodical lens.
- Education Development Policy and practice in learning: new methods and ways to make education more widespread—so they can champion techniques that work.
Prize Details
They award their laureates a certificate, gold medal, cash prize of HK$15 million (shared equally for teams), and a project funding of HK$15 million to help them scale up their work over three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome all nominations; their process is open to everyone. You don’t need to be invited to nominate a team or individual for either the Education Research or Education Development prize.
- Nominators can be members of government bodies, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, and thought leaders in education and learning. The nominator should be a credible witness to the impact of the nominee(s)
- Nominees can be either an individual or a working team of up to three people. They can be teachers, researchers, academics, policy makers, or advocates, among others. A nomination must be accompanied by at least two recommendation letters from supporters
- Self-nomination is accepted from candidates who obtain recommendation letters from at least three supporters
- Posthumous nominations are not accepted
- Nominees not awarded with the Yidan Prize may be nominated again in the future
- Yidan Prize Directors, Judging Committee members and Advisory Committee members are not eligible to make nominations or be nominated
- Nominators and supporters should not be nominee family members
For more information, visit https://yidanprize.org/the-prize/nominations/