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Education |
About WISE
Qatar Foundation has
spearheaded Qatar’s drive to
make itself a world leader in
education and is now spreading
that focus beyond the country’s
borders through its Educate
A Child initiative.
| Her Highness Sheikha Moza & First Lady Michelle Obama
presenting the 2015 WISE Prize for Education to Dr. Sakena Yacoobi,
Founder and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning
In 2009 Qatar Foundation established
the World Innovation Summit for
Education (WISE), an international
initiative that promotes new approaches
to learning in the 21st Century. WISE
holds an annual summit in Doha
attended by about 1,500 researchers,
innovators and other experts.
Its many other activities include the
WISE Prize for Education, a $500,000
award presented every year at the
summit to a person or team who
has made an outstanding contribution
to education. It’s often referred to as
the Nobel Prize for education.
The theme of the 2015 summit
was “Investing for Impact: Quality
Education for Sustainable and
Inclusive Growth”.
| First Lady Michelle Obama talks with students during a tour of the WISE
Summit Learning Labs during the 2015 WISE at the Qatar National
Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 4, 2015
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