WISE and Education: a vision and an ambition towards global achievements.
Sustaining diversified and innovative educational models in a sustainable world: enforcing the right of all to quality Education.
Pluralism in Education: finding the paths leading to diversified and inclusive societies.
New practices, new models, new tech: will multistakeholders initiatives set the pace of Education reform?
The success story of the 1st WISE Awards: from their birth and until the selection of the 6 winners
Working together for sustainable achievements
Working toghether to identify strategic priorities
The Gala dinner celebrating the 6 outstanding projects.
3 day summit concludes with a final session defining 10 educational priorities for WISE
Rector, Cotonou University, Benin
President and Ceo, Institute of International Education (USA)
Executive Director, International Fellowships Programme of the Ford Foundation
Professor of Education, Newcastle University, UK
Former Prime Minister of France
University of Mauritius, Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies
Vice-Rector - Partnerships, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (Montreal)
CEO, Heppell.net
Executive Director, Curriki
Shafallah Centre for Children with Special Needs, Qatar
Director, Institute for Learning and Motivation, South Africa
CEO, New Media Consortium
Co-founder, Twitter
Senior Director, Head of the Global Education Initiative, WEF
The Open University, UK
President and CEO, Sesame Workshop (USA)
(CASE) Hong Kong University
Directors, Sarang School, Kerala
Director, The Palestinian Happy Child Center
Head of Education, Save The Children Fund
Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, United Nations
Chief Technology Officer, Stanford University School of Education
CEO, Richard Rose Federation
Director, Muthabara
Vice President, The Citizens Foundation, Karachi
Artistic Director, Ecoles Des Sables, Senegal
Vice-President, National Programs and Program Director, Urban Education, Carnegie Corporation
Project Lead Education in Conflict Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
United Negro College Fund USA
Head of the UN from 1997 to 2006. Received the Nobel Price for Peace-Jointly with the UN in 2001.
Assistant Director-General Education. Has a broad knowledge of education in developing countries.
Chairman and CEO of GE, one of the largest companies which also developed educational initiatives.
Futurelab develops innovative practices supporting new approaches to learning for the 21th century.
C.Hughes also created My.BarrackObama.com which revolutionized the web as a political tool.
Undertook major changes in the English education system. Since 2008, runs his own foundation.
A.Wade has implemented a large number of initiatives in education since he was elected in 2000.
Chaired by Zhou Qifeng, this university with 30,000 students is one of the best in the country.
2009 Laureate for the Pluralism theme: Project Nanhi Kali
2009 Laureate for the Pluralism theme: Escuela Nueva
2009 Laureate for the Innovation theme: Distance Learning in the Amazon Forest
2009 Laureate for the Innovation theme: Curriki
2009 Laureate for the sustainability theme: WANE
2009 Laureate for the sustainability theme: Self-Sufficient School
Eminent voices are expressing their support for the WISE initiative through video messages.
