The WISE Awards

The World Innovation Summit for Education is an international initiative aimed at transforming education through innovation. WISE was established by Qatar Foundation in 2009 under the patronage of its chairperson, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser.

Each year the WISE Awards recognize and promotes six projects that address global educational challenges. A pre-jury composed of education experts assesses submissions and selects a shortlist of fifteen finalists. Following this, a jury chooses the six award-winning projects.^[1] Winners receive a cash prize of $20,000.^[2] The first WISE Awards were handed out in 2009.

2015 WISE Awards

• Al-Bairaq
• Bridge International Academies
• Nafham
• Educate!
• The Talking Book Program
• VideoBook for Deaf Children

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2014 WISE Awards

• Alternate Education for Rural Development in Peru
• Me and My City
• We Love Reading
• The Song Room
• Street Children: Re-integration through Education
• Educate Girls

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2013 WISE Awards

• Alison
• iThra Youth Initiative
• Medersat.com
• Pathways to Education
• PEAS
• Te Kotahitanga

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2012 WISE Awards

• Cristo Rey Network Corporate Work Study Program
• PSU Educarchile
• RoboBraille
• Satya Bharti School Program
• Solar-Powered Floating Schools
• Cambodian Children's Fund Generational Change through Education

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2011 WISE Awards

• BBC Janala
• OpenStax CNX
• Creative Partnerships
• School-Business Partnerships
• SueñaLetras
• Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA)

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2010 WISE Awards

• The Citizens Foundation
• Mother Child Education program (MOCEP)
• The Smallholder Farmers Rural Radio
• MIT OpenCourseWave
• NextEinstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI)
• Rewrite the Future

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2009 WISE Awards

• Project Nanhi Kali
• Escuela Nueva
• Curriki
• Distance Learning in the Amazon Forest
• The Financially Sustainable School
• Widows Alliance Network (WANE)

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