Yidan Prize Summit Shapes an Outlook on the Future of Education
2017年12月12日 - 7:02AM
JCN Newswire
With today's educational systems remaining essential to
preparing new generations for an increasingly complex and uncertain
future, the largest international prize in education, the Yidan
Prize, presented its inaugural Yidan Prize Summit, towards
navigating ways of revolutionizing education and driving mankind
into an era of human-machine interdependence.
With a theme of "Education Redefined: The Future is Now", the
summit brought together more than 350 global leaders including
business leaders, policy makers, and senior representatives from
multilaterals, NGOs and academia to discuss collaborating across
sectors and responding to inexorable challenges by an innovative,
sustainable, transformative and scalable approach.
The event featured prominent speakers that included the inaugural
Prize laureates, Professor Carol S. Dweck of Stanford University
and Vicky Colbert, founder and director of Fundacion Escuela Nueva
in Colombia, H.E Dr Ahmed Al-Eissa, Minister of Education, Saudi
Arabia, Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women,
Dr Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO,
Jaime Saavedra, Senior Director, Education, World Bank Group, and
among others, many distinguished businesses, academics and
government officials.
The day's summit offered a platform for outcome-driven dialogues
around topics such as:
- Classrooms of the Future: Implementing Innovative Learning - How
can innovative educational technologies be integrated into today's
classroom to create a more engaging, inspiring and effective
learning experience?
- Investing in Future-Ready Education - What are the opportunities
for productive and mutually beneficial collaboration between
investors and educators that will future-proof education for the
younger generation?
- Closing the Skills Gap in an Automated World - What can be done
to fill the gap between the skills taught in school and those
required for a vastly different marketplace of the future?
- Everyone Counts - Education for All by 2030 - What needs to
happen in the next 12 years to achieve this UN Sustainable
Development Goals?
"At the inaugural Yidan Prize Summit, we have a wealth of
experience gathered, from those who work on the front lines
teaching to research and practice innovation to those investing in
EdTech to ease the way for great technologies to reach the market,
to formulate education policies that affect the direction of
education resources investment. Such multi-stakeholder dialogue is
critical to redefining education for a better future," said Dr
Charles Chen Yidan, Founder of the Yidan Prize and Core Founder of
Tencent Holdings.
At the award presentation on Sunday, the inaugural Yidan Prize
laureates accepted the awards and a gold medal, each conferred by
The Honorable Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, GBM, GBS, Chief
Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Nominations for the 2018 Yidan Prize are currently open, and will
be accepted until March 31, 2018. To nominate, visit
http://nomination.yidanprize.org.
About Yidan Prize
The Yidan Prize is founded by Dr Charles Chen Yidan, the core
founder of Tencent Holdings Limited. The Prize aims to recognize
and support change makers for their most forward looking innovation
that can create sustainable impacts on education systems for a
better future. The Prize comprises two categories - the Yidan Prize
for Education Research and the Yidan Prize for Education
Development.
The Prize is financed and governed by a HK$2.5 billion (US$320
million) independent trust. Each prize carries an award of HK$30
million (US$3.87 million), being a cash award of HK$15 million
(US$1.9 million) and a HK$15 million (US$1.9 million) project fund,
and a gold medal. Through a series of initiatives, the prize serves
to provide a platform that allows the global community to engage in
conversation around education and to play a role in education
philanthropy. For more information, please visit
www.yidanprize.org.
The 2017 Yidan Prize Award Ceremony was held on Sunday, December 10
at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, the Yidan Prize
Summit on Monday, December 11 at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. Details
of the Summit at http://summit.yidanprize.org/.
Media contacts
Yidan Prize Foundation
Lawrence Lui
Tel: +852 2155 1582
Email: summit@yidanprize.org
Mikhailov & Partners
Valya Plotnikova
Tel: +7 495 956 39 72 (ext. 1187)
Mob: +7 926 167 35 57
Email: Plotnikova@m-p.ru
Source: Yidan Prize Foundation
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