Call for nominations open to projects creating synergies between digital learning and greening education
The theme of the 2023 edition is “Digital learning for greening education”.
The UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in education is now accepting applications and nominations. The theme of the 2023 edition is “Digital learning for greening education”.
Digital learning, with its potential to expand access and improve the quality of learning, offers an avenue for the delivery of curricula and pedagogy to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes on climate change and take climate actions.
Specifically, the 2023 edition of the Prize aims to showcase projects that design and deploy digital technologies, appropriately and ethically, to create inclusive and engaging learning experiences centered around the critical topic of climate change.
It prioritizes digital learning projects grounded in rigorous needs assessment while giving due consideration to the domain-specific nature of climate education, learners’ interests, and local contexts. To leverage the full potential of digital learning, pedagogical methodologies should also be adapted to meet the needs of climate education and foster climate actions among learners.
By encouraging synergies between public digital learning and green education, and by showcasing best practices in this field, this edition of the Prize also addresses several priority areas identified at the Transforming Education Summit that took place in 2022.
Two winners will be selected by the Director-General of UNESCO based on the recommendations of an international Jury, and each winner will receive a reward of US$ 25,000, a diploma, and international recognition during an award ceremony to be held at UNESCO Headquarters.