98 winners of the 23rd "Hamdan Education" Awards

Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Distinguished Academic Performance announced the 23 winners of its 23rd cycle, totaling 98 winners, distributed among 79 winners at the local level, with 64 out of 224 candidates in the Distinguished Student category, and one winning school out of five schools that ran in the Distinguished School category. , And four winners out of 20 candidates in the Distinguished Teacher category, eight winners out of 35 candidates in the Distinguished Education Category, and two winners out of seven candidates in the Supporting Institutions category, namely Abu Dhabi Police for the "Community Aid" initiative and Dubai Municipality for the "Community Responsibility Activities Program" initiative. In the field of environmental sustainability of the educational sector, "while the number of winners of the Foundation’s awards across the Gulf Cooperation Council countries reached 16, with an increase of 4%, with 8 students out of 31 candidates in the Distinguished Student category, and 3 teachers out of 28 teachers in the Distinguished Teacher category. And 5 schools out of 23 schools that were nominated in the Distinguished School category, and for the Distinguished Educational Research Award at the level of the Arab world, the number of winners reached 3 researches - two from the Arab Republic of Egypt and the third from Saudi Arabia from a

Reach 135 candidates from 13 Arab countries.

This came during the hypothetical meeting held yesterday, chaired by the Minister of Education and Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi, in which the Foundation’s Secretary General, Dr. Jamal Al Muhairi, participated.

At the beginning of his speech, Al Hammadi thanked His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and Supreme Chair of the Foundation, in appreciation of his continuous support for educational excellence and the care of talented and innovative people, as well as his valuable initiatives to develop education at the local, regional and international levels.

 He added that the set of awards, programs and projects that the Foundation worked on in the twenty-third session and contributed well to overcoming the repercussions of the Covid 19 pandemic and being able to complete the established plan, which reflects the strength of the institution’s performance and its adaptation to new developments thanks to the rapid innovation of technical solutions, cooperation and solidarity by partners and targets in society in particular. The categories aspiring to distinction and who were keen to apply for the award and certificate of excellence.

For his part, Dr. Jamal Al-Muhairi Al-Amin affirmed that the 23rd session of the Foundation’s awards is to strengthen the means of empowerment and support by His Highness the President of the Foundation as well as the Board of Trustees in order to maintain the level of performance in order to achieve the goals of the institution in light of the challenges of the pandemic, and from the reality of keenness to keep pace with the changes and harmony with the nature Continuous development in the educational field and the need for the elements of the educational system to flexible methodologies The Foundation applies the new structure for the awards, which aimed to enhance motivation by raising the shares of winning in some categories and increasing the value of rewards as well as reducing the number of categories through merging, modifying the titles, updating the standards and conditions, and applying the list of arbitrators after approval. By the Board of Trustees, as the Foundation has approved 27 accredited arbitrators to arbitrate 516 eligible applications for applicants for local, Gulf and Arab awards, as the remote arbitration mechanism was applied in the personal interview phase.

He pointed out that the Foundation had earlier, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, honored three winning educational institutions from the Republic of Egypt, Brazil and Portugal with the UNESCO Hamdan Prize for Teacher Performance Development out of 198 candidates, in conjunction with the renewal of the award agreement for the next six years, and that the Foundation is in the process of judging 37 applications. In the Hamdan-ISESCO Prize for volunteering in developing educational facilities in the Islamic world, as the results are scheduled to be announced next April in Marrakesh, Morocco, where ISESCO is based.

On the level of specific programs that serve the educational field, Al-Muhairi said: We continue our partnerships with prestigious institutions in implementing some academic programs such as the Master of Innovative Education in cooperation with the United Arab Emirates University, the Master of Gifted Education in cooperation with Hamdan Smart University, and the Fab Academic Diploma in cooperation with FAP International. The Foundation is about to organize a global conference for the gifted in cooperation with international bodies at the Dubai Expo, in which the global platform for the gifted will be launched.  

And the German University of Regensburg, which will bring together elite scientists, specialists, talented students, teachers and parents around the world in one virtual center, and its outputs will include apprenticeships, training, research programs, educational films, international awards, and the establishment of a global accreditation agency. MINCRAFT in the field of sustainability in May, and the Foundation also organizes a drone competition next October, and in this regard we are proud that the students of the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Center for Giftedness and Innovation won 11 advanced centers in two international competitions for robots.

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