he 10th edition of WISE 2021 is set to take place in Doha, Qatar and virtually on 7-9 December, under the theme: “Generation Unmute: Reclaiming our Future through Education.” Diplomatic Courier’s editorial leadership will be both on the ground and online to report live. Our Chief Ana C. Rold will moderate two panels titled: “Back to the Future: Personalized Learning After the Pandemic” (December 8 at 11:30 am Doha Time) and “Women in Education: Breaking the Glass Ceiling” (December 9 at 2:45 pm Doha Time). Readers can sign up to attend both meetings and much more here.
Who is Building the Future of Education?
This year’s WISE Summit is unique in that not only brings young voices to the world stage; it has enlisted youth leaders to curate and co-create the agenda. Youth have curated content, speakers, and key meetings and have been afforded the kind of VIP status leaders and experts of multilateral institutions are typically given.
“There has never been a more pressing need to connect education experts, policymakers, social entrepreneurs and—most importantly—young people to discuss how we can reclaim our future through education,” explains CEO of WISE Stavros N. Yiannouka, who has written about the multiple crises the world is facing because of the sector’s failures. “Over the last few decades education has been touted as a panacea for the world’s ills. So, we need to account for an apparent global failure to find a way forward on a range of issues, and find ways to build consensus—for the sake of young people now and for future generations,” he explains.
What to Expect from WISE 2021?
This year’s summit is hybrid with over 170 sessions—panels, debates, talks, workshops and more—available for those attending in person as well as virtually. A third set of programming, available online only and across multiple time zones, is designed to foster global conversations. This is the culmination of a series of global discussions that began in September during Global Goals week at UNGA and continued during youth convenings in Milan and COP26 meetings in Glasgow. In Doha, experts and contributors will explore the most pressing issues in the post-pandemic education landscape. What urgent reforms must we take on so that students will recover from the disruption and thrive? How can we put social and emotional learning at the heart of education? How can we develop rich relationships between students, teachers, and parents? And how can we better leverage technology so that it brings more equity rather than divide?
The WISE Prize for Education
From the world’s most under-resourced communities to the offices of Prime Ministers, education is the rare issue on which there’s nearly universal agreement—that investments from early childhood learning to aerospace engineering can lift millions out of poverty, advance science, save lives, and drive economies. But even though we collectively value education, we often struggle to share much of anything else about it. Established in 2011 the WISE Prize for Education is the first distinction of its kind to recognize an individual or a team for an outstanding, world-class contribution to education. This year’s winner will be officially recognized at the WISE Summit.
In addition, six winners of the WISE Awards for innovation in education will also be officially recognized and celebrated. Six projects are awarded for their innovative and impactful approaches to pressing education matters. This year’s diverse pool of projects come from all over the world and tackle different education challenges, from literacy to EdTech, and social and emotional learning.
This year’s six winners are: the Delhi Government’s Happiness Curriculum, creating time at school to develop mindfulness, critical thinking and other social and emotional skills; Taleemabad, a ‘city of education’ in Pakistan providing localized content using digital technologies; Trauma Informed Schools in Turkey to help young Syrian refugees and the community around them; Onetab, a solar-charged tablet developed by the UK and Nigeria-based company Onebillion to build literacy and numeracy schools in any country; ProFuturo Digital Education Programme, from the Telefonica and la Caixa foundations, creating a digital education program in areas without connectivity; and Let’s All Learn to Read is an innovative model for developing literacy in Colombia and Panama.
Join us live next week in an unprecedented global gathering of multi-stakeholders working to reclaim the future of education. Register here.
Editor’s Note: Diplomatic Courier is an International Media Partner for WISE 2021 Summit.
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Reclaiming the Future through Education: Meet Generation Unmute in Doha
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December 4, 2021
Thousands of education stakeholders and innovators from around the world are set to convene in person and online for one of the largest and most influential gatherings to shape the future of education.
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he 10th edition of WISE 2021 is set to take place in Doha, Qatar and virtually on 7-9 December, under the theme: “Generation Unmute: Reclaiming our Future through Education.” Diplomatic Courier’s editorial leadership will be both on the ground and online to report live. Our Chief Ana C. Rold will moderate two panels titled: “Back to the Future: Personalized Learning After the Pandemic” (December 8 at 11:30 am Doha Time) and “Women in Education: Breaking the Glass Ceiling” (December 9 at 2:45 pm Doha Time). Readers can sign up to attend both meetings and much more here.
Who is Building the Future of Education?
This year’s WISE Summit is unique in that not only brings young voices to the world stage; it has enlisted youth leaders to curate and co-create the agenda. Youth have curated content, speakers, and key meetings and have been afforded the kind of VIP status leaders and experts of multilateral institutions are typically given.
“There has never been a more pressing need to connect education experts, policymakers, social entrepreneurs and—most importantly—young people to discuss how we can reclaim our future through education,” explains CEO of WISE Stavros N. Yiannouka, who has written about the multiple crises the world is facing because of the sector’s failures. “Over the last few decades education has been touted as a panacea for the world’s ills. So, we need to account for an apparent global failure to find a way forward on a range of issues, and find ways to build consensus—for the sake of young people now and for future generations,” he explains.
What to Expect from WISE 2021?
This year’s summit is hybrid with over 170 sessions—panels, debates, talks, workshops and more—available for those attending in person as well as virtually. A third set of programming, available online only and across multiple time zones, is designed to foster global conversations. This is the culmination of a series of global discussions that began in September during Global Goals week at UNGA and continued during youth convenings in Milan and COP26 meetings in Glasgow. In Doha, experts and contributors will explore the most pressing issues in the post-pandemic education landscape. What urgent reforms must we take on so that students will recover from the disruption and thrive? How can we put social and emotional learning at the heart of education? How can we develop rich relationships between students, teachers, and parents? And how can we better leverage technology so that it brings more equity rather than divide?
The WISE Prize for Education
From the world’s most under-resourced communities to the offices of Prime Ministers, education is the rare issue on which there’s nearly universal agreement—that investments from early childhood learning to aerospace engineering can lift millions out of poverty, advance science, save lives, and drive economies. But even though we collectively value education, we often struggle to share much of anything else about it. Established in 2011 the WISE Prize for Education is the first distinction of its kind to recognize an individual or a team for an outstanding, world-class contribution to education. This year’s winner will be officially recognized at the WISE Summit.
In addition, six winners of the WISE Awards for innovation in education will also be officially recognized and celebrated. Six projects are awarded for their innovative and impactful approaches to pressing education matters. This year’s diverse pool of projects come from all over the world and tackle different education challenges, from literacy to EdTech, and social and emotional learning.
This year’s six winners are: the Delhi Government’s Happiness Curriculum, creating time at school to develop mindfulness, critical thinking and other social and emotional skills; Taleemabad, a ‘city of education’ in Pakistan providing localized content using digital technologies; Trauma Informed Schools in Turkey to help young Syrian refugees and the community around them; Onetab, a solar-charged tablet developed by the UK and Nigeria-based company Onebillion to build literacy and numeracy schools in any country; ProFuturo Digital Education Programme, from the Telefonica and la Caixa foundations, creating a digital education program in areas without connectivity; and Let’s All Learn to Read is an innovative model for developing literacy in Colombia and Panama.
Join us live next week in an unprecedented global gathering of multi-stakeholders working to reclaim the future of education. Register here.
Editor’s Note: Diplomatic Courier is an International Media Partner for WISE 2021 Summit.
