Financial aid: Prizes

Date: April 2012

Deadline: Registration Closed

Open to : All Interested

The 'UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Al-Maktoum Prize

For Outstanding Practice and Performance

in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers

Dubai, UAE, April 2012

The ‘UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers’, set up in 2009 and funded by his Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, aims to support, encourage and benefit those working to enhance the performance and effectiveness of teachers towards Education for All. It attaches particular importance to outstanding practices in developing country contexts or those aimed at marginalized and disadvantaged communities. It also aims to faciliate the global sharing and dissemination of outstanding practices regarding teachers.

Every two years, the Prize will reward three candidates from around the world who have shown outstanding achievement in enhancing the performance and effectiveness of teachers in developing countries or within marginalized or disadvantaged communities from the wider global context.

Amount of the Prize:

The value of the Prize shall be US $270,000, divided between three winners. The value of each award shall thus be US $90,000, which shall be provided in kind or in the form of educational and academic services to the winning institutions.

Who can apply?

Candidates may be Organizations, international or national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), institutions or local, national and regional communities who are working to enhance the performance and effectiveness of teachers.  Candidates cannot be individuals.

Deadline: 15 September 2011

Attachment: Guidelines

Contact Information:

UNESCO - Section for Teacher Policy & Development

ATTN: UNESCO-Hamdan Prize, 7 place de Fontenoy, F-75352 Paris 07 SP, France

Tel: 04 262 1888

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Website: http://www.hamdanunesco.ae