UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in Education 2025 ($25,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: March 28, 2025

Nominations are open for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in Education 2025. UNESCO calls for nominations for the particular 2025 version on the theme “Preparing learners and teachers for the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence”.

The UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education acknowledges modern approaches in leveraging new applied sciences to increase academic and lifelong studying alternatives for all, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Goal 4 on training.

Established in 2005 with the assist of the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Prize rewards people and organizations which can be implementing excellent tasks and selling the artistic use of applied sciences to boost studying, instructing and total academic efficiency in the digital age.

2025 Theme

Theme of the 2025 version: Preparing learners and lecturers for the moral and accountable use of synthetic intelligence.

Education techniques play a foundational function in serving to each lecturers and learners develop the AI competencies wanted to navigate a world the place AI is turning into more and more pervasive. This requires cultivating important AI literacy, together with an understanding of how the know-how works, its evolving capabilities, strengths, limitations, and dangers. It includes not solely technical data but additionally moral and demanding consciousness of AI instruments. With important AI competencies, lecturers and learners can successfully steer AI use towards desired academic outcomes and contribute to the co-creation of future instruments.  

Within this context, the 2025 UNESCO ICT in Education Prize seeks to floor and highlight finest practices that empower younger generations and training stakeholders with key AI expertise, fostering important considering and enabling them to navigate and harness this transformative know-how responsibly.

Prize

• Each prize winner receives US$ 25,000, a medal and a diploma throughout a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

Eligibility

• Open to:
  • Individuals
  • establishments
  • non-governmental organizations or different entities.
• Be related to the theme of the yr;
• The undertaking must be ongoing for not less than 1 yr;
• The undertaking and its group shouldn’t be affiliated to UNESCO or obtain any funding from UNESCO;
• The undertaking must be public and free of cost.

Selection Criteria

• Integrated strategy to the use of AI: The undertaking ought to reveal an built-in strategy that addresses technical understanding of AI with important reflection on implications on society and setting at giant, guaranteeing that learners and educators not solely develop sensible AI expertise but additionally domesticate the skill to guage, responsibly use, and co-create AI applied sciences in the undertaking context.
• Pedagogical relevance: The undertaking ought to reveal an alignment with sound pedagogical rules, with an intent to make sure that the design, content material, and supply strategies are applicable for the goal teams.
• Promotion of inclusive studying alternatives: The undertaking ought to contemplate inclusion in the design and implementation, in order that they’re equally accessible to all members in the goal teams. The undertaking may also be designed particularly for underserved communities reminiscent of refugees, learners with particular academic wants, audio system of minority languages, and many others. 
• Evidence of progress: The undertaking ought to present proof of its outcomes, together with the quantity of people reached, impression on track teams, and different achievement of pre-set undertaking targets. The undertaking might contemplate constructing proof base to tell scale-up or future adaptation.
• Potential for replicability and scalability: The undertaking demonstrates the potential to be replicated in different contexts and reveals promise for additional optimization and scaling to increase its impression.

Nomination

For the application to be thought-about, it must be nominated by both the National Commission of the UNESCO Member State or an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO.

All candidates are inspired to get in contact with the NGO or National Commission forward of the application course of. Self-nominations won’t be accepted.

For extra info, go to UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize.