Philippe Maystadt Prize for Tomorrow’s Education 2024-2025 – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Philippe Maystadt Prize for Tomorrow’s Education 2024-2025. The goal of the award is to reward the very best closing tasks, bachelor’s, grasp’s and doctoral theses by college students within the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium) that cowl the assorted dimensions of schooling, with a specific concentrate on larger schooling, and that are probably transferable to the Wallonia-Brussels Federation as an entire.

The Award pays tribute to Philippe Maystadt, Minister of State and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of ARES, who died on 7 December 2017, for his energetic contribution to schooling and analysis within the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

Award

• Baccalaureate Prize: The “Bac” prize, value €2,000, rewards a closing thesis on the finish of the first cycle of research defended in a course of study at a better schooling establishment, a better college of arts or a better schooling establishment for social development (brief bachelor’s diploma and specialised bachelor’s diploma).
• Master Prize: The “Master’s” prize, value €2,000, rewards a 2nd cycle finish-of-research thesis defended in a course of study at a college, school, college of arts or a better schooling establishment for social development (grasp’s, grasp’s diploma in specialisation, physician, veterinary physician and higher secondary schooling instructor).
• Doc Award: The “Doc” prize, value €4,000, rewards a doctoral thesis defended with a view to acquiring the educational diploma of physician.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the work submitted should:

• be private, unique and unpublished works, and introduced to the Prize by their writer(s), hereinafter known as “the candidate”.
• have been efficiently introduced and/or defended, in the course of the 2024-2025 tutorial yr, in a recognised larger schooling establishment within the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
• for the “Bac” and “Master” prizes, be finish-of-research work inside the which means of Article 126 of the “Landscape” Decree.
• for the “Doc” prize, be doctoral theses inside the which means of Article 71, § 3 of the “Landscape” Decree.
• for the “Bac” and “Master” prizes, have obtained a minimal rating of 16/20 (80%), attested by a transcript of grades, diploma or achievement.

Evaluation Criteria

The works are evaluated by the jury on the premise of the application recordsdata and in response to the next standards:

• the theme addressed and the depth of the hyperlink with schooling and specifically with larger schooling;
• the originality and the progressive and potential nature of the topic and/or its therapy,
• the theoretical framework, methodological and scientific rigor,
• the readability of the arguments and the potential of popularization,
• the standard of the evaluation and the outcomes obtained.

The following two standards may additionally be used, if vital:

• the potential advantages of the work for schooling on the whole, and their potential transposability to the extent of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation,
• the societal dimension (contribution to social emancipation, sustainable growth, improved effectively-being, and so forth.).

Application

You can be requested to submit the next paperwork in PDF:

• the ultimate thesis or the doctoral thesis,
• official proof of the consequence obtained for this work (transcript, certificates of diploma or achievement, thesis report – no screenshot),
• a abstract of the work (1 web page most), in French, specifying the subject material, the theoretical and methodological framework, the bounds, conclusions and views of the analysis,
• a abstract of popularization (10 traces most), in French, explaining what the analysis carried out can convey to the reflection on instructing (on academic insurance policies, pedagogical practices, and so forth.). This textual content will permit the jury to guage the potential for popularization of the work. He will essentially make the hyperlink with the target of the prize.

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For extra info, go to Philippe Maystadt Prize.