Nominations open for Yidan Prize

Areas

• An all-encompassing education accolade Each year, they award the Yidan Prize to individuals and teams in two areas:
  • Education Research: The theory of learning—science, psychology, statistics—that can help educators gain a more methodical understanding of their approaches.
  • Education Development: The practice of learning—new methods, ways to make education more widespread—so they can champion techniques that work.

Prize Information

• They award each year’s laureates a gold medal and a total sum of HK$30 million—half is a cash prize to recognize their contribution to the sector; the other half is a project fund distributed over three years to support the laureate’s work. They could use this latter half to expand their reach into a new region, begin a new project, or keep doing more of the same brilliant work. They’ll be by their side throughout, supporting them to evaluate how they’re progressing and mapping their impact.

Eligibility Criteria

• They welcome all nominations; their process is open to everyone. You don’t need to be invited to nominate a team or individual for either the Education Research or Education Development prize.
• You are allowed to nominate yourself—you’ll just need at least three supporters instead of two. They consider self-nominations in exactly the same fair, unbiased way, so there’s no advantage or disadvantage to nominating yourself. Remember: if you’re nominating a person or team, you can’t also be a supporter for them. That doesn’t stop you also being a supporter for an unrelated nomination.
• Remember: if you’re nominating a person or team, you can’t also be a supporter for them. That doesn’t stop you also being a supporter for an unrelated nomination.
• Having more than one nomination in one category doesn’t increase the nominee’s chances. If you know others who are also interested in nominating the same person or team, consider choosing one nominator between you, and asking everyone else to be a supporter. It’ll probably make a stronger application overall.
• Same nominee can be nominated more than once in the same category, or they can be nominated in both categories if their work spans research and development. Having more than one nomination in one category doesn’t increase their chances. If you know others who are also interested in nominating the same person or team, consider choosing one nominator between you, and asking everyone else to be a supporter. It’ll probably make a stronger nomination overall.
• You may submit as many nominations as you’d like to.
• There’s a handful of exceptions You can’t make a nomination (or support one) if:
  • you’d like to recognize your immediate family member(s)
  • you’d like to recognize—or you are—one of their current board directors, or on their current judging or advisory committees
  • you’d like to recognize someone posthumously.

For more information, visit Yidan Prize Foundation.