Yidan Prize for Education Research and Education Development

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Applications are now open for the Yidan Prize to create a better world through education. The prize aims to progress learning by building a global community committed to advancing ideas in education.

Yidan Prize Areas of Focus

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 (shared equally for teams); the other half is a project fund distributed over three years to support the laureate’s work.

Eligibility Criteria for Yidan Prize

They welcome all nominations; the 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.
The prizes are open to teams of up to three. That could be a research group working on a project together.
Same nominee can be nominated more than once in the same category, or they can be nominated in both categories if their work spans both research and development.
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.

Ineligibility Criteria

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 the current board directors, or on the current judging or advisory committees
you’d like to recognize someone posthumously