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DOHA, Qatar, Dec. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Thousands of thinkers, innovators, and practitioners

joined the event in-person and online to help build the next generation of

changemakers

The 2021 WISE Summit has marked a seminal moment in education change. In one of

the biggest global education events of its kind, thousands of thinkers,

innovators, and practitioners came together to envisage how the global shock of

the pandemic can – and must – be the catalyst for deep and lasting reform.

In what was WISE Summit’s first hybrid event, 11,110 participants registered

online and more than 2,100 attended in-person sessions at Qatar National

Convention Centre – located in Education City in Doha, Qatar – with delegates

and speakers representing 177 countries. The summit brought together education

pioneers who are delivering on the ground and who came to share concrete

projects.

At the end of the summit, Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO of WISE, said: “We built

this platform over a decade ago to amplify the work that organizations are

doing and to create a community. And in the midst of a global pandemic, we

managed to come together once again – in-person and online – for three days of

conversation, inspiration, and recommitment to the cause of quality education

for all.

In the years and decades to come, the world is going to need movements like

WISE to be a catalyst for collective intelligences and energies.”

2021 WISE Summit highlights, from 200 in-person and online sessions:

- Key sessions examined how EdTech can transform learning in the MENA region,

where there are steep challenges in learning outcomes within a huge diversity

of cultures.

- This year’s WISE AWARDS winners were honoured for the inspiring ways in

which they had developed an effective, tried and tested solution to a global

educational challenge.

- Young education changemakers from around the world held centre stage at

WISE’s first Youth Studio to demand a radically new education system.

- The CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, Wendy Kopp, received the WISE Prize

for Education for her innovative global network to bring education

opportunities to all.

- The Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Marc

Brackett, told delegates that young people are experiencing a global mental

health crisis in the wake of the pandemic. He said: “It is our moral obligation

that every child gets the emotional education that they really deserve.“

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Contacts: media@wise.org.qa

SOURCE: WISE 2021