Yidan Prize

Eligibility

We welcome all nominations; our 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 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 our current board directors, or on our current judging or advisory committees

• you’d like to recognize someone posthumously.

Summary

We launched the Yidan Prize Foundation in 2016 for one reason: to create a better world through education. Where learning flourishes, so does society, and we’re here to champion the people making that possible.

Each year, we 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 we can champion techniques that work.

We 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. We’ll be by their side throughout, supporting them to evaluate how they’re progressing and mapping their impact.

Note deadline is 31 March 2024 at 12 noon HKT (GMT+8)

Application deadlines

Program application deadline

Nomination
Begin by registering for a nominator account at nomination.yidanprize.org/
To get you started, we have included sample nomination forms for Education Research and Education Development.