2025 Yidan Prize: Recognizing excellence in education, nominations invited
Stanley Ihedigbo
Yidan Prize Foundation announced a global call for nominations for the 2025
Yidan Prize.
The world’s highest education accolade welcomes changemakers globally to join its expert community in addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing education today.
With a mission to create a better world through education, the Yidan Prize Foundation champions ideas that are futureoriented, innovative, transformative, and sustainable.
Two prizes are awarded annually, the Yidan Prize for Education Research and the Yidan Prize for Education Development, to individuals or teams advancing the theory and practice of
teaching and learning.
Yidan Prize Laureates will receive a gold medal and a total sum of HK$30 million (US$3.8 million).
Half of the amount is a cash prize, while the other half is an unrestricted project fund designed to support the laureates in scaling their work.
For teams, the cash prize and project fund are shared equally.
Yidan Prize for Education Research and Yidan Prize for Education Development gold medals.
To date, the Yidan Prize Foundation has supported 19 changemakers in education on their projects in over 50 countries.
They include the 2024 Education Research laureate, Professor Wolfgang Lutz, for his demographic research in
understanding the long-term benefits of near-term investments in quality education; and the 2024 Education
Development laureates, Professor Mark Jordans, Marwa Zahr, and Luke Stannard of War Child Alliance, for the ‘Can’t
Wait to Learn’ digital learning intervention supporting over 205,000 marginalized children in conflict-affected and resource-constrained settings.
“Africa has the largest youth population of any continent, which makes education more important than ever in preparing
the next generations,” said CEO of CAMFED and 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development Laureate, Angeline Murimirwa.
“Significant efforts are underway to transform education systems to better serve the needs of young people in
the region, and the Yidan Prize seeks to highlight these initiatives. I encourage all education changemakers to apply for
the 2025 Yidan Prize and join us in creating a more equitable world through education.”
Angeline Murimirwa, CEO of CAMFED and 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development Laureate Nominations for the 2025 Yidan Prize, have begun and will close on 31 March, 2025.
To learn more about making a Yidan
Prize nomination, visit the Yidan Prize Foundation website: yidanprize.org.
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