The Yidan Prize Foundation announces 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 future-oriented, 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.

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.

“The Yidan Prize has consistently prioritized and advanced education research and development in today’s rapidly changing world,” said Lucy Lake, Director of Global Engagement at Yidan Prize Foundation and 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development Laureate. “As a laureate, I’ve witnessed firsthand how the Yidan Prize accelerates transformative change in education. Now, as a member of the team, I’m excited to open up this possibility to others and I encourage leaders from around the world to make a nomination for the prize and join our global learning community.”

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