CCE wins WISE Award
27 September 2011
It was announced today that Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) is one of the winners of a US$20,000 WISE Award. The award, from the Qatar-based WISE Foundation, is for CCE’s Creative Partnerships programme, which worked with 2700 schools across England, developing the skills of young people, raising their aspirations and opening up new opportunities.
Running in parallel with the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, the annual WISE Awards are designed to identify, showcase and promote innovative educational projects from around the world in order to spread best practices and build the future of education.
Previous winners have included the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 'The Next Einstein' initiative of South Africa, Save the Children and projects in Nigeria, Pakistan, Ghana, Paraguay, India and Turkey.
Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture & Education (CCE) welcomed the news of the award, saying: "It’s great to have such strong international recognition of the importance of the work we’re doing. The theme of this year’s awards was 'Transforming Education: Investment, Innovation and Inclusion' which sums up pretty neatly our raison d’etre – our programmes transform the education experience of young people, we generate £15.30 of value for every £1 invested in our programmes, nothing else like our work has ever been attempted in the UK on anything like this scale before, and most of our work is with the most disadvantaged, the 40% of young people who have no experience of cultural activity outside school.”
The winners were selected by a jury including Professor Lidia Brito, director of UNESCO’s Science, Policy & Sustainable Development directorate, Esko Aho, former Prime Minister of Finland and Linda Koch Lorimer, Vice President of Yale University.
