UNESCO/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize to Promote Quality Education for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

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News Paris, France - 26th July 2013

The Director-General of UNESCO launched on 24 July, the call to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize to Promote Quality Education for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. This Prize was initially established in 2002 and is sponsored by the State of Kuwait.  Every two years, the Prize rewards the work of individuals, groups, organizations and centres in recognition of their efforts to enable learning for persons with intellectual disabilities. Each of the two prize winners receives a monetary award and a diploma at an official ceremony that takes place either in Kuwait or at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities.

 

NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO are invited to submit nominations for this year edition of the Prize. The deadline for submissions is 13 September 2013. Submissions can be sent by post to the Section for Basic Education at UNESCO, Division for Basic Learning and Skills Development, Education Sector, 7 place de Fontenoy, 75352, Paris, France (tel: +33 1 45 68 0865, fax: +33145685626/27), or by email at: inclusion@unesco.org

 

More information is available at: http://www.unesco.org/new/emir-jaber-al-sabah-prize