The CEO of the Scientific Excellence Award, Dr. Hamda Hassan Al Sulaiti, speaking to media persons on the details of the award during a press conference at the Ministry, yesterday.
Doha: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education has launched the 13th edition of the Scientific Excellence Award.
The Ministry said that application to participate in its various categories starts from October one until the end of the month.
The CEO of the Scientific Excellence Award, Dr. Hamda Hassan Al Sulaiti, held a press conference yesterday to present the objectives, vision, mission and the nine categories of the award.
Al Sulaiti stressed the importance of the award as it is an occasion to honour distinguished Qataris in various fields in order to spread the culture of creativity and excellence in the Qatari society, pointing to its clear impact in promoting aspects of excellence among individuals and institutions. Al Sulaiti pointed out that three of the previous winners of the award will represent the State of Qatar in an international scientific forum to be held later in Geneva to encourage them for their continued excellence.
Al Sulaiti touched on the various activities of the award, including organising introductory meetings for school administrators and coordinators and concerned ministries and institutions, holding a number of training workshops for the award categories and the organization of its own documentation exhibition.
The Executive Vice-President of the Scientific Excellence Awards, Mona Al Kuwari, explained that the organising committee has developed an awareness plan and held some educational meetings in the summer centres of the Ministry of Culture and Sports about the award, in addition to involving parents in awareness programmes to encourage them to nominate their children to participate in the various categories of the award, as well as the participation of teachers who have won the award before in a number of awareness events.
Speaking at the beginning of the press conference, the Director of Public Relations and Communication at the Ministry and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Award, Hassan Abdullah Al Mohammadi, talked about the progress, objectives and ways to participate in the award and its various categories.
The Scientific Excellence Award is a pillar of the educational system in the State of Qatar. It aims to honour the distinguished Qatari students, and it is also a pathway that fosters creativity and innovation among students and educational institutions.
The award works to deepen the concepts of excellence and creativity through the adoption of international standards, the implementation of specific programmes and the integration of individual and institutional efforts to improve the outcomes of the educational process in Qatar.
