02 Jul 2024

Mawhiba won 1st place in the Khalifa Education Award, one of the most distinguished educational awards locally, regionally, and internationally for its 14th session, 2021 edition, in the innovative education projects and programs category for foundations across the Arab world. Mawhiba participates in the Gifted Classes ; Mawhiba program executed within the partnership schools. The journey of obtaining Mawhiba went through several stages, starting from preparing the participation document, which includes more than 1,000 pages, including appendixes. Then, the jury's meeting was held to examine the document based on several standards such as originality and innovation, methodology and planning, economic sustainability and viability, environmental sustainability, application, and results. Finally, the competition stage between the submitted projects and winning the award. Gifted Classes' Mawhiba Program is one of the specific programs offered by the foundation to support the Gifted and talented students. This program provides specialized scientific curricula in Arabic and English that are added to the curricula of the Ministry of Education. Mawhiba has invested in preparing such curricula in cooperation with top centers of excellence in preparing curricula in the UK. The curricula developed several aspects of the personality of the talented students through enriching their knowledge with recent and in-depth information, supporting the advanced understanding of the issues under consideration, assimilating complicated ideas, and the depth of knowledge structures for study materials. ​This is along with the development of values, trends, and features, such as survey, risk-taking, creativity and trust, open-mindedness, collaboration, and skills in its various aspects.Winning Khalifa Education Award is a significant addition to the foundation, which confidently moves towards high-level achievements in supporting and nurturing talented students in the local and international forums.