SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
2017’S “OSCARS” OF EDUCATION: OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS
This prize will be given to the project most successful in (a) fostering and encouraging leadership among students, and (b) ensuring that students are aware of the ethical implications of leadership.
We seek any innovative new technological tool, or any project that encourages students to examine and partake in leadership scenarios, and to interrogate the type of ethically-weighted decisions leaders are forced to make.
Ethical Leadership Award: sponsored by the World Economic Forum
Today’s universities are tasked with developing tomorrow’s leaders. They are tasked with encouraging today’s students to show initiative, build relationships, and act assertively.
Yet it is not enough to equip students with the skills necessary to become leaders. It is also necessary that tomorrow’s leaders are conscientious, responsible and morally conscious – in essence, that they direct their leadership qualities towards ethical causes, leading in ethical ways.
Reimagine Education is therefore collaborating with the World Economic Forum in order to create its inaugural Ethical Leadership Award. It will acknowledge the project that is most successful in:
- Encouraging students to adopt leadership roles;
- Encouraging students to interrogate the question of leadership, examining and critiquing current leaders and models of leadership;
- Encouraging students to examine the ethical implications and consequences of leadership, and the decisions with which leaders are faced;
- Encouraging students to partake in, and/or initiate projects in which they direct leadership qualities towards pursuits with positive ethical outcomes.
Past Winner Ethical Leadership Award: Williamson College of the Trades, United States
Williamson conducts vocational training in an immersive educational environment, simultaneously focusing on character and skill development. Substantiated by exceptional yield, graduation, and employment rates, and by rigorous third-party research, Williamson’s approach serves as a model for innovative, alternative post-secondary education.
www.williamson.edu
Defiance College, United States
The FAGIN Project aims to develop a facial recognition tool to help law enforcement to identify and assist victims of global human trafficking. Students from DFS, criminal justice, and forensic science majors also recently planned and run the college’s summer camp, which introduces students to crime scene investigations and forensics. www.defiance.edu
LUISS Guido Carli, Italy
This project seeks to provide a wide range of training opportunities driven by the combination of soft skills and personal awareness based on three core values: Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability. Every student, helped by their personal tutor, can choose suitable training opportunities, creating a bespoke CV according to their wish. www.luiss.edu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
HKPU has developed a credit-bearing subject entitled ‘Service Leadership ’based on the Service Leadership and Management (SLAM) curriculum framework proposed by Po Chung, the Co-founder of DHL International. The subject includes topics on the basic service leadership theory and three essential leadership qualities, and enrolment continues to grow. www.polyu.edu.hk
Seeking inspiration? Find out about the World Economic Forum’s mission in the below video.
Want to find out more about the World Economic Forum’s project before applying? Their current initiatives can be found here!