The General Secretariat of the National Commissions and Conferences at the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), in cooperation with Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Distinguished Academic Performance, held a workshop to publicize the ICESCO-Hamdan Prize for Voluntary Development of Education Facilities and highlight its requirements and eligibility criteria.

The workshop was held on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, via videoconference from the Meshkat Hall at ICESCO Headquarters, and focused on providing an overview of the partnership program between ICESCO and the Foundation. The workshop also featured presentations on the Meshkat Platform for Educational Excellence Capacities in the field of Arabic for Non-Arabic Speakers, ICESCO-Hamdan Prize for Voluntary Development of Education Facilities: achievements, criteria and prospects, in addition to a video on the Prize and its past editions.

In addition, the workshop featured a video testimony of an institution that won the Prize in a past edition, followed by a discussion where Dr. Ahmad Said Bah, Advisor to the Director-General for Partnerships and International Cooperation, Supervisor of the General Secretariat of the National Commissions and Conferences, answered participants’ questions.

The workshop saw the participation of several representatives of Member States’ National Commissions, and the representatives of associations, bodies and institutions working in the field of developing educational facilities in the Islamic world.