Below the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the UAE has launched the second version of the Nice Arab Minds initiative.
Heralded because the ‘Arab Nobel Prize’ for its singular efforts to recognise Arabs who’ve made extraordinary contributions to humanity, the initiative goals to reignite the Arab world’s outstanding spirit of scientific enquiry and management in such quests all through historical past.
The Nice Arab Minds initiative honours distinctive Arab people whose outstanding achievements have helped drive progress and enrich information each throughout the Arab world and globally.
The awards’ six classes embody drugs, engineering and know-how, economics, pure sciences, structure and design, and literature and humanities.
Nominations for each people and establishments shut on 31 October 2024. Nominations could be submitted on https://greatarabminds.ae/ar/nomination-process/
Whereas celebrating pioneers, innovators, and creators whose distinctive achievements forge new paths for his or her nations, Arab communities, and the world, the initiative additionally highlights Arab minds who function position fashions for youthful generations, showcasing their inventive concepts that improve the Arab world’s standing in information, science, and tradition on the worldwide stage.
Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cupboard Affairs and Chairman of the Committee overseeing the Nice Arab Minds initiative, mentioned the imaginative and prescient of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, from the inception of this pioneering initiative, has been to determine a permanent undertaking. This initiative goals to encourage Arab intellectuals, highlight position fashions, and honour gifted people, thereby laying the inspiration for a extra influential Arab scientific motion sooner or later.
Al Gergawi mentioned: “Nice Arab Minds is a strategic undertaking geared toward showcasing the capabilities and potential of Arabs and reviving their historic position in shaping the way forward for the world. It seeks to raise the pillars of human information by way of the values of partnership, cooperation, and future readiness. Our position at present is to have fun Arab minds contributing to the progress of civilization.”
He added: “The initiative focuses on creating Arab position fashions who can function beacons for future generations in precedence sectors. We’re keen to attain even broader optimistic influence within the second version. Our purpose with the Nice Arab Minds initiative is to reignite the centuries-long management of the Arab world in its scientific contribution to humanity.”
Al Gergawi urged educational, cultural, and information establishments throughout the Arab world, in addition to people, to appoint distinctive Arabs with excellent achievements. He famous that the Nice Arab Minds initiative is starting to function a catalyst for the reverse migration of gifted Arabs desirous to return to the area to contribute to improvement, innovation, and creativity.
The second version of Nice Arab Minds will honour six winners. The programme gives a complete prize pool of AED6 million, awarding AED1 million to the winner in every class. This version is predicted to obtain 1000’s of nominations from the Arab area and past.
The Nice Arab Minds initiative continues its custom of appointing professional judging panels for every class. This mannequin was established within the inaugural version to make sure a complete evaluation of every class’s nominations primarily based on its particular necessities. The judging panels embody ministers, officers, consultants, and specialists from the UAE, the Arab world, and internationally.
Nominations bear intensive analysis primarily based on complete standards, together with the achievement itself, evidenced outcomes, certificates, patents, publications, books, analysis, and initiatives. This course of culminates within the choice of the ultimate competing nominations earlier than the winners are finally topped.
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