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Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 20 November 2021 – GESS Education Awards announced the winners of this year’s edition of the prestigious international education recognition programme.

UAE leads all winners with 10 awards, followed by the UK with 3. South Korea and the USA were next with two awards apiece. The rest of the winners came from Hungary, Finland, Norway, Canada, Kuwait and Colombia.

Education professionals and suppliers from around the world entered to compete in the highly sought-after awards, with hundreds of submissions coming from 50 different countries.

“We are delighted to have such a diverse pool of nominees coming from different parts of the globe, and the submissions were of such high calibre our judging panel found it difficult to determine the winner. In some categories, it was so close, we eventually had co-winners. Congratulations to all who won as well as to those who participated. Your work, in the case of our education professionals; and your products, for our corporate suppliers, continue to make a difference in raising quality education standards in schools throughout the world,” said Matt Thompson, Project Director, Tarsus organisers of the GESS Education Awards.

The 2021 GESS Education Awards winners include:

Awards for Suppliers/Distributors

 

 Awards for Teachers, Schools and Educational Professionals

 
Best CSR Programme for Education

·         Alef Education (UAE)

·         Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) – Dubai (UAE)

 

Best Digital / VR / AI Product

·         Deledao Education (USA)

 

Best Free App / Software Product

·         Prezi Video (USA)

 

Best Paid for App / Software Product

·         BookR (Hungary)

 

Best Product to Promote Arts, Music and Drama in the Classroom

·         ELT Songs (UK)

 

 

 

Best Product to Promote Health, Fitness and Sports in the Classroom

·         Upstrive Education from MindMotions LLE (UAE)

 

Best Sustainable / Eco-Friendly Product

·         Kapes (UAE)

 

Innovation Product Awards – Digital / Coding / Software

·         TRUETRUE (coding robot) / I-Scream media Co., LTD.  (South Korea)

 

Innovation Products Awards – Equipment / Hardware / non-ICT

·         MODI (South Korea)

 

Early Years Resource / Equipment Supplier of the Year

·         GraphoGame (Finland)

 

Primary Resource / Equipment Supplier of the Year (in association with Education UAE Magazine)

·         National Online Safety (UK)

 

Secondary and Higher Education Resource / Equipment Supplier of the Year

·         Knowledge Hub (UAE)

 

SEN Resource / Equipment Supplier of the Year

·         Raymond Education (UAE)

 

Start-Up Company of the Year

·         Singapore MathGym (UAE)

 

 Ambassador for the Environment

·         Barbara Anna Zielonka – Nannestad High School (Norway)

·         Charlotte Dawson – GEMS Metropole (UAE)

 

Best Initiative for Inclusion and Wellbeing (in association with Skanda)

·         Dara Davey – Safa British School (UAE)

 

Best Use of Digital Learning in the Classroom

·         Sean Robinson – Connections-based Learning (Canada)

 

Best use of STEAM Learning in the Classroom (in association with EZ-Robot)

·         Matthew Lim – Cheltenham Ladies’ College (UK)

·         Lisa  Davage – The Arbor School (UAE)

 

 

Community Award for Citizenship

·         Andera Biadse – Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem

 

Innovation in Education Award

·         Kevin Fullbrook, Fatema Al Bader and Evgenii Permiakov  – Al-Bayan Bilingual School (Kuwait)

 

Outstanding Contribution in Education Award

·         Maria Victoria Angulo Gonzalez – Ministry of National Education, Colombia (Colombia)

 

Judges Commendation Award – Teachers, Schools and Educational Professionals

·         Mahesh Sajnani

 

Judges Commendation Award – Suppliers

·         OMPT

 

Inspiring Initiative During the Pandemic  – Teachers, Schools and Educational Professionals

·         Olly Lewis and Mark Anderson – LearnLiveUAE

 

Inspiring Initiative During the Pandemic  – Supplier

·         Staff Pulse by Tes

 

Mark Duncan Award for Educational Influencer of the Year

·         Jethro Mac Donald, Training Manager

 

 

 

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World’s first self-driving pods were launched by Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) at the World Government Summit on Sunday.

These pods are launched in collaboration with Next Future Transportation and are designed to travel short and medium distances in chosen lanes.

Every pod is fitted with cameras and electromechanical technologies to carry out the coupling and detaching, which can be activated when the pod is in motion.

RTA director-general and chairman of the board of executive directors Mattar Al Tayer said, “The pilot test of driverless units is directed by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in the context of transforming Dubai into the smartest city worldwide.”

The pods form part of Dubai’s larger strategy of making 25% of all journeys in Dubai autonomous by 2030. RTA has signed an agreement with the US-based Next Future Inc. to develop the units as part of the initial phase of Dubai Future Accelerators.

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