The reception was organised by the Carnegie Foundation in co-operation with Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development in preparation of the Foundation’s launch of the WISE.

HH Sheikha Mozah, who is the chairperson of Qatar Foundation, for Education, Science and Community Development, delivered a speech in which she announced the launch of WISE.

The WISE is expected to be held between November 16 and 18.

The WISE, which promises to become a global event, will provide a forum for the world’s leaders in education to meet and debate current issues, and discuss solutions to educational challenges.

HH Sheikha Mozah said that the WISE is based on the practical awareness that the challenges in education are no longer bound by political boundaries.

“Therefore,” she said, “its mandate is international.”

The WISE recognises the challenges facing the world community that require innovative solutions not achieved by traditional approaches alone.

“The WISE asserts that the desire to innovate is, in fact, an innate human need to shape and improve our environment,” HH Sheikha Mozah said. “All of our projects, including the WISE, are humanistic and innovative at their very core because we believe to be human is to be innovative.”

She assured the invitees that “by sharing in the WISE vision you will reaffirm our trust that we can build a better world through education”.