Arab Creativity Award

At the beginning of its inception (from 2002 to 2005), the Arab Thought Foundation allocated three awards to honor pioneers, innovators and talented youth. The Pioneer Award was given to those who have made a head start in their field of work, by thought or by practice, and to those who left an impact or formed a school in their field of specialization. The Innovator Award was awarded to those who have produced innovative work in the various fields of science, knowledge and culture. As for the Talented Youth Award, it was granted to those with exceptional capabilities in the academic, intellectual, technical, artistic and leadership fields of youth in the general and higher education stages.

Since the beginning of the year 2007, a new award was introduced to honor the pioneers, innovators and talented people under the name of the "Arab Creativity Award". This award honors brilliant Arab innovators, and sheds light on promising inventors, with the aim of publicizing their achievements and highlighting the role of ideas and inventive actions in the development of our societies. The Arab Thought Foundation grants the award in the belief that there are innovators in the Arab world, in recognition and pride of their achievements, and as an investment in ingenious minds and energies.

As for the “Most Valuable Book Award”, it was established at the conclusion of the “Conference on Authoring and Publishing in the Arab World” organized by the Arab Thought Foundation in Beirut, in 2009, within the framework of the “Partners for the Arab Book” initiative launched by His Royal Highness Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, President of ATF. It aims to encourage qualitative authorship.

ATF awards the "Arab Creativity Award" during a gala dinner organized on the sidelines of the annual FIKR Conference, in the presence of high-ranking officials, leaders from the public and private sectors, thinkers, decision-makers, strategists, representatives of civil society organizations, and a group of senior figures of culture, thought, media, experts and youth. During the ceremony, a "Lifetime Achievement Award" is awarded to leading Arab personalities or organizations that have had an exceptional role in their country.

The Arab Creativity Award honors the brightest Arab innovators, and sheds light on promising creators, with the aim of publicizing their achievements and highlighting the role of ideas and creative actions in the development and development of our societies. ATF grants the award in the belief that there are inventors in the Arab world, in recognition of the achiever and the definition of achievement, pride in the accomplished, and an investment in creative minds and energies.

From the launch of the Arab Creativity Award in 2007 until 2017, the Arab Thought Foundation had honored 74 winners for the Arab Creativity Award and 6 winners for the “Lifetime Achievement Award” in the special honor category from all Arab nationalities and age groups.

Vision

Pay tribute to ingenious Arab innovators and promising creative avant-gardists in order to promote their accomplishment and highlight the crucial role of state-of-the-art ideas and works in the development and progress of our societies.

Goals

  • Stimulate creativity and encourage competition among Arab innovators in the literature, economic, social, media and artistic fields.
  • Promote the culture of innovation in the Arab society and highlight its role in achieving development.
  • Honor innovators and promote their achievements.
Judging Committee

The Arab Thought foundation is committed to impartiality and transparency in judging the Arab Creativity Award, according to scientific and objective standards. The award is greatly reputed for high credibility due to the precise of candidature mechanism, the rigorous selection criteria, and the remarkable integrity of the judges.

The judges and coordinators are selected based on academic disciplines and scientific competence. The committees are periodically reconstituted taking into consideration the diversity of nationalities represented.

The committees convene to discuss the arbitral proceedings and the mechanism of refereeing the nominations confidentially based on the criteria set by the judges, which are structured in a model arbitrary guide that constitutes a methodological framework.

Criteria & Eligibility
The winner in each field will receive the award trophy and a certificate of appreciation, as well as a cash prize of $50,000 for the Most Valuable Book Award and $25,000 for the remaining fields.

Terms & Conditions

The candidate may apply individually or may be nominated by an authority or entity such as the Arab governmental and non-governmental organizations, academic and cultural institutions, media and economic institutions, research and studies centers, publishing houses and others.
The candidate should be:
- Alive
- Arab, whether an individual, a team or an institution

The candidate approves to participate in a number of media activities and interviews about the award throughout the Arab world.

Standards

Candidates should preferably be under 45 years of age and the nominated work should be related to Arab development issues and objectives, and should not have been awarded or recognized for more than four years.

Arab Thought Foundation shall not be responsible for the preservation of intellectual property rights and the original copies of the nominated works, nor shall it return any of the files submitted to the candidate. ATF also undertakes not to use files submitted for purposes other than the evaluation of the candidates.

Excluded Applications

Excluded from the nomination are university papers, as well as what belongs to the books directory, letters, universities curriculum, e-books, acts that violate public morality or incite hatred, racism or sectarianism, in addition to incomplete files.

The candidate approves to participate in a number of media activities and interviews about the award throughout the Arab world.