The Abu Dhabi government is making strong strides towards shaping young minds with the WED Innovation Lab
Abu Dhabi’s taking another step towards developing a brighter future.
The WED Innovation Lab activities have officially kicked off in the UAE capital, reflecting Abu Dhabi’s Early Childhood Development Strategy for 2035, bringing together global experts and partners to shape positive outcomes for the lives of young children in the emirate.
Called the World Early Childhood Development (WED) Movement, the aim is to tackle pressing futuristic challenges faced by Abu Dhabi and the world’s young children through human-centric and innovative outputs.
The event, running over five days until 26 January will immerse more than 30 leading local, regional and international cross-sectorial experts who will join forces together to problem define, ideate and prototype outcomes across the three interactive themes of WED: Intentional Parenting, Culture and Identity and Sustainable and Family-friendly Cities.
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The Innovation Lab proposes to open minds and hearts to the issues at hand while researching and developing solutions that can be applied in real world scenarios. Immersive and interactive, the Lab will see experts and advisers from global philanthropic organizations, government, NGOs, stakeholders and the private sector working with each other in orientation and trust-building, sensing techniques, visioning and creative prototyping, aimed not only at defining the problem, but also refining the process of ideating solutions and outputs, and kicking off the prototyping phase.
The five-day event is being hosted at Abu Dhabi’s iconic Yas Acres Golf and Country Club where participants will present their final ideation prototype pitches on the last of the Innovation Lab on 26 January to a high-profile judging panel.
They will then prioritize the most viable outputs for piloting and implementation that will take place from May to September ahead of the WED Forum in October, 2024.
Date
Until 26 January
Location
Yas Acres Golf and Country Club
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