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Welcome to Education Without Borders

EWB is a biennial international student conference that creates networks across cultures in order to understand, and generate solutions for, some of the world's greatest challenges.

The conference achieves this end by engaging the world's most innovative students and leaders in the business, technology, education and humanitarian sector in a collaborative forum that culminates in a commitment to action.

EWB 2011 proves a huge success in Its 10th Year – Bringing Students And Educators Together

In its 10th year, the 6th biennial conference Education Without Borders 2011 (EWB 2011), proved to be the biggest in the conference’s short history with a diverse range of students, mentors and ideas converging on the Dubai Men’s College campus for the 3-day international student conference. Under the theme of Innovative Solutions to Global Challenges …...

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A message from the EWB 2011 World Student Organizing Committee members

A message from the EWB 2011 World Student Organizing Committee members

To the delegates and attendees of the 2011 Education Without Borders conference. The Higher Colleges of Technology is honoured to have hosted the 6th biennial International Students’ Education Without Borders Conference in Dubai between 28th-31st March 2011,  which led to the culmination of over 130 nationalities and more than 1000 students working together to discuss and...

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Innovative Solutions to Global Challenges...Diverse Perspectives; Unified Action

Under the broad theme of Innovative Solutions to Global Challenges, several sub-themes have been identified which categorize methods that can be used to address these most urgent challenges of the world:

EWB 2011 Live Statistics

3700 Applicants; 700 Full papers submitted; 131 Nationalities

EWB 2011 Live Statistics
EWB 2011 Mentors

As part of EWB 2011 the HCT will host many accomplished world leaders as well as rising stars from the fields of academia, business, government, sports, science, culture, media and the like to mentor and inspire the young students from around the world, and of many different nationalities and higher education institutions. Here are just some of those inspiring mentors:


Rt Hon Raila Odinga

Prime Minister, Republic of Kenya

Rt Hon Tony Blair

Quartet Representative to the Middle East & Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation

H.E. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

Former President,
Sri Lanka

Alain Robert

Rock and skyscraper climber/speaker,
France

Prof. Albert Fert

Nobel Laureate 2007 - Physics,
France

Dame Marjorie Scardino

Chief Executive,
Pearson,
UK

Dr Walter E. Massey

President,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
USA

Yolanda Kakabadse

President
WWF International

Marsha Ivins

Astronaut, Ret.,
USA

Dr Mark J. Plotkin

President of the Amazon Conservation Team,
USA

Mireille Guiliano

Author,
France/USA

Dr Hans Rosling

Director, Gapminder Foundation,
Sweden

On behalf of the students of the world we would like to thank our partners for their support of Education Without Borders and their continued support for the Higher Colleges of Technology.

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