HundrED Global Collection 2026

Innovation in education can be defined as meaningful improvements to a new or modified practice and/or technology that supports any part of the educational ecosystem. Innovations are new, contextualised, positive improvements.  

What are we looking for?

We are looking for impactful and scalable solutions that are making a meaningful improvement to any part of the educational ecosystem. The innovation must already be implemented with its intended users for at least 1 year. 

What is the submission timeline? 

The application period for submissions to the 2026 Global Collection will be open from June 25, 2024 to May 1, 2025. Selected innovations will be notified in the summer of 2025 and the public release will be in the fall of 2025. 

How to apply?

Click “Submit innovation”. For more guidance on how to complete the application form, check out the submission guide. 

How is your innovation reviewed? 

We select innovations based on a standardised review process that includes external review from members of our HundrED Academy. We evaluate innovations based on two main criteria - impact and scalability. 

• Impact: Evaluated as a valuable improvement within the innovation’s context. All innovations must have at least 1 year of being implemented with its intended users. 
• Scalability: Either the innovation is actively expanding to other contexts or has a high degree of transferability for others to adopt its practice/technology.

For more information about how your innovation is reviewed, check out our page, HundrED Research. 

Who reviews your innovation? 

The HundrED Research Team reviews all innovations to compile a shortlist of innovations, after which our global, crowd-sourced Academy reviews the shortlisted innovations. Based on the Academy's reviews, HundrED Research curates the final list of 100 most impactful and scalable innovations for the annual Global Collection.

Interested in reviewing the innovations?

Are you passionate about innovation in education? Are you committed to enabling, enacting, and supporting innovations that make education more accessible, more equitable, and more excellent? If you are not submitting an innovation to the Global Collection call you can apply to become an innovation reviewer at our HundrED Academy.