The Zairi International Awards for Excellence in Higher Education launched in 2021 by CLICKS in collaboration with numerous international quality organizations and universities’ associations is a series of global institutional awards aiming at recognizing and celebrating higher education institutions that are addressing global educational challenges and creating sustainable impact within their own national and regional context through embracing excellence and innovation in specific areas pertinent to digital transformation, research impact, service to the community, internationalization, equity and inclusion, etc

• The Award is administered on an annual basis by the Center for Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS). Award recipients will be presented during the MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum organized in Dubai, UAE official opening ceremony or in a gala dinner in years where the forum is not running.
  
  
• The Award criteria and process is endorsed by key leading organizations form across the globe.
  
  
• The Award is an international award that recognizes excellence in best Higher Education Institutions around the world. It aims at highlighting inspiring success stories of higher education institutions and celebrate institutions that have developed and implemented creative responses to current and ongoing issues in the sector.
  
  
• The Award is open to all private and public HEIs around the world and aims at creating distinctive capabilities that drive achievement of outstanding performance.
  
  
• Submissions of HEIs should demonstrate what was unique about their institution and its achievements over the past 2-3 years and provide examples.