Archive · 19 Jan 2026
Indian Education Innovators Win at Don Norman Design Awards 2025
Three Indian organizations, EduWeave Foundation, Involve Learning Solutions, and Mantra4Change, won big at the Don Norman Design Awards 2025.
These awards celebrate projects that help communities by designing solutions with their input.
EduWeave worked on early childhood education in Raipur, Involve trained older students to teach younger ones, and Mantra4Change helped school leaders improve their schools.
These projects show that when communities are involved in designing solutions, big changes can happen.
The awards also highlight other Indian initiatives in education and public services.
The goal is to take these successful ideas and use them to improve schools all over India.
Three Indian organizations won the Don Norman Design Awards (DNDA) 2025 for their innovative education projects.
EduWeave Foundation's Gadhbo Bachpan project reached 62,400 children and increased 'school-ready' rates from 3.4% to 75.8%.
Involve Learning Solutions' peer-teaching model reaches over 7,000 schools and delivers 15% gains in foundational skills.
Mantra4Change's Samartha program achieved 85% leader participation and 98% student-club engagement.
The DNDA recognition aims to help Indian nonprofits present validated models to state governments and unlock new partnerships.
- Who
- EduWeave Foundation, Involve Learning Solutions, Mantra4Change, and other India-based initiatives
- What
- Winning the Don Norman Design Awards (DNDA) 2025 for their innovative education projects
- When
- Awarded in 2025, with the DNDA25 Summit held from Nov 19–21 in Singapore
- Where
- India, with the summit in Singapore
- Why
- For their community-led, humanity-centred design (HCD) approaches to education, aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals
Education Innovators
Government and Policy Makers
Design Approach
Education Innovators
Innovators emphasize community-led, humanity-centred design (HCD) and iterative prototyping to solve root causes and design with communities.
Government and Policy Makers
Government and policy makers may prioritize standardized, top-down approaches to education reform.
Scalability
Education Innovators
Innovators focus on low-cost, co-created interventions that can be adapted locally.
Government and Policy Makers
Government and policy makers may seek solutions that can be scaled uniformly across large populations.
- Organizations Recognized
- EduWeave Foundation, Involve Learning Solutions, Mantra4Change
- Award
- Don Norman Design Awards (DNDA) 2025
- DNDA Principles
- HCD+ principles: solving root causes, ecosystem thinking, iterative prototyping, designing with communities
- EduWeave Foundation's Impact
- Reached 62,400 children, increased 'school-ready' children from 3.4% to 75.8%
- Involve Learning Solutions' Reach
- Over 7,000 schools, ≈1 million children, 15% gains in foundational skills
- Mantra4Change's Impact
- 85% leader participation in Learning Circles, student-club engagement rose from 83% to 98%
- DNDA25 Summit
- Singapore, Nov 19–21
- Shikshagraha Movement
- Aims to improve India's one million public schools through contextual micro-improvements