About - ARISE Excellence Awards

About the Awards

The ARISE Excellence Awards, launched in 2022, were established to recognize schools that have made significant contributions to education and community service, with a strong emphasis on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The inaugural edition honored schools across four categories—Quality Education, Reduced Inequalities, Climate Action, and Life on Land—highlighting their commitment to holistic and impactful education.

In 2023, the awards expanded to encompass a broader range of educational excellence, introducing categories such as Excellence in Promoting Entrepreneurship, Excellence in Experiential Learning, Excellence in Community Service, Outstanding Teacher Development, Excellence in Digital Transformation, and Excellence in Sports. This expansion reflected the evolving priorities of education and the need for schools to cultivate future-ready learners.

As we launch the 2025 edition, the ARISE Excellence Awards, organized in collaboration with FICCI, continue to celebrate schools that are setting benchmarks in innovation, holistic learning, and educational transformation. This year, the awards introduce new categories recognizing excellence in future-ready skills, creative expressions, global impact leadership, and the revival of India’s knowledge systems. Additionally, the awards acknowledge schools making meaningful contributions toward Sustainable Development Goals, including Good Health & Well-being (SDG 3), Clean Water & Sanitation (SDG 6), and Climate Action (SDG 13).

By recognizing top performers and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and development, the ARISE Excellence Awards act as a vital catalyst for excellence and innovation in India’s school education landscape.

About ARISE

ARISE (The Association for Reinventing School Education) is an autonomous body that brings together some of the country’s most progressive and intellectual minds including School Promoters, Edupreneurs & Leaders who remain committed and focused on serving as a beacon for change within the diverse and dynamic landscape of India’s school education system. Living up to the motto ‘Student First’, ARISE recognises the complexity and the unique challenges faced by both independent private schools and public / government schools and will continue to play an important role to be a collaborative platform to bring together forward-thinking school founders, educators, policy makers, think tanks, educationists, civil society experts and technical experts. As a collegium, ARISE represents over 1350 schools, 85,000 teachers and 1.4M students.

About FICCI

Etablished in 1927, FICCI is the largest and oldest apex business organisation in India. Its history is closely interwoven with India’s struggle for independence, its industrialization, and its emergence as one of the most rapidly growing global economies.

A non-government, not-for-profit organisation, FICCI is the voice of India’s business and industry. From influencing policy to encouraging debate, engaging with policy makers and civil society, FICCI articulates the views and concerns of industry. It serves its members from the Indian private and public corporate sectors and multinational companies, drawing its strength from diverse regional chambers of commerce and industry across states, reaching out to over 2,50,000 companies.

FICCI provides a platform for networking and consensus building within and across sectors and is the first port of call for Indian industry, policy makers and the international business community.