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Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2023

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations. Results of the 2023 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

Discover HKU Startups at DreamOn 2023 - HKU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day

Join us at HKU on 5 June 2023 to celebrate post-COVID resurgence and our innovators' latest achievements! The annual event features keynote speech from former HKEX CEO Charles Li, panel discussions by elite entrepreneurs, and start-up exhibition and investment pitching sessions.

“Hong Kong Education and Future Learning” Knowledge Fair – Let’s Make an Impact Together

Faculty of Education, HKU is organising the “Hong Kong Education and Future Learning” Knowledge Fair – Let’s Make an Impact Together on March 4, 2023 (Saturday) to share with the industry and stakeholders our research implications, so as to plan for future learning together.

KE Excellence Award, HKU Innovator Award and HKU Young Innovator Award 2022

The university-level KE Excellence Award was introduced in 2015-16 to recognise the significant impact that our academic staff had made to benefit society. The KE Excellence Award 2022 was awarded to Dr Guojun He of the HKU Business School.

The HKU Innovator Award and the HKU Young Innovator Award were introduced in 2020-21 to recognise outstanding Faculty members whose innovations demonstrate exceptionally high potential impact (legacy or projected legacy) with transformative results to foster development. The HKU Innovator Award and the HKU Young Innovator Award were awarded to Professor Mingxin Huang of the Faculty of Engineering and Dr Shuofeng Yuan, of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine respectively.

Knowledge Exchange Video Series to Share Practical Parenting Tips (Primary Schools)

The mode of teaching and learning in Hong Kong has undergone a drastic change during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents and children have been facing various challenges. Parents are playing a more important role in children’s learning under the New Normal. To this end, HKU Faculty of Education has launched the “Knowledge Exchange Video Series (Primary School Series)”, in which our Faculty teachers share practical tips and skills with parents and teachers to help children learn easily and boost parent-children interaction time in an interesting and simple way.

Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2022

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations. Results of the 2022 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

Yearly KE Funding Scheme for Impact Projects

To encourage projects that have the potential to create significant impact, KEO has introduced the Strategic Impact scheme in 2022/23 to provide enhanced funding support for projects that fall under the following seven strategic themes. These strategic themes have been identified having regard to a survey on key global and regional research and KE trends, research prowess of HKU, and potential for contribution to HKU’s KE strategy.