KE Spotlight - Community Engagement - HKU Knowledge Exchange

HKU holds tours to promote water initiative

The Jockey Club-Water Initiative on Sustainability and Engagement programme launched the "My River, My Community" Scheme. It comprises the formulation of a series of professionally designed and guided field trips. Each itinerary, centred on one river basin, highlights its multiple dimensions such as ecological, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions. This Scheme will help enhance participants' knowledge of and emotional connections with our city's rivers. Apart from the "My River, My Community" WISE Choice field-trip routes, this scheme also recommends Eco-Tour and Cultural Tour to encourage the public to explore the unique natural beauty and cultural heritage of each river.

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2017

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 2017 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

HKU Sustainable Lai Chi Wo Programme selected the first HK case to illustrate best local nature-based solutions to sustainable development

The Equator Initiative of the United Nations Development Programme selected the Sustainable Lai Chi Wo programme, led by the Policy for Sustainability Lab of the HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, as the first and the only selected case from Hong Kong for inclusion in its Solutions Database to showcase the best nature-based solution to sustainable development undertaken by local communities around the globe. HKU President Professor Peter Mathieson announced the news at the International Symposium of Collaborative Governance for Rural Sustainability held at HKU. In addition, HSBC has pledged to support the next phase of the programme which seeks to turn Lai Chi Wo into an innovation hub to demonstrate and incubate new concepts of sustainable living and social-economic models that can be replicated locally and regionally.

HKU receives largest single donation to date from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust for the establishment of a Centre for Clinical Innovation and Discovery and an Institute of Cancer Care

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has pledged to donate $1.244 billion to HKU for the establishment of a Centre for Clinical Innovation and Discovery (CCID) and an Institute of Cancer Care (ICC) at Grantham Hospital (GH) by the Faculty of Medicine. This will be the largest single donation received by the University to date. The CCID and ICC will be the first purpose-built cancer-specific research and service centre in the city and serve as platforms for the translation of innovation and discoveries in science and in models of care for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation, and for the development of a new holistic cancer care paradigm for Hong Kong.

HKU survey reveals gaming addiction problem among Hong Kong upper primary students

The Social and Health Psychology Laboratory of the HKU Department of Psychology conducted a "Survey on the Gaming Habits among Hong Kong Upper Primary students" from March to May in 2017. A total of 2,006 Primary 4 to 6 students were surveyed. Results reveal that the problem of gaming addiction is prevalent among the students. The research team is concerned about the needs of children and parents, and so they built a Game Over Programme (GOP) website to provide information and downloadable resources for the prevention of gaming addiction. The website was kick-started on June 20 to provide background information about the project and will be fully launched in early August.

HKU graduates' start-up team develops new bone substitute

Novus, a start-up company formed by an HKU Faculty of Medicine PhD graduate with two fellow PhD students and a winning team of the HKU DreamCatchers 100K Entrepreneurship, developed a new bone substitute which can be applied in a variety of bone-related surgical procedures and will soon be tested in animal total hip replacement. The company will partner with CityU's School of Veterinary Medicine to sponsor NGO Paws Guardian free surgeries for stray dogs.

Global Youth Entrepreneurs Forum 2017 takes place at HKU

The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups and HKU DreamCatchers jointly organised a two-day Global Youth Entrepreneurs Forum 2017 attended by over 1,000 young entrepreneurs from 33 countries and regions around the world under the theme "WE THE FUTURE".