KE Spotlight - Community Engagement - HKU Knowledge Exchange

HKU Faculty of Medicine offers first-aid training to domestic helpers

Bringing emergency medicine to the community, HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine and medical students organised talks and workshops on first aid for 300 domestic helpers. The purpose is to empower them with basic life support skills, namely bystander CPR and choking management, for the elderly. According to a local study, the mean age of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients in Hong Kong was 71.5 years and 66% of cases happened at home. Dr Fan Kit-ling, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Unit, said that each one minute of delayed rescue would lower the survival rate by 7%-10% in case of a cardiac arrest. If CPR is performed immediately, the chance of survival will increase by two to three times.

New website launched to help students with mathematics difficulties: Maths Buddy

The Maths Buddy website, jointly developed by Dr Sandra Tsang Kit Man of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, and Dr Ida Mok Ah Chee of the Faculty of Education, focuses on helping children with mathematics difficulties at primary school level. The resources include an introduction, tools for learning mathematics, suggested games and stories of hope shared by a doctor and his family of a child with dyslexia and math difficulties. The tools and experience shared by the family may be helpful to other children with dyscalculia, math difficulties associated with dyslexia / attention-deficit disorders / other special educational needs. This website project was supported by the HKU Knowledge Exchange funding.

HKU Students join the "Cyberport University Partnership Programme"

The University of Hong Kong has six teams selected to join the "Cyberport University Partnership Programme" (CUPP) organized by Cyberport Management Company Limited (Cyberport), in collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), with a focus on financial technology (FinTech). The programme offers a unique opportunity for students of local universities to unlock their potential, gain insights into the global market, and receive world-class training through a customized boot camp and mentorship in Hong Kong and overseas. All teams will join a free one-week CUPP Entrepreneurship Boot Camp at Stanford GSB in late September 2015. The boot camp will include lectures, case studies, group work, guest speaker sessions, personal coaching and pitch training.

All teams will present their ideas and business models on the Demo Day during the Global Entrepreneurship Week China – Hong Kong at Cyberport in November 2015. A distinguished panel of judges will select the most outstanding teams, which will each be awarded a cash prize of HK$100,000 and shortlisted to join Cyberport Incubation Programme interview.

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2015

The Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards were introduced in 2011 in order to recognize each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organizations. Results of the 2015 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

HKU wins the Inaugural Louis Vuitton Supply Chain University Contest

"Team HKG", represented by the students of the HKU Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Business and Economics won the inaugural Louis Vuitton Supply Chain University Contest held earlier with its design on logistics distribution strategy. Students from six top universities in Europe, North America and Asia participated in the contest.

HKU Faculty of Engineering creates innovative “imseCAVE” - a high performance, low cost, virtual environment for industrial applications and training

The HKU Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering has created the imseCAVE – an immersive virtual environment – through the integration and innovative customization of state-of-the-art engineering and technologies including virtual and augmented reality, sensor network, distributed computing, big-data processing and management. The device can be readily applied in industrial, commercial and non-commercial use with high mobility. It has been deployed in the simulation of very large and complex logistics systems. It was used to develop virtual reality-empowered training systems and programmes for ramp operations in Cathay Pacific Services Limited. Experiments can be performed on the virtual simulation systems whereby operational and design parameters can be investigated in a safe and controlled environment.

Student KE Projects 2014/15

The Student KE Project Grant Scheme was introduced in 2011/12 under the KE Funding Exercise. It aims to promote a student culture of contributing to society through applying their knowledge gained at HKU; to nurture the spirit of innovation among students; and to promote the development of engagement projects between students of the University and external organizations. Since 2014/15, the student KE project grants are administered under the Service 100 Fund of the Centre of Development and Resources for Students (CEDARS).