Smart Campus, Smart Solutions: HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023

Now in its 8th year, the HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023 (“the Competition”), organized by the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), continues to embody its core values by constantly innovating and reaching new heights. This year, we introduced a fresh theme: Smart Campus, inviting students to enhance their campus experience by integrating smart technologies with physical infrastructure for improved services, decision-making, sustainability, and more. On March 30, 2023, the Pitching Competition and Awards Presentation Ceremony concluded, featuring 12 student teams presenting to an esteemed judging panel and winning cash prizes, honors, and the opportunity to bring their innovative ideas to life on the HSUHK campus.

 

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HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023 – Workshop Series #2: Knowledge Hub: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) collaborated with The Institute for Youth Sustainability Leadership (IYSL) to organise an informative and interactive workshop – Knowledge Hub: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as part of the skill-based workshop series of The HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023 on 23 February. The workshop aimed to educate and empower students on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations, providing them with a platform to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. The workshop empowered students to develop innovative solutions to global challenges and showcased the potential of young minds to address the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023 – Workshop Series #3: Clarity & Effectiveness: How to Generate a Winning Proposal

To gear our students up for their HSUHK Innovation Competition 2023 (Theme: Smart Campus) proposal, the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Section of the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invited Ms Sharon TANG, Senior Project Officer, Fullness Social Enterprises Society, to deliver a workshop with the theme “Clarity & Effectiveness: How to Generate a Winning Proposal” on 2 March 2023. The workshop was attended by about 50 students participating in our Innovation Competition and also many others who were here to hone their proposal writing skills to increase their chances of securing investment or business opportunities.

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HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023 – Talk Series #2: Entering a New Era of Smart Campus

With the leading theme of Smart Campus in the HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023, the CTL was honoured to have the senior management from our University to keep our students informed and updated with the development and future directions in the areas of Campus Development and Management, and Information Technology (IT). Ir. Lin Chun-ming, Kelvin, Director of Campus Development and Management, first focussed on the various needs and expectations on campus services as HSUHK develops.

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HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023 – Talk Series #1: Tips and Tricks to Stand Your Proposal Out!

For the eighth time in the Academic Year 2022/23, the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) launched the annual student-oriented event, The HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2023 (hereafter “the Competition”)! With the strategic partners of the Institute of Youth Sustainability (IYSL) and the Wu Jieh Yee Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WUCIE), the Competition aims to promote to our HSUHK students a culture of innovation and creativity and to raise the awareness of critical social issues locally or globally.

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TEDxHSUHK 2022: Our Times

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.

Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, could not have penned an even more fitting saying to describe the whole world’s times, since the global pandemic starting in late 2019. However, nothing could have deterred TEDxHSUHK from spreading worthwhile ideas to both the HSUHK and the whole community. In fact, it was exactly against such a challenging backdrop was our 2022 theme nurtured: Our Times. 

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CTL successfully organised the HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2022!

The HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2022 (“the Competition”) reached a new height, with its Pitching Competition and Awards Presentation Ceremony successfully organised on 3 March. Marching into its 7th year, the Competition is aimed at stimulating our students’ innovativeness through their original proposals.
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HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2022 – Talk Series

Part of the HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2022, the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) successfully organised three theme-based talks on three consecutive Thursdays in November 2021, enlightening over 150 students so that they could see the application of innovation to social issues around us in a whole new light. 

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HSUHK Teaching Excellence Awards Sharing Seminar III (2020/21)

The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) wrapped the HSUHK Teaching Excellence Awards Sharing Seminar Series (2020/21) up on 8 April 2021 (Thursday), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m., at D603.

The Sharing Seminar III, titled “Service-Learning for Individuals, Society and Translation”, focused on the pedagogy of Service-Learning, an initiative at the University in early 2019. Ms Maggie Wong, the recipient of the HSUHK Teaching Excellence Awards 2019/20, partnered with Dr Siu Sai-cheong, our invited guest speaker, for an illustration of their valuable experience in teaching with Service-Learning. Here are their topics:

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