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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HSUHK Social Innovation Competition 2021 Pitching Competition and Awards Presentation

The 12 teams’ amazing pitching brought the HSUHK Social Innovation Competition 2021 to a successful completion!

Our 31 participating students are all winners here. They, together with over a thousand students, enriched themselves through our 7 theme-based and skill-based workshops, from November 2020 to February 2021. All took home valuable insights on the development of the three targeted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, Goals 3, 11 and 12), the essence of social innovation, research techniques, proposal writing and pitching skills.

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