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Inclusive Employment Market cum Exhibition 2023: Inclusive Education & Employment – Business and School Partnership Scheme – Award Presentation Ceremony and Idea Exchange Session
Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the Centre for Civil Society and Governance at The University of Hong Kong (the Centre) collaborates with four key NGO partners – CareER, Heep Hong Society, SAHK and St. James’ Settlement; and implements Jockey Club Collaborative Project for Inclusive Employment. The three-year Project aims at encouraging […]
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Knowledge Primer 6 – Realising Resource Circularity in Foodservice Industry
Dubbed as a world-famous food paradise, Hong Kong has a vibrant foodservice landscape. The vibrancy, however, comes with a huge amount of waste generated throughout the operations. Not only is it a waste of resources but also increases the operating cost. As part of the government’s strategy to achieve “#WasteReduction．#ResourcesCirculation．#ZeroLandfill”, both the forthcoming #municipalsolidwastechargingscheme and […]
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Revitalising Hong Kong’s Abandoned Villages – Mui Tsz Lam & Kop Tong
What makes a good rural stewardship? The Forest Village Programme is an action research project initiated by the Centre for Civil Society and Governance at HKU, with the aim of bringing Mui Tsz Lam and Kop Tong back to life. Adopting the revitalisation cluster as the scaling up strategy, the HKU team expands its effort […]
Award and Achievement
Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2023
The Centre’s Rural Revitalisation project has won the Faculty KE Awards 2023 with its impact on enhancing civil society’s capacity and readiness for sustainability attainment using Rural Revitalisation as the action domain. You may find out more about the Project and its impact with this link: https://www.ke.hku.hk/assets/doc/KEAward/2023/SocialSciences.pdf The Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards were introduced […]
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Knowledge Primer 5 – “Scaling Circularity through Transformative Technologies and Business Model Innovations”
You are cordially invited to the fifth Knowledge Primer (KP) titled “Scaling Circularity through Transformative Technologies and Business Model Innovation” under the “Partnership for Sustainability Leadership in Business” (PSLB) project, initiated by the Centre for Civil Society and Governance (CCSG) of HKU with support from The Hongkong Bank Foundation. Waste challenge has always been painstaking in Hong Kong. The […]
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E-launch of Partnership for Sustainability Leadership in Business
14:30 - 15:30
The Centre’s Policy for Sustainability Lab has organized the E-launch of Partnership for Sustainability Leadership in Business (PSLB)on November 6, 2020 (Friday). During the E-launch, 4 sustainable business leaders from SMEs shared their views on the topic “Thriving with a Sustainability Mindset in the Midst of Pandemic”, along with the first video screening featuring 9 distinguished guests’ wisdom on the theme “Partnership for Sustainability Leadership in Business: The Creation of Sustainable Value Chains”. Details of the event are as follows: Date: November 6, 2020 (Friday) Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Format: Online via Zoom Language: Cantonese Topic: “Thriving with a Sustainability Mindset in the Midst of Pandemic”
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Sharing Data Responsibly: Lessons from the Pandemic for the Future
Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) x Centre for Civil Society and Governance, HKU Joint Roundtable, Sponsored by Facebook Join the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) and the Centre for Civil Society and Governance (CCSG) at The University of Hong Kong for a virtual roundtable which will gather data privacy regulators, industry leaders, legal experts and members of civil society to discuss the role of data sharing in the post-COVID world. This roundtable will focus, in particular, on how we can strike an appropriate balance between data protection concerns and the need to share data for the benefit of society, the economy and the data ecosystem as a whole, especially in the APAC region.
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Building a Thriving Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
“Building a Thriving Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” is a signature public event for the Social Innovations for Sustainable Communities initiated by the Social Entrepreneurship and Civic Action Lab of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance at the University of Hong Kong. Co-organised with Ashoka, the world’s largest working community of more than 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs, the event will be first-of-its-kind in Hong Kong, featuring interactive dialogues between the incubators and social innovators facilitating spontaneous exchange of ideas on a sustainable social entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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Sustainability Hackathon
The Policy for Sustainability Lab of the Centre is pleased to launch its second Sustainability Hackathon in August 2020. It is a 4-day community incubation event to bring together a diverse range of community stakeholders to generate innovative ideas for improving rural-urban interactions in Hong Kong. Participants will propose innovative action plans, business models or product prototypes to solve real challenges in Hong Kong’s food system. Selected teams will be invited to pitch for the awards. For more details, please click here.
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Sustainable Solutions for Hong Kong’s Villages
Hong Kong is one of the world’s greatest cities. Less well-known is that there are also 600 villages in Hong Kong, mostly in the New Territories and outlying islands. Over the decades many have been abandoned or become rundown as villagers moved overseas and young people left to seek better jobs. One of the more established ones is Lai Chi Wo, a Hakka village in a remote valley in north-eastern New Territories, has still suffered from years of neglect after many villagers gave up farming and migrated to the UK in the 1950s. As part of an ongoing project through the Policy for Sustainability Lab under the Centre for Civil Society and Governance at the University of Hong Kong since 2013, a programme supported by HSBC, villagers are being encouraged to return to Lai Chi Wo to revitalise the village so that it will survive for future generations.
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Lai Chi Wo! Village Fest
Lai Chi Wo! Village Fest Visit Lai Chi Wo to experience the rich and joyful village life in this December! As part of the “HSBC Rural Sustainability” Programme, the “Lai Chi Wo! Village Fest” will be held in Lai Chi Wo on two consecutive weekends in December. The festival is jointly curated by local artists and Lai Chi Wo villagers offering a variety of creative and engaging activities. Participants would experience the vibrancy of the Hakka village through five senses and rediscover the joyful nature of sustainable rural life. Let’s pledge to support urban-rural symbiosis and live a sustainable lifestyle in the year ahead!
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Social Innovation for Sustainability
14:00 - 17:30
Social Innovation for Sustainability is the first public open event for the Social Innovations for Sustainable Communities initiated by the Social Entrepreneurship and Civic Action Lab of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance at The University of Hong Kong. We will share the findings from a territorial-wide survey on sustainability visions for Hong Kong 2030-2050, and knowledge and intent for social entrepreneurship. Our speakers will share their views on the roles and trends of social innovation in creating sustainable communities. Interactive discussion will highlight the entrepreneurial ecosystem from different perspectives.
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Rural Arts and Culture Discussion Forum
14:30 - 17:00
Rural communities are bearers of rich indigenous historical, cultural and social assets, but the inheritance of rural assets is threatened by urbanisation. Guests from the field of Arts and Culture are invited to share their insights on encouraging public access to these assets from four perspectives, namely music and songs, food culture, mixed-media art and films. They will also interact with the audience to explore ways for the sustainable inheritance of these valuable indigenous arts and culture. Participants of the Academy for Sustainable Communities’ public events will be invited to join the Sustainable Communities Fellowship Scheme as Fellows, and will be eligible to apply for the soon to be announced Rural in Action Start-up Scheme. Date & Time: 2:30-5:00pm, September 7, 2019 Venue: Xiang Hai Xuan Multi-purpose Hall, Nan Lian Garden, Diamond Hill, Kowloon Targets: All are welcome Programme: Click here Opening Performance: “Paddy Field of My Heart” children musical performed by Sha Tau Kok Central Primary School Speakers: Dr Stephen Cheung Head of Postgraduate Studies, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Topic: Hong Kong Traditional Hakka Folk SongsProfessor Sidney Cheung Professor of the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Topic: The World is Your Oyster Dr Chloe Lai Urban Diary curator Topic: Filming Rural Culture in Digital Age Ms Jaffa Lam Visual artist Topic: Lost and Found Culture/Memory through Art Language: Cantonese Fee: Free of charge Enquiry: 3917 4768 / [email protected] Registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=66514
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