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one million views by the end of June 2013. Partnerships are also part of KE at the institutional level. The University is keen to share its expertise with other educational and professional organisations in the region and globally, and to develop ties with them. In 2013, the Faculty of Law and the Journalism and Media Studies Centre jointly organised an international conference on Media Law and Policy in the Internet Age, which facilitated vibrant discussions of the complex issues concerning press freedom, public access to information and human rights. The participants included senior judges from the UK as well as legal and media professionals from Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Mainland China and Hong Kong. The University was also the first in Asia to host the IB World Student Conference, which attracted 150 secondary school students from around the world. HKU also organises local outreach programmes to secondary school students, such as the Academy for the Talented, which offers university-level courses to high-achievers. The Knowledge Exchange Fund is a competitive scheme that provides up to $100,000 for projects in the community. In 2012-13, 39 projects by faculty members were funded, including the conversion of roof spaces into landscapes for growing food and facilitating community interaction, and a capacity- building programme for migrant workers featuring sessions on workers' and women's rights, ICT education and other issues of interest. KE and the Student Student-initiated projects are also supported by the KE Fund. This started on a pilot basis in 2011-12 and was continued in 2012-13, when 18 projects were supported. Examples of student projects include curating an exhibition of high quality reproductions of artworks by Austrian artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, developing an app to advance psychological health in cancer patients, and implementing a screening project on speech sound development for local kindergarten children. These projects are not confined to Hong Kong. A holiday trip to a Cambodian orphanage inspired Cherry Zhang Yingying to found the Children's Health, Education and Environment Rescue Association with four fellow students. Their first project was a return visit to the Cambodian orphanage to perform health checks and improve sanitation, which won the 2012 Best Student and Youth Volunteering Project awarded by a Hong Kong government committee. Cherry, who has now completed her PhD studies at HKU, said: "As a student, we don't have a lot of money to donate, but we can share what we see, hear and experience, and be a bridge to tell more powerful people outside that there are children needing help here." In the Community Apart from the KE Office, faculties are also engaged in ongoing community and cultural exchanges, such as the University Artists Scheme and Summer Institute in the Faculty of Arts and continuing professional development and public lectures in the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine. In early 2013 the University and the Hong Kong Museum of Art organised A Night at the Museum of Art with Andy Warhol for 600 secondary- school students and teachers, which featured workshops on art and the integration of art and technology. HKU has a long held vision and determination to transfer and share knowledge of healthcare best practices and systems to the region. This year saw two noteworthy developments towards that goal. The HKU Shenzhen Hospital completed its first year of operation in July 2013. The hospital is providing world-class clinical care, research opportunities and continuing professional development for all categories of staff, and it has generated intense interest on the Mainland and internationally. The second development was the announcement in March 2013 that the Hong Kong government had given approval to build the Gleneagles Hospital, a private hospital at Wong Chuk Hang. The Faculty of Medicine is the sole clinical partner in this venture and will draw on teaching and research to benefit healthcare in the community. All of these initiatives are enabling HKU to harness its value in research and teaching, and use it to benefit the community in the broadest possible way. THE REVIEW 2013 ⎜ Knowledge Exchange A project that looks at the use of language by healthcare professionals during genetic counselling sessions with patients, on such things as Down's Syndrome, G6PD and Sudden Arrhythmia Syndrome, was one of the winners of the 2013 Faculty KE awards. Dr Olga Zayts (left) of the School of English is leading the project together with Dr Brian Chung, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine. They are conducting research and training with linguists from HK, the UK and the US and healthcare professionals from Hong Kong. Dr Zayts said: "We are trying to make medical professionals aware that the language they use can make a difference in helping patients to make an informed choice." Children aged below six fall outside the government's school-based dental programme, a situation that Dr Yang Yanqi and her students and colleagues in the Faculty of Dentistry are trying to address. Their Faculty KE Award-winning project teaches the importance of childhood oral healthcare and how to look after children's teeth to pregnant women, new parents of infants, and the caregivers and teachers of kindergarten children "We want to teach prevention so children can avoid problems in later life that may be painful or expensive to treat," Dr Yang said. Language in a Clinical Setting Protecting Baby Teeth The University of Hong Kong ⎜ 35