The Review 2016

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE Cyberport University Partnership Programme Entrepreneurship was also promoted through the Cyberport University Partnership Programme, in which four teams of HKU undergraduates joined 16 teams from other Hong Kong universities for a one-week entrepreneurship programme at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. On their return, they participated in a pitch competition at Cyberport and the top 10 teams – including all four HKU teams – received $100,000 each from the Cyberport Creative Micro Fund for their start-ups. KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE EXCELLENCE AWARD A project that assesses children’s age through dental assessment – and thus helps to provide them with an identity for education, medical treatment and other purposes – has won HKU’s inaugural Knowledge Exchange Excellence Award. The service is crucial in places where there are many unregistered births and has already been promoted to 500 families and used to help about 150 undocumented children in rural India. The team, led by Dr Wong Hai-ming in the Faculty of Dentistry, has also trained dentists in India and Hong Kong in dental age assessment and shared their knowledge with teachers in primary schools and orphanages in Guangxi province. They have also established a charity, the DOB (Date of Birth) Foundation, the first of its kind in the world. 38 KE Funding 70 projects Æ The University provided funding support to nine interdisciplinary knowledge exchange projects (under a one-off grant) and 61 other projects in 2015–16. The interdisciplinary projects, which encourage cross-faculty collaboration, include: • A look at the contributions of historic lighthouses to Hong Kong’s role as a strategic port, by scholars in Architecture and Arts. The output will be disseminated to secondary schools, tourism practitioners, policy-makers and others. • ‘Sounding Architecture’, also by Architecture and Arts scholars, to design and produce new musical instruments in collaboration with several performing arts organisations. • An investigation by Arts and Medicine scholars to assess and improve genetic literacy among patients / clients who have genetic disorders and are about to decide on genetic testing. • A financial education programme for junior secondary-school students, involving the Business and Economics and Education faculties. • A programme to promote oral health and speech-language development among kindergarten children, by scholars in the Dentistry and Education faculties. • A simplified testing protocol to determine if oysters are safe to eat, being developed by the Science and Engineering faculties for dissemination to Hong Kong oyster farmers. • A programme to cultivate compassion in adolescents, by scholars in Social Sciences and Medicine. • Capturing and sharing the memories of everyday life and the use of space at Wah Fu Estate, by Social Sciences and Architecture. • A programme to encourage students in primary and secondary schools and the public to explore their attitudes and knowledge about non-human vertebrates and insects in Hong Kong, by scholars in Social Sciences and Science. Getting a Start 13 start-ups Æ $4 million was awarded to 13 HKU start-ups in the third round of the government-funded TSSSU@HKU. Public and Private Backing $205 million Æ HKU received $123 million in research funding from industry sources, and $82 million from the government’s Innovation and Technology Commission. Living the Dream 10 x $100k Æ The HKU DreamCatchers 100K competition launched in early 2016 provided $100,000 seed funding to each of 10 awarded teams. Online Visits 4.9 million visitors Æ The HKU Scholars Hub (hub.hku.hk/) , which helps users find an expert at the University, has raised the visibility of HKU researchers and their research and expertise. In 2015–16, there were more than 4.9 million view counts of the HKU Researcher Pages from outside the University. Dr Wong Hai-ming won a KE award for her project to help undocumented children in India by calculating their age through dental assessment.