Project Highlights

Riding on the science and know-how of cultivating edible mushroom, the team grew mushroom with disposed coffee grounds from student cafes as nutritional supplements. They practised sustainability in food and environment through the food system with a holistic approach including an educational model for secondary schools to further adopt, as wll as a collaboration model between educaiton, business, and charity entities.

Coordinating Leader: Prof KWAN Hoi Shan (School of Life Sciences)

The team aims to transfer their knowledge on clinical psychology and marketing to develop and disseminate an e-mental health portal in Hong Kong. The portal includes evidence-based information, treatment options and treatment decision aids, screening for early detection, guided local mental healthcare pathways, self-help interventions and peer support network.

Project Leader: Prof HO Yan Yee Fiona (Department of Psychology)

Transnational social movements have shaped minority women’s perceptions towards gender equality. However the lack of space for them to learn about gender issues in the local context and the capacity to speak out have subsequently created some stereotypes against minority women by the general public. This in turn has hindered minority women’s social integration into Hong Kong society. Through gender equality trainings and liaising with local ethnic minority women’s groups, this project seeks to empower minority Muslim young women to articulate gender equality ideas and combat stereotypes against minority women.

Project Leader: Prof Raees Begum BAIG (Department of Social Work)

ARIA-Stroke Risk is a health promotion tool that is non-invasive, convenient, fast, and less labour intensive which has been widely used in community settings (i.e. NGOs, health check centre, optometric centres and health promotion centres). This tool is environmental friendly as it does not involve any blood samples or body fluids wastes. Users can obtain the risk assessment results in 2-3 minutes after retinal images are uploaded to the system. This real-time risk assessment tool can be served as “wake up” calls to one’s healthy lifestyle promotion plan.

Project Leader: Prof ZEE Chung Ying Benny (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

Digital health is the novel research methodology to visualize cognitive behaviour. The team has developed a digital platform for dementia screening. This project is to promote acceptance of digital screening for dementia. Regulars talks are given to the healthcare workers to explain the mechanism of digital screening.

Project Leader: Prof TSOI Kam Fai Kelvin (Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre)

Weaknesses in oral motor muscles are common in elders, which is a major contributor to swallowing and speech problem. By proper training, the oral motor muscles could be strengthened. In order to promote the oral exercises training in elders, a software for smartphone, named ‘Oral Easy 「口肌健」’ is being developed.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Yuet Sheung Kathy (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery)

Speech sound disorders (SSDs) is one of the common communication problems in children. Apart from giving severity, SSDs can be classified into types according to the causes. This project aims to provide speech therapy services to children with a type of SSDs which relates to speech motor abilities, and to train speech therapists in implementing the newly proposed assessment protocol and evidence-based treatment programme.

Project Leader: Prof TONG Chi Fai Michael (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery)

HPV, causing genital warts and penile/anal cancers, is prevalent among local mem who have sex with men (MSM). HPV vaccination is recommended but underutilized prevention strategy. The team developed an online intervention promoting HPV vaccination which is well accepted by local MSM. They are implementing it among MSM aged ≤ 45 years seeking HIV testing and counselling in NGO settings in collaboration with a major NGO and a gay-friendly private clinic.

Project Leader: Prof WANG Zixin Johnson (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

The rising prevalence of young onset diabetes before the age of 40 affects one in five people with diabetes in Hong Kong. This project aims to arouse the awareness and to educate the public for early diagnosis of young onset diabetes and its risk factors to prevent fatal complications using the Risk Understanding By Yourself (RUBY) for Diabetes and its Complications mobile app.

Project Leader: Prof CHAN Chung Ngor Juliana (Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity)

In Hong Kong, there are 7% babies born preterm every year but support for preterm infants and their families are limited. This project aims to establish an online, easily accessible, sustainable and up-to-date parenting programme for families with children born preterm.

Project Leader: Dr LAM Hugh Simon Hung San (Department of Paediatrics)

Stroke-induced disability and the elderly becomes a major issue nowadays with the ageing population. Role of rehabilitation becomes dominant in enhancing patients' quality of life (QOL). A stroke rehabilitation training with a personalized, affordable, multi-functional 3D-printed soft robotic hand is being developed to facilitate better hand function recovery to enable them to reintegrate to the society with better activities of daily living (ADL).

Project Leader: Prof TONG Kai Yu Raymond (Department of Biomedical Engineering)

This project provides holistic intercultural education for ethnic and Chinese communities in Hong Kong, in the cognitive, affective, and social domains. Women of different ethnic backgrounds co-produce cross-cultural knowledge and positive intercultural experience through neighbourhood projects, thereby creating long term community innovation and self-sustained empowerment.

Project Leader: Prof TAM Siu Mi Maria (Department of Anthropology)

Recognising the utilization of antimicrobial medicines is paramount for prevention of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). BASIC aims to nurture secondary and university students to set good examples and join hands with healthcare professionals to conduct health promotion and raising the awareness of AMR in the community.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Wing Yan Vivian (School of Pharmacy)

The project aims to assess preschool children's vocabulary in Cantonese and English and their word processing rate. We identify at-risk children with language delay and difficulty in learning language among those from low SES backgrounds. An intervention program provides enriched input and opportunities to have interactive learning in contexts. Age-appropriate word learning and an interactive mobile app is being developed.

Project Leader: Prof YIP Choy Yin Virginia (Department of Linguistics)

Children with autism often have psychological and behavioural problems, which cause difficulties in managing emotions, learning, and establishing relationships. This project aims to reduce these difficulties by implementing a six-month TCM paediatric massage program (小兒推拿) and assisting caregivers to provide children with daily home basis massage therapy.

Project Leader: Prof SO Wing Chee Catherine (Department of Educational Psychology)

Faecal incontinence (FI) is the involuntary loss of gas, liquid or solid stool per rectum. It is personally and socially incapacitating and only a half of sufferers will volunteer their symptoms spontaneously if not asked directly. With evidence-based and multi-disciplinary health promotion, this project aims to identify patients with FI and help to improve their functional capacity and quality of life via conservative management.

Project Leader: Prof MAK Wing Chung Tony (Department of Surgery)

The project aims to promote active behaviour of children with development coordination disorder (DCD). A series of community-based activities, along with educational materials, are provided to foster motor skills proficiency and hence the well-being of the targeted children and, to equip parents and educators with evidence-based knowledge and necessary support.

Project Leader: Prof SIT Hui Ping Cindy (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

Debates on social policy and law related to sexual orientation and gender identity are often overshadowed by emotional debates in Hong Kong rather than based on social scientific empirical evidence. This project seeks to address this by using diverse ways to disseminate the research conducted about sexual orientation and gender identity. Currently such scientific findings are inaccessible to beneficiaries because of the boring write-up. By employing different ways of presentation such as policy brief, infographics, video etc via an interactive website, pamphlets and presentation files, the project engages the general public with evidence base for debates on social policy and law related to sexual orientation and gender identity in an accessible manner.

Project Leader: Prof SUEN Yiu Tung (Gender Studies Programme)

Hong Kong’s northwestern coastal wetland area is facing a threat resulting from the decline of freshwater fishing industry, which might cause the loss of both traditional occupation and environment balancing conservation and community lifestyles.  This project aims at enhancing the awareness of this unique coastal wetland resource through nature-based tourism.

Coordinating Leader: Prof Sidney CHEUNG (Department of Anthropology)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof Peter CHEUNG (School of Life Sciences);
Prof Eliza TSE (School of Hotel and Tourism Management)

Project website: http://wetland.zone.etvonline.tv

The project aims to set up a web-based resource hub to support information and resource needs of welfare service organizations in tackling issues of user involvement in service management.  A seminar for launching the resource hub and sharing of local best practices will be held at the end of the project.

Project Leader: Prof Terry LEUNG (Department of Social Work)

Project website: http://user-involvement.com.hk

To teach and motivate users of the general public to do regular exercise.  By utilizing the web and SMS messages on the mobile phone, professional knowledge, advice, personalized exercise prescription, and motivational strategies are provided via an online interactive program, together with health-fitness assessment and diet analysis.  The project has the potential of reducing the inactive population and health cost, and being modified to suit the needs of children, the elderly and patients with chronic diseases.

Project Leader: Prof Stanley HUI (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

Project website: http://www.vt.hk/

In response to the current Nutrition Labelling Scheme which assists consumers to make informed food choice, encourage food manufactures to apply sound nutrition principles in the formulation of foods and regulate misleading or deceptive labels, the project aims to develop the 1st Hong Kong nutrients application which features commonly used food ingredients and products that are unique in Hong Kong such as rice noodles, Chinese sausage etc. The application will be a platform to promote and motivate users of the general public to choose foods that are beneficial to health such that their eating habits can be changed.

Project Leader: Prof KWAN Hoi Shan (Food Research Centre)

Business plan competitions like the Vice Chancellor’s Cup of Student Entrepreneurship offer a practical way to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among students and faculty.  The VC Cup is a good opportunity for students to present their plans to panels of venture capitalists, informal investors, entrepreneurs and business service providers.  It promotes interaction between academic and business communities.  There is also the future plan to engage the alumni network in mentoring, and linking student teams with partners and investors.

Project Leader: Prof Hugh THOMAS (Center for Entrepreneurship)

To promote the use of education resources in the China Digital Science and Technology Museum (CDSTM) to the general public, high school science teachers and students in Hong Kong.  CDSTM is a large-scale project organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to promote science education on a national scale.  The Science Faculty of CUHK had been invited by CDSTM to take part in its construction.  A series of seminars will be organized for general public interest and the teaching and learning of particular science subjects.  Hong Kong educators will gain access to high quality resources designed by experts all over China, which can be used to support the Science curriculum under the New Senior Secondary School Curriculum.

Project Leader: Dr TONG Shiu-sing (Centre for Promoting Science Education)

Project website: http://www.hk-phy.org/CDSTM/

The project aims to disseminate existing knowledge in tropical and sub-tropical climate regions, to accelerate the knowledge exchange and to educate the general public, the young students and the professionals how to use and apply the research information from their aspects.

Project Leader: Prof Edward NG (School of Architecture)

Project website:
http://www.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/server1/staff2/szewai/KT_web/en/intro.htm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Climate/124423517638114?ref=ts

UNEMIA – a project promoting “UNderstanding and EMbracing diversity with evidence-based Impact Assessment”. This social business facilitates inter-groups interactions by conducting social research for the academia and civil society. Apart from receiving a financial return, participants benefit from forming a long-term relationship with people of different backgrounds. The social goals are to promote mutual understanding; and to foster social cohesion.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Hung (Department of Social Work)

This project is to transfer nutrition knowledge by developing a website for public access. Although nutrition information can be found through various channels (television, magazines, internet, etc.), those resources are not always accurate and reliable. There are nutrition websites developed by professional organizations, but most of them are overseas organizations; thus the information on those websites may not be applicable for local use. Identifying reliable information can be difficult and confusing for general population. Therefore, developing a reliable website for free access will be beneficial to the public.

Project Leader: Ms Peggy YIP (School of Life Sciences)

The Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) will conduct Training-of-Trainers (ToTs) workshops with NGO workers in Sichuan and Guangxi provinces, China.  State-of-the-art knowledge and skills on evidence-based health and medical humanitarian response will be shared with field practitioners.  Participants will in turn cascade the acquired expertise and apply in the communities.

Project Leader: Prof Emily CHAN (School of Public Health and Primary Care)

Project website: http://www.ccouc.ox.ac.uhk/train-the-trainers-knowledge-transfer-workshop-in-yunnan-china

This project is to promote a sustainable urban development and healthy living, a series of public lectures, training workshops and community engagements will be conducted.  It aims at disseminating the advanced knowledge and recent findings to the general public and the professionals and enhancing the exchange and collaboration among scientists and practitioners.

Coordinating Leader: Prof REN Chao (School of Architecture)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof Edward NG (School of Architecture); Prof Emily CHAN (Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

Project website: http://www.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/server1/staff2/szewai/KT_web/en/intro.htm

With the establishment of the New Senior Secondary School (NSS) curriculum in Hong Kong with increased content in molecular biology and biotechnology, we propose to develop three concept acquisition packages for practical that can increase students’ motivation to learn molecular biology and establish a new model of pedagogy for teachers to teach biotechnology and molecular biology.

Project Leader: Prof KONG Siu Kai (School of Life Sciences)

Not even the minorities should fall out of our scope of care - “The Rights of Migrant Women Sex Workers in Hong Kong” project carried out by our Faculty of Law seeks to empower these women by informing them of their rights so as to increase the legal protection for them.

Project Leader: Prof Lisa YARWOOD (Faculty of Law)

Project website: http://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/news-and-events/news.php?events_id=207&cat_id=19

To produce and disseminate a standardized computer-assisted assessment tool of spoken word recognition ability in Cantonese, and hence to assist the clinical decision for assessing hearing impairment.

Coordinating Leader: Prof LEE Yuet Sheung Kathy (Institute of Human Communicative Research)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof LEE Tan (Department of Electronic Engineering)

Around the globe, deaf people are at a higher risk of sexual abuse and sexually-transmitted diseases due to limited access to sex education. This project promotes the healthy well-being of deaf people in Hong Kong by establishing a website that uses signs to present basic health knowledge related to sex.

Project Leader: Prof SZE Yim Binh Felix (Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages)

The project aims to revive The Eight Classic Cantonese Operatic Song Cycles through performance, sound recording, and publication of an introductory volume using archival resources held in the Music Department and collaborating with senior musicians in Hong Kong.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Tong Soon (Department of Music)

This project transfers the team’s ocular imaging and retinal research knowledge into an eye screening programme to identify individuals who need appropriate follow-up for eye and health problems. It also provides an important opportunity to educate the public about eye and health awareness through smartphone app, pamphlets and lectures.

Project Leader: Prof NG Siu Chun Danny (Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)

This project makes use of a Telephone-delivered Psycho-Educational program (TPEI) to help enhance the quality of life of dementia caregivers, who are indeed often known as the ‘secondary patients’. It introduces ways to handle and prevent caregiving difficulties, to meliorate the relationship between caregivers and care recipients through bringing in different communication skills, and the need for care planning. It also aims at improving the wellbeing of caregivers through showing tips to handle and prevent emotional distress.

Project Leader: Prof Timothy KWOK (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)

Project website: http://www.jccpa.org.hk/tc/centre_activities/past_activities/2012/index.php

The Asia-Pacific region is known to have a high frequency of natural disasters and a high level of population living in absolute poverty.  The project aims to transfer evidence based public health technical “know-how” at the field level to community based practitioners of relief actions and to support field-based program development.  It will serve as a technical platform for intellectual exchange and training, with offerings including training course, lecture series, student practicum and website.

Project Leader: Prof Emily CHAN (School of Public Health and Primary Care)

Project website: http://www.sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk/phhi

Based on the 4th Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change with hot summer is an inevitable future for the whole world. Nowadays more than half the world’s population is living in cities (UNFPA, 2009) and the number of cities and megacities is on the rise, especially in Asia, thus, the issue of urban climate and the relationship between cities and climate change has recently been a hot and important topic drawing wild attention.

Project Leader: Prof Edward NG (School of Architecture)

Project website:
http://www.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/server1/staff2/szewai/KT_web/en/intro.htm
https://www.facebook.com/sustainable.msc

This project aims to deliver a dementia care psychoeducation intervention to family carers of people living with dementia through a mobile application. Through this app, family carers can receive information about the illness, learn caregiving skills through podcasts and videos, monitor their psychological wellbeing, and keep a caregiving diary. It’s a replication of a study conducted by an interdisciplinary team from Singapore and Australia. The materials in this mobile app will be translated and adapted into Chinese and context to enable knowledge transfer to Hong Kong society.

Project Leader: Prof CHAN Yue Lai Helen (The Nethersole School of Nursing)

This project aims to stretch the educational potential of Music Department’s resources in terms of academic excellence and material collection to its fullest. It involves 2 parts - one is to publish CD with a booklet presenting extensive research findings on historical instruments and the other is to hold two music performances (including the new CUHK Guqin Collection & Alumni) which were supported with academic research made on historical instruments from the department collection.

Project Leader: Prof TSAI Tsan Huang (Department of Music)

Social integration is a two-way street of power relationship. This project aims at 1) acculturation: empowering the migrant workers through understanding Hong Kong culture, society, ordinances and language (Cantonese); 2) integration: promoting and enriching intercultural communication between migrant workers and secondary students through a series of workshops and activities for an inter-school competition of project learning on migrant workers in Hong Kong.

Project Leader: Prof HUANG Weishan (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies)

Addressing to the neglect of local ancient history amongst Hong Kong people, this project aims at providing a platform for the general public, students, tourists and scholars from all around the world to learn about the local ancient culture so as to raise the local people’s interest in tracing Hong Kong’s historical, to establish their own identities and bonds with China and increase the coherence of the society. 

The above ideas will be reinforced through creating a website, a series of workshop designed for school teachers, public guest talks, root searching exhibitions and distribution of booklets.

Project Leader: Prof TANG Chung (Department of History)

Project website:
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/ccaa/en/relic.htm
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/ccaa/en/exhibition.html

As the global economy grows, the economic and related logistics activities have continued to consume our natural resources and leave carbon footprints to the environment. To sustain economic activities without adding burden to environment, real-time tracking technology plays an important role of reducing wastage and enhancing productivity in logistics. This project is to conduct pilot run of real-time tracking technology at user’s end to demonstrate the full capacity of RF10 technology.

Project Leader: Prof WU Ke Li (Department of Electronic Engineering)

To develop a user-friendly webpage interface and a continuously upgrading database of specialized plant photos and bioinformatics which include medicinal herbs, nutritive food plants, leisure tree species, rare species and toxic plants.

Project Leader: Prof LAU Tai Wai David (School of Life Sciences)

Many young employees with secondary education only have great difficulties in adapting to work environment.  Based on the knowledge and experiences of career counseling we accumulated for Hong Kong people, this project develops a self-learning video for young people to have understanding on the requirements to be an acceptable employee.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Chi-Sum (Department of Management)

Children with autism have difficulties in communicating what they need, leading to frustration and challenging and self-injurious behaviours. This project aims to reduce their challenging behaviors by using social robot to teach them relevant gestures to express their needs. Ultimately, it improves their physical health, and creates an inclusive environment.

Project Leader: Prof SO Wing Chee (Department of Educational Psychology)

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have deficits in social competence, leading to impairments in social interactions and performance on social tasks. Through robot drama therapy, their project aims to remediate social challenges of young children with ASD by equipping them with social skills before they enter mainstream primary schools.

Project Leader: Prof SO Wing Chee Catherine (Department of Educational Psychology)

The project aims to increase public awareness of the ageing population with cultural approaches through representations of Hong Kong elderly and ageing-in-place in voices, photos and objects by an exhibition, to reconstruct the social meaning of elderly in our society.  There will be talks and training workshops for staff of NGOs and elderly to introduce the cultural approaches and invite elderly participation.

Coordinating Leader: Prof WONG Wai Ching Angela (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof FUNG Hoi Lam Helene (Department of Psychology); Prof LEUNG Yuk Ki (Department of Social Work)

Tenants of sub-divided housing units (SDHU) are vulnerable to any unreasonable rental increase as they are normally the lowest income group, but there is no market rental information available. This project aims to construct a quarterly rental index of Tenants of sub-divided housing units in Hong Kong, and organize activities for the public to understand its situation.

Project Leader: Prof YIU Chung Yim (Department of Geography and Resource Management)

This outreach project aims to cultivate a sense of belonging in Sai Ying Pun’s community at a time of significant infrastructure development.  Student-ambassadors from King’s College will conduct interviews and create videos about community life there, using public screenings, exhibitions and social media to encourage community engagement in urban planning.

Coordinating Leader: Prof Hendrik TIEBEN (School of Architecture)
Project Collaborator: Prof Anthony FUNG (School of Journalism and Communication)

Project website: http://www.magiccarpet.hk

Loneliness, a psychological state that adversely impacts on physical and psychological health, is prevalent among older adults in Hong Kong. We are conducting an intervention, based on our research findings that older adults are motivated to pursue meaningful goals, to rebuild social connections and reduce loneliness among older adults in the community.

Project Leader: Prof FUNG Hoi Lam Helene (Department of Psychology)

Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS) has been widely applied in different surgical subspecialties in past decade. The Chinese University of Hong Kong has been pioneering different CAS techniques in clinical management and various surgical specialties for improving patient care. The project aims to organize a one month education program with open lectures and exhibition to transfer the knowledge related to the research and development works / deliverables in CAS to the general public, in order to convey a positive and informative knowledge to the public.

Project Leader: Prof LEUNG Kwok Sui (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

Sarcopenia is the age-related loss of muscle mass, strength, and results in physical disability leading to fracture. Public sarcopenia awareness is poor and there is currently limited public health campaign. This program aims to deliver the message to the targeted individuals through easily assessable online educational video contents.

Project Leader: Prof CHOW Kwoon Ho Simon (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

Figures show 15% of elderly suffers from dementia in Hong Kong.  Current non-pharmaceutical treatments focus mainly on memory and attention with little work in communication interventions.  The current project aims to promote early identification and treatment of language and communication among elderly with dementia through public talks, workshops and trainings.

Project Leader: Prof Kathy LEE (Institute of Human Communicative Research)

Project website: http://www.ihcr.cuhk.edu.hk/events/activity.htm#2013a_Promotion_of_early_language

To promote the use of renewable energy, a mapping tool will be developed based on Google Earth for real-time estimation and mapping of solar radiation and solar energy on building surfaces to assist the setting up solar panels and solar water heaters in Hong Kong. This project aims at disseminating widely the knowledge about this tool to the local government, industry, educational institutions, and the public through various seminars, training workshops and development of a webpage, user manuals, and Facebook and Linked-in pages.

Project Leader: Prof HUANG Bo (Department of Geography and Resource Management)

This project aims to improve young children’s health-related behaviours by improving teachers’ and parents’ physical and health literacy. By providing talks to parents and measuring their children's motor skills, the project can increase the family health climate. By providing teacher workshops, the project also improves the teaching practices of pre-primary teachers.

Project Leader: Prof HA Sau Ching Amy (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

Culturally, men are often portrayed as being strong and tend not to discuss their health problems publicly, which may cause delay in medical treatment. To raise the awareness of men’s health and improve men’s health behaviour, the project adopts a new approach of knowledge via new media. As of 16 June 2011, there have been more than 1000 downloads of the i-Phone application which provides self-assessment tools for monitoring chronic health parameters. More than 90 people have joined the Facebook® page “Watch.man” for more support.

Project Leader: Prof NG Chi Fai (Department of Surgery)

Project website: http://www.watchman.hk

Evidence from systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials facilitate the development of integrative Chinese-Western healthcare models in an evidence-based manner. This project develops an open access database of critically appraised synopses plus educational outreach to healthcare professionals and the public to promote the uptake of evidence on the effectiveness and safety of Chinese and integrative medicine.

Project Leader: Prof ChUNG Chi Ho Vincent (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

To increase awareness regarding Internet addition (IA) among adolescents, through implementing a school-based primary prevention program, and a mentorship and adventure-based in-depth intervention program.

Coordinating Leader: Prof MO Kit Han Phoenix (Centre for Health Behaviours Research)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof LEUNG Wing Chi Louis (School of Journalism and Communication); Prof TSE Wai Shing Vincent (Department of Educational Psychology); Prof LAU Tak Fai Joseph (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care); Ms CHAN Wing Yan Virginia (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

"This project aims to disseminate information about stroke and improving life with aphasia. A series of talks and social group activities will be conducted among healthy elderly to raise awareness of stroke prevention. Workshops and treatment studies will be conducted to help stroke survivors, especially aphasia patients.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Ka Sing, Lawrence (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)"

This project aims to: 1) prepare people with chronic progressive disease and family carers with a better understanding about end-of-life care through an interactive webpage and educational talks; and 2) equip health professionals in the community care and volunteers with communication skills for initiating advance care planning through capacity building workshops.

Project Leader: Prof CHAN Yue Lai Helen (The Nethersole School of Nursing)

Insomnia affects 12-40% of the Hong Kong population and is associated with highly detrimental impact on one’s health and functioning. The project aims at empowering the general public to cope with insomnia with cognitive-behavioral strategies and complementary and alternative therapies. The project includes an online system called “SWEET DREAMS” which provides a self-test on severity of insomnia and updated information about how to implement cognitive-behavioral strategies. A series of train-the-trainer workshops will also be included to empower health and social care workers in community elderly centers to use cognitive behavioral strategies and auricular therapy to help older people to cope with insomnia.

Project Leader: Prof Doris YU (The Nethersole School of Nursing)

Project website: http://sweetdream.nur.cuhk.edu.hk

This project aims at developing a complete set of illuminating eukaryotic organelles for training and updating the most advanced concepts of Cell Biology for high school Biology teachers and students.

Project Leader: Prof JIANG Liwen (School of Life Sciences)

Project website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/centre/ccdb/ktpf

The program aims to launch a series of awareness and outreach programs where a team of experienced nurses and health care assistants will use validated risk assessment tools including published risk scores, simple clinical measurements, point of care tests (e.g. blood glucose, blood cholesterol, glycated haemoglobin) and novel technology to detect subjects with undiagnosed or untreated risk factors.

Project Leader: Prof Juliana CHAN (Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity)

Project website: http://opal.adf.org.hk

This project aims at transferring knowledge of 18 years’ of findings of sign linguistics research to the local community, through developing a public education program, to address the long-standing misconceptions involving sign language in deaf education, language rehabilitation, deaf social welfare and Hearing-Deaf communication by means of conducting seminars, workshops, creating a website, educational leaflets, newspaper articles, interactive DvD, and a Smartphone application.

Project Leader: Prof Gladys TANG (Department of Linguistics & Modern Languages)

Project website:
http://www.cslds.org/cehksl
http://www.facebook.com/cehksl

A program that brings together the synergy of psychologists, social workers and urban planners to convey key local stakeholders the importance of the environment in fostering individual well-being and cohesive families, key components in the building of sustainable communities that allow people to live a life of dignity.

Coordinating Leader: Prof NG Mee Kam (Department of Geography and Resource Management)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof MAK Wing Sze Winnie (Department of Psychology); Prof WONG Oi Ling (Department of Social Work)

A series of workshops will be provided for high school teachers in Hong Kong to have access to the latest scholarly knowledge about the ancient world (Near East, Greece, Egypt, China) for their teaching purpose.

Project Leader: Prof POO Mu Chou (Department of History)

Project website: http://sites.google.com/site/ancientcivnewperspectives/lecture-powerpoints

This project aims to identify health needs and evaluate the health and drug-related problems in rural areas elders through public lectures, outreach programme, workshops and online platform "Ask My Pharmacist! Online University-Led drug Enquiry" (AMPOULE).

Project Leader: Prof LEE Wing Yan, Vivian (School of Pharmacy)

Built on previous studies and application of research knowledge in mainstream society, this project aims to further a holistic understanding of South Asians in Hong Kong by focusing on two very little understood South Asian communities in Hong Kong, namely the Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans. Through public education, especially among the younger generation, as well as educators and frontline social workers, this project will further enhance cross-cultural knowledge among members of the mainstream society.

Project Leader: Prof TAM Siu Mi Maria (Department of Anthropology)

This project pioneers a systematic understanding of the Pakistani component of the local heritages, and seeks to promote cross-cultural awareness and appreciation among different ethnic groups and social sectors in Hong Kong society.

Project Leader: Prof TAM Siu Mi Maria (Department of Anthropology)

The project aims at a systematic understanding of the Nepalese component of local heritage, and seeks to promote cross-cultural awareness and appreciation among different ethnic groups and social sectors in HK society.

Project Leader: Prof TAM Siu Mi Maria (Department of Anthropology)

The Indian community has since the 19th century contributed to Hong Kong’s multicultural development through its cuisine, religion, and art.  This project pioneers a systematic understanding of this component of local heritage, and promotes cross-cultural awareness and appreciation among different ethnic groups and social sectors in Hong Kong society.

Project Leader: Prof Maria TAM (Department of  Anthropology)

This project aims to 1) improve mindfulness training skills of healthcare professionals; 2) raise awareness of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and mindfulness-based interventions among the general public and families affected by ADHD; 3) apply a mobile application of mindfulness-based intervention on children with ADHD and their parents.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Yeung Shan Samuel (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

The project aims to alert Hong Kong community of the wealth of Hong Kong music cultures and provide training for local specialists such as school teachers and community folklorists to cultivate public awareness of the local musical heritage.

Project Leader: Prof Michael E. MCCLELLAN (Department of Music)

This outreach project aims to cultivate a sense of belonging in Tin Shui Wai’s community, where teenagers create video-interviews about their neighborhood, using screenings, gatherings and social media to engage people in urban planning and transformation of public space.

Coordinating Leader: Prof TIEBEN Hendrik (School of Architecture)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof FUNG Ying Him Anthony (School of Journalism and Communication)

Project website: http://www.magiccarpet.hk

This project brings together women homemakers of different ethnic origins to develop appreciation of cultural diversity in Hong Kong. Through intercultural experiences they acquire cross-cultural knowledge and cosmopolitan worldviews, bringing about positive impacts on the family, especially children, and society at large. Participants also develop horizontal organization and entrepreneurial skills.

Project Leader: Prof TAM Siu Mi Maria (Department of Anthropology)

With mental health problems constituting major disease burden, mental health promotion in the community has important public impact. This project aims to develop an internet-based platform that enables community individuals to access mental health information and to enhance well-being through mindfulness and compassion training at their convenience.

Project Leader: Prof Mak Wing Sze Winnie (Department of Psychology)

Hong Kong's Tourism has been facing a considerable competition with some neighbouring destinations such as Macau and South China.  This project makes use of a local neighbourhood in Sheung Wan to demonstrate the possibility of transferring knowledge from community people to visitors for a better understanding of Hong Kong from an anthropological perspective,bringing inspiration to the importance of cultural aspects in Hong Kong’s tourism development. Tourists may do their self-paced tour with the help from the interactive website, walking map and iphone application.

Project Leader: Prof Sidney CHEUNG (Department of Anthropology)

Project website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/sheungwan

To promote the appreciation for Kunqu (昆曲) and Cantonese opera by introducing the literary and artistic elements to local secondary school students and the general public.  Live performances, website, books and teaching materials will be offered with the expertise of researchers and performers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.  These will also provide useful assistance to teachers of Chinese Language, Music and Liberal Studies in the New Senior Secondary School Curriculum.

Project Leader: Prof HUA Wei (Department of Chinese Language and Literature)

Project website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rih/mingqing/kunqu-yueju/

Early awareness and engagement of younger generation in geriatric care is vital for healthy living in our society and alleviation of the heavy burden on our health system. The project aims to introduce the health needs and problems of the elderly to secondary school students to prepare them for the demand of aging populations.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Wing Yan Vivian (School of Pharmacy)

This project aims to enable the elder people with coronary heart disease or stroke to live in the community and to enhance their ability to cope with the difficulties related to such disease. The specific objective is to improve their general knowledge and skill in terms of diet and weight control, exercise and stress management, for disease prevention. The project will establish an e-health approach (web) mostly for the elderly caretakers, as well as DVDs for members of elderly homes. Open lectures and community partnerships will be established for the elderly, such as self-help groups and day centers. It is hoped that the materials in the project will empower the public to take a proactive role in maintaining healthy lifestyle and to make a wide impact.

Project Leader: Prof Eliza WONG (The Nethersole School of Nursing)

Project website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/proj/CVHealth

This is an attempt to repackage academic outputs in refreshing e-formats which are readable and accessible to the general public.  As a communication school, we would like to experiment with innovative ways to bridge academic researches and civic engagements by constructing and branding a vibrant e-publishing house entitled jcMotion.

Project Leader: Prof Eric MA (School of Journalism and Communication)

Project website:
http://jcmotion.com.cuhk.edu.hk/publishing
http://jcmotion.com.cuhk.edu.hk/eshop

The aims of this project are to arouse the concern for biodiversity and environmental issues among secondary school students through their participation in an investigation of genetically modified papayas in Hong Kong and to let the students embrace new technologies for inspiring their interest in science.

Project Leader: Prof SHAW Pang Chui (School of Life Sciences)

To establish an internet platform to provide general and in-depth information regarding the safety concerns of Chinese herbal medicines during pregnancy for both general public and professional personnel.

Project Leader: Prof WANG Chi Chiu Ronald (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology)

“Interactive Concert for Autism” is a concept integrating clinical psychology with music that allows developing a cost-effective program teaching people with autism to better express themselves through music appreciation, and providing opportunity for the general public to understand the special need children/adults, which sows seeds for a more harmonic society.

Coordinating Leader: Prof Agnes CHAN (Department of Psychology)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof MAK Su Yin (Department of Music);
Prof CHEUNG Him (Department of Psychology)

Project website: http://www.musicautistic.com

With population ageing, there are increasing numbers of people spending the end of life in residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs). A large number have end stage non cancer illnesses, similar to the situation in hospitals. With experience in the continuous quality improvement programme for improving the quality of end of life care in Shatin Hospital, the project aims to further diffuse the knowledge and skills to RCHEs through a series of seminars and home sharing sessions.

Project Leader: Prof Jean WOO (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)

This project is a two-week long training programme which will be held at the CUHK Graduate Law Centre in June/ July 2012. The Academy will bring together government officials, scholars and practitioners from around the world to deepen their knowledge of the law and economics of international intellectual property protection.

Project Leader: Prof Bryan MERCURIO (Faculty of Law)

Project website: http://www.wti.org/courses/wticuhk-summer-programme-on-ip/

Sign language resources related to basic medical and health knowledge are scarce in Hong Kong. This project sets up an online databank explaining medical concepts in Hong Kong Sign Language with video clips and written Chinese, allowing deaf signers who lack access to health-related information to improve their health literacy. The platform will have a function to help deaf patients generate a written description of their illness, so as to facilitate their communication with hearing individuals such as health professionals when interpretation services are not available.

Project Leader: Prof SZE Yim Binh Felix (Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies)

By bring together with the expertise of scholars, writers and the professional support from the University Library System of CUHK (ULS) and the Government of the HKSAR Education Bureau, this project aims at transferring the knowledge of designing literary field trips to secondary school teachers who specialize in Chinese teaching via forum, workshops, literary field trips and a resourceful website so as to enhance literary readings among secondary school students.

Project Leader: Prof FAN Sin Piu (Department of Chinese Language and Literature)

Project website: http://hklitpub.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/topics/scenes/

An easy-to-follow promotion materials for the elderly, their family members and care-givers to enhance their awareness of healthy food choice and active lifestyle in Hong Kong to promote the concept of active lifestyle and healthy ageing for the elderly population in Hong Kong.

Coordinating Leader: Prof KWAN Hoi Shan (Food Research Centre, School of Life Sciences)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof Stanley HUI (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education); Prof Albert LEUNG (School of Chinese Medicine); Ms Peggy YIP (School of Life Sciences); Mr Tony YUNG (Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

The project aims to develop a guideline of protocol for clinical and social service professionals to identify grief and loss of family caregivers of people with dementia and provide necessary support for a better and holistic care to both caregivers and the people with dementia.

Coordinating Leader: Prof KWOK Chi Yui Timothy (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof CHAN Chi Ho Wallace (Department of Social Work)

This will be held in November 2011 to promote value creation, innovation and entrepreneurship, and to encourage students and research staff to meet and interact with entrepreneurs who can act as role models across faculties considering entrepreneurial careers.

Project Leader: Prof Hugh THOMAS (Centre for Entrepreneurship)

The project aims to assess the quality and the safety level of cooking oil among the local restaurants and catering services and provide a sounded management system for the trade to adopt sound cooking process to reduce the formation of trans fats and acrylamide which have an adverse effects on health and promote healthy eating information for the general public.

Project Leader: Prof KWAN Hoi Shan (Food Research Centre, School of Life Sciences)

The project aims to develop a guideline for effectively carrying out family assessment and intervention to families with people with dementia in the perspective of family system, together with a family-oriented web-based life review, to benefit the local clinical and service settings as well as the community.

Coordinating Leader: Prof Timothy KWOK (Department of Medicines and Therapeutic)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof WONG Oi Ling (Department of Social Work)

Project website: http://lifestory.adcarer.com/

To cope with increasing elderly healthcare demand with the aging population, management of geriatric orthopaedic problems caused by sarcopenia is urgently needed. This project aims to promote the awareness and management of sarcopenia and frailty for geriatric orthopaedic professionals through a series of public talks in order to identify sarcopenic patients in community.

Project Leader: Prof LEUNG Kwok Sui (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) is a coordinator-based secondary fracture prevention service for treatment of patients with osteoporotic fractures. FLS incorporates education, vibration treatment, medication and rehabilitation into a multi-disciplinary programme. This proposal aims to transfer fall prevention knowledge through education screening and assessments, professional training, and individual follow ups, and also stresses on secondary fracture prevention knowledge for those suffered from first fractures.

Project Leader: Prof CHEUNG Wing Hoi (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

To engage the alumni in the nurturing of students in entrepreneurship.  A multi-stage online survey will be conducted on the entrepreneurial impact of CUHK alumni in Hong Kong and the world over the past 40 years.  The results of the study will lead to the creation of the Entrepreneurs Mentorship Program to benefit current students and recent graduates who are interested in starting a business with guidance from CUHK alumni entrepreneurs through formal and informal gatherings, and via a permanent website for networking and information sharing.

Project Leader: Dr Louis LEUNG (Center for Entrepreneurship)

Project website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/proj/cuace

The project aims at supporting teachers to work with primary school children who have learning and/social difficulties.

Project Leader: Prof SIU Fung Ying Angela (Department of Educational Psychology)

To develop a system to facilitate the learning of Hong Kong Sign Language.  The design has won the prestigious Intel Cup Embedded System Design Contest in 2012.  Related to one ITF project on sign recognition.

Coordinating Leader: Prof XU Qiang (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof TANG Wai Lan Gladys (Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages); Prof WANG Xiaogang (Department of Electronic Engineering); Prof SZE Yim Binh Felix (Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages)

The project emphasizes on knowledge transfer and proposes a 6-phase implementation plan for improving overall dysphagia management in New Territories East. It will empower both nursing home staff and family members with dysphagia know-how through a series of lectures, hands-on workshops and pre- and post-assessments. At the same time, direct coaching on dysphagia management will be provided to maximize skill transfer during bi-monthly on-site speech therapist consultation.

Project Leader: Prof Kathy LEE (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery)

Project website:
http://www.ihcr.cuhk.edu.hk/events/pdf/2012_Dysphagia.pdf
http://goo.gl/dURVF

This project aims to transfer research knowledge on a range of legal and ethical issues the elderly population in Hong Kong is facing through a one-day workshop for professionals (such as social workers, health care professionals and administrators), NGOs and other stakeholders that provide services to the elderly.

Project Leader: Prof Mimi ZOU (Faculty of Law)

The communication burden of family members and/or caregivers with hearing impaired elderly is a problem that needs to be understood by the general community. This project aims to promote early detection, rehabilitation and communication tips among elderly and family members through public talks.

Project Leader: Prof NG Hoi Yee Iris (Institute of Human Communicative Research)

To develop a free online platform with quality HKDSE Economics learning resources (including multimedia content e.g. voice-recorded presentation for major topics as well as examination skills) for self-directed learning.  It aims to improve underprivileged students who do not have chance to receive private tutoring.

Project Leader: Prof FUNG Ka Yiu Michael (Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics)

The aim of this project is to publicize the importance of evidence-based practice in personnel assessment and training. To effect the publicizing of the necessity for using extant psychological tools and processes, the project will create a website that provides information about how to decide whether to hire an organization, use an assessment tool or purchase a training workshop, based on sound psychological principles. The website will also describe the pros and cons about using some widely available tests from an empirical, research point of view, but in layman’s terms, so that non-psychologists can understand them.

Project Leader: Dr Tim CAREY (Department of Psychology)

Project website: http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/cuhkhraid/index.html

With the implementation of the New Senior Secondary School Curriculum, secondary teachers and students are faced with the new challenge of teaching and learning advanced biotechnology.  A creative learning module with reagent kits for teaching and learning of biotechnologies through a forensic investigation will be developed to enhance students’ motivation of learning and establish a new model of pedagogy for teachers.  The kits will consist of a set of biochemical reagents, forensic samples, apparatus, experimental protocols for investigation, worksheets, and supporting materials to investigate a series of simulated criminal cases.

Project Leader: Prof KONG Siu Kai (Department of Biochemistry)

This project aims to develop socio-culturally relevant multimedia interventions to promote cervical cancer prevention among South Asian women in Hong Kong.

Project Leader: Prof SO Kwok Wei Winnie (The Nethersole School of Nursing)

In this project, two “Apps” will be designed. The first one is made to help acupuncture learner to study acupuncture meridian and non-meridian system. Another one is made for community people to learn acupressure practice for treating mild health problem and maintaining health status.

Project Leader: Prof Albert LEUNG (School of Chinese Medicine)

In the Biology curriculum under the New Senior Secondary School Curriculum, the inclusion of the advanced biotechnology module, which covers the fast-growing DNA technologies, is not only a new domain of knowledge for students, but also a great challenge for teachers in teaching the scientific concepts.  The project therefore aims at developing a set of education hardware modules that are affordable, safe and fun-rich for teachers to demonstrate the key principles of amplifying real DNA samples, which are crucial in the study of molecular biology and genetics.

Project Leader: Dr LEUNG Kwan Chi (Department of Biochemistry)

This project aims to develop a chronic disease self-management programme for local community-dwelling people with mild neurocognitive disorder (MNCD), in order to help them better manage their lives physically, psychologically, socially, maintaining their functioning and delaying further deterioration.

Project Leader: Prof Timothy KWOK (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)

This project aims to develop a culturally sensitive multi-language health multimedia website (texts, photos, video and audio materials) to promote healthy lifestyles and the prevention of chronic illnesses among South Asians in Hong Kong. By this means, information and preventive measures against chronic illness are disseminated to South Asians more effectively.

Coordinating Leader: Prof SO Kwok Wei Winnie (The Nethersole School of Nursing)

A Virtual Trainer (VT) online system was developed in 2006, and improved in 2010 (KPF project) for encouraging an active lifestyle; and this project intends to further improve VT (3rd version) which incorporates more effective psychological and e-health theories.

Coordinating Leader: Prof HUI Sai Chuen Stanley (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

This project aims to address short stories being proposed by the Curriculum Development Council and the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority in the English language curriculum and assessment guide (Secondary 4-6) (2007) as one of the elective modules. To support the curriculum reform, this programme nurtures young short stories writers in secondary schools in Hong Kong. English teachers from participating schools will be trained by experienced facilitators on how to motivate and guide their students through the process of writing short stories in a positive context. Subsequently, students are encouraged to write collaboratively. Short story writing competition is organized to further reinforce students’ practices.

Project Leader: Prof Barley MAK (Department of Curriculum and Instruction)

Project website: http://uapp2.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/writers/

The Database, which consists of more than 100 million words, incorporates around 300 historial texts on the socio-political thoughts during the period of 1830 - 1930 in modern China. Newspaper and magazines, written and translated works of Chinese officials and foregn visitors, historial dilpomatic records as well as text books on western knowledge are included. The Database supports searching by the title of historial text, keyword, author, and published year, etc. and is available in both traditional and simplified Chinese version. It is developed to facilitate researchers to search with with ease in voluminous academic materials, and is a valuable reference for the study of the History of Modern Chinese Thought.

Project Leader: Prof LEUNG Yuen Sang (Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture)

Project website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/rcccc/database

Industrial contacts which have been scattered over different centres and offices of the University are put together with more functions and capabilities for strategic marketing and exploration of opportunities, thus pooling resources and networks.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Kam Fai (Centre for Innovation and Technology)

This project sets up a programme of non-for-credit certificate bearing courses on business venturing for CUHK undergraduate and post-graduate students as well as members of the business community.  A hands-on, experiential, collaborative business-academic environment is provided with the help of internal and external partners. The objectives are to stimulate innovations, foster a culture of entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer among students and staff, facilitate the recruitment of entrepreneurial-minded students for new start-up companies, and raise the success rate of the start-ups.

Project Leader: Prof AU Yuk Fai Kevin (Center for Entrepreneurship)

Project website: http://entrepreneurship.baf.cuhk.edu.hk/webinar/info

This project enables the University to build a client base for technology transfer.  Companies are invited to join the programme as members enjoy benefits such as being assisted to implement the Open Innovation model in their corporate R&D operations, regular forums providing updates on CUHK innovations, and access to certain free consultancy services.  It is a regular link of communication between CUHK and the industry, and a means for companies to keep pace with technological developments worldwide.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Kam Fai (Centre for Innovation and Technology)

Project website: http://www.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/coin

To address the hot and important issue of climate change and urban climate, CUHK researchers have invented solutions including the Air Ventilation Assessment Methodologies to combat the so-called “wall effects” of buildings.  A number of recent initiatives launched by the HKSAR Government have been based on CUHK’s researches, which have profound impact on the industry in practice.  In collaboration with the Hong Kong Professional Green Building Council and the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the project aims to disseminate the knowledge more systemically to the industry and educate the professionals on the application of it by means of online information portal, fact sheets and workshops.

Project Leader: Prof NG Yan Yung Edward (School of Architecture)

The CUHK Alumni Entrepreneur Network (CUAEN) is a series of programmes and activities for connecting CUHK entrepreneurial alumni, students and non-entrepreneurial alumni, to enhance knowledge transfer of entrepreneurial skills and commercializing technologies. Through the Mentoring Programme and ancillary programmes, CUAEN becomes an effective programme to develop entrepreneurs. It can help students learning about entrepreneurship, using the accumulated knowledge and practices of our alumni, we are fostering an entrepreneurial community in CUHK.

Project Leader: Prof AU Yuk Fai Kevin (Center for Entrepreneurship)

This is a continuation project driven by response to the Entrepreneurial Impact of CUHK Alumni.  It creates a web-based network for alumni mentors to share their experience with and expert advice for CUHK students in starting up business and commercializing technologies.

Project Leader: Prof AU Yuk Fai Kevin (Centre for Entrepreneurship)

The project aims to build collaborative and learning communities of Physical Education teachers to share expertise and plan around common goals for the development of a healthy active lifestyle among students, and in response to the school curriculum reform.  A sustainable professional partnership system among university scholars, frontline secondary/primary school teachers and prospective teachers is built up through a web-based communication platform, a professional portfolio system and face-to-face interaction.  Teaching materials and workshops are also provided.

Project Leader: Prof HA Sau Ching Amy (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

This project aims at developing a one-stop easy access website with automatically updated comprehensive food safety information for regions in Hong Kong and Greater China. By extracting relevant data in Chinese language from the internet continuously, the food safety experts identify relevant keywords so as to establish a reliable source list. Afterwards, further analyzing, grouping, categorizing and reorganizing in a well-designed order with searching and filtering features are developed. The extracted information is highlighted and recommended in the website which provides a user-friendly interface and trustworthy information for the industry and the public.

Project Leader: Prof KWAN Hoi Shan (Food Research Centre)

Project website: http://kwanlab.bio.cuhk.edu.hk/FS/

To cope with the increasing demand for elderly health care in the coming future, the focus on geriatric orthopaedic care from inpatient management to a decentralized community comprehensive care approach is emphasized.  This programme aims to promote the importance of multidisciplinary approach in managing elderly patients with fragility fractures.

Project Leader: Prof LEUNG Kwok Sui (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

Project website: http://www.no-fall.hk/t/seminar_on_decentralized_rehabilitation.html

The physical and psychological well-being of family caregivers of dementia patients cannot be overlooked. Internet-supported therapeutic interventions have been developed overseas, but these are not available in Chinese. The KT project aims to develop a CBT based online programme in Chinese as a new and effective means to support caregivers in the local community, Mainland China, Taiwan and other regions. The Project Leader is also the Director of the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CUHK which offers much needed day care service for dementia patients and their carers.

Project Leader: Prof KWOK Chi Yui Timothy (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)

Project website: http://www.adcarer.com/course3_index.php

As China takes its place as a leader of global business, domestic and foreign demand for China-related knowledge and insights is growing. Knowledge centers exist globally but non focus specifically on China. This creates an opportunity for CUHK Business School to create an institution – “China Business Knowledge” (CBK) that meets this unmet demand.

Project Leader: Prof HSU Ning Vernon (Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics)

Project website: http://www.bschool.cuhk.edu.hk/faculty/cbk

CFRED colloquia bring regulators, practitioners and academics together to share knowledge on pressing legal issues central to the economy of Hong Kong. Through this project, CFRED offers the public up to 20 colloquia that were designed to promote research and knowledge transfer, especially in the areas of economically oriented law, such as financial and trade regulation.

Project Leader: Prof David C. DONALD (Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development)

Project website: http://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/research/cfred/events.php

This project aims to transfer knowledge of findings from an online Pinyin dictation study to the Hong Kong community through developing 2 smartphone apps to assist Cantonese speakers to sharpen the perceptual distinction of Putonghua/ Cantonese segments and suprasegmentals, and to refine the skill of transcribing Putonghua/ Cantonese syllables into romanized letters.

Porject Leader: Prof ZHANG Yanhui (Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages)

This project facilitates the continuing professional development of Hong Kong English teachers in teaching reading and writing through the establishment of a web-based community of learning, where pedagogical ideas and resources, best practices, and real-life classroom examples are disseminated. The online community also includes a forum for exchange of professional ideas, questions and answers, and classroom tips to help frontline teachers enhance their literacy instruction.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Kit Bing Icy (Department of Curriculum and Instruction)

Project website: http://uapp2.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/elite/

This project aims at capturing and presenting our knowledge for the expectation differences between young people and employers in Hong Kong with a four-stage process:
Stage One: 5 video-taped interviews with business executives from diverse backgrounds
Stage Two: Two video-taped focus group meetings with the young people to feedback on the five completed interviews in stage one
Stage Three: 300 DVDs distributed in a public seminar
Stage Four: Upload to the CUHK e-learning platform

Project Leader: Dr IUN Sio Kun Joyce (Department of Management)

This project implements diabetes mellitus (DM) screening and secondary DM prevention programmes among sedentary individuals of age 45 or above at risk of DM in public housing estates.

Coordinating Leader: Prof LAU Tak Fai Joseph (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

This project provides a series of intervention programmes for older adults who show early signs of cognitive and/or mood disorder. The intervention was developed by the research team that is based upon Chinese culture, and empirical evidence has showed that it is effective on improving the cognitive function and emotional state of older adults.

Coordinating Leader: Prof CHAN Sui Yin Agnes (Department of Psychology)

HIV threatens healthy living of “men who have sex with men” (MSM). HIV testing is a recommended but under-utilized HIV prevention strategy. Data collected by the project team show that online HIV self-testing and counseling (HIVST-online) is well accepted by local MSM. This project promotes HIVST-online in collaboration with a major non-governmental organization.

Coordinating Leader: Prof LAU Tak Fai Joseph (Centre for Health Behaviours Research)

The project develops a tree identification encyclopedia system which consists of a recognition program and a database to enhance identification of trees in the field using a netbook computer or tablet computer like iPad. The team focuses on using tree leaves for identification purpose and start by constructing a data bank of selected important plant characters include leaf arrangement on stem, blade division, leaf shape, venation, margin, petiole, leaf base and hairiness.

Project Leader: Prof CHU Lee Man (School of Life Sciences)

To address the issues of increasing popularity of self-medication as the first-line treatment of mild diseases, and the lack of drug knowledge among the general public, a new online interactive drug enquiry system called AMPOULE is established for the Hong Kong public to pose any drug-related questions. Enquiries are answered by pharmacists via email or on telephone with a personalized solution.  Networks are also set up with community partners including elderly centres, nursing homes, private physician clinics, private/chained community pharmacies, university health clinics, school clinics, public and private hospitals.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Wing Yan Vivian (School of Pharmacy)

Project website: http://www.ampoule.org.hk

This project, entitled “Hub for Advancing CUHK Entrepreneurship (ACE Hub)”, aims to systematically advance students, faculty staff, or alumni from idea, startup and growth in entrepreneurial venturing, HAE will marshal efforts of different existing units in CUHK, and create a Consultation Scheme, sets of Toolkit, Training Workshops, and investment fund for nurturing entrepreneurs and startups from CUHK.

Coordinating Leader: Prof AU Yuk Fai Kevin (Center for Entrepreneurship)

Project website: http://acehub.hk/

This project aims at empowering the elderly through participation in cultural activities and visits to community organizers of preservation of intangible cultural heritage in Hong Kong. By reconnecting themselves to local cultural heritage and traditions, the elderly are expected to learn and transform the meanings of active ageing. Interviews for narration of the elderly's role in preserving and maintaining cultural heritage are documented for building an electronic archive at CUHK.

Coordinating Leader: Prof WONG Wai Ching Angela (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies)

This project aims to establish an open learning platform and provide a real-time demonstration on how an input Chinese sentence is made up from its characters, words, and constituent phrases. It will be beneficial to ethnic minorities who are eager to learn Chinese and will enhance their competitiveness in the job market.

Coordinating Leader: Prof CHAN Wai Kwong Samuel (Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics)

This project aims at increasing public awareness on the principles and safety issues of genetically modified (GM) food and common medicinal products.  Through an education programme, it addresses the lack of knowledge and widespread misconception about GM food, potential allergens contained in these products and the variation of nutritional values.

Project Leader: Prof NG Tzi Bun (School of Biomedical Sciences)

The project promotes the concept of healthy and active lifestyle to improve health of ethnic minority populations locally, through easy-to-follow learning activities and promotion materials for ethnic minority children and their families.

Coordinating Leader: Prof KWAN Hoi Shan (Food Research Centre)

This project builds up a mobile application on both iOS and Android OS platforms, for helping multiple communities’ users to share and collaborate based on their common interests. Experiences, opinions and information could be instantly and efficiently shared amongst the communities’ members globally.

Project Leader: Prof FU Wai Chee Ada (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)

Project website: http://www.beyond-six.com/

This project is to develop a Report Card entitled “Active Healthy Kids Hong Kong” to provide a synthesis of the best available evidence on various indicators related to physical activity. It serves as a call to action, a policy driver and a standardized system for international comparison.

Coordinating Leader: Prof WONG Heung Sang Stephen (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

This project involves a series of activities including talks, training workshops and CUHK cup targeting 500 children aged 8 to 15 with their parents/caregivers.  With an interactive website “Mission Possible – 30 Minute Plus” and an exercise toolkit, the project aims to promote a physically active lifestyle and healthy eating via a family-based programme.

Coordinating Leader: Prof HA Sau Ching Amy (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

This project aims to equip professional and semi-professional workers in elderly service of community NGOs with knowledge and skills in cognitive screening using the Hong Kong version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HK-MoCA) for early identification of cognitively impaired elderly persons in the aging community.

Project Leader: Prof Adrian WONG (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)

This project is to ignite a vibrant community on entrepreneurial financing for CUHK-related new ventures, by establishing the CUHK Angel Network and several “sidecar” funds. Healthcare startups will receive a keen attention.

Coordinating Leader: Prof AU Yuk Fai Kevin (Centre for Entrepreneurship)

With the demand of Social Thinking® Training at a deeper level from professionals, in this project, the emphasis is put on Knowledge transfer and a plan to publish an extended version, Social Thinking® Training – ILAUGH Handbook (II), to empower professionals to enhance the quality and level of Social Thinking® training with the Autism Spectrum Disorder students.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Yuet Sheung Kathy (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery)

This project is part of another KPF project called AMPOULE (2009). It aims at developing a new innovative telemedicine channel for the promotion of medication safety to elders and their caretakers in the community. Educational leaflets on proper medical use, as well as explanatory graphics are all part of the project to further disseminate the knowledge. Through a series of home visits, pharmacists are able to conduct counseling and using compliance tools, in order to identify the health needs and resolve any potential and existing drug-related problems by intervening and making professional recommendations for elders. The project aims at efficiently generating generic and specific health needs assessments and programmes to better fulfill the needs of our elders in the community.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Wing Yan Vivian (School of Pharmacy)

Project website: http://www.ampoule.org.hk/appointment.php

This book publication project serves as valuable reference materials for entrepreneurship study. They are good publications for circulation amongst alumni associations and networks. The first publication of the book series consists of two books, an ordinary publication and a premium publication with photo albums. Each of these two books have e-book versions (one free and one paid) on two mobile platforms (iPad and Android tablets).

Project Leader: Prof AU Yuk Fai Kevin (Center for Entrepreneurship)

This project aims to develop a sustainable programme to support student athletes in secondary schools, thereby fostering different levels of academic and athletic development. It also aims to draw Government’s and other relevant organizations’ attention to review the “sports policy” with benchmark outcomes of this project.

Coordinating Leader: Prof SUM Kim Wai Raymond (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

Mental health problems (e.g. depression) among students and teachers are prevalent, interrelated and consequential. This project develops and implements a positive psychology program to improve mental health among secondary school students and their teachers, using the simple, widely used, evidence-based, and effective gratitude-based Three Good Things (TGT) approach.

Coordinating Leader: Prof MO Kit Han Phoenix (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

This project aims at developing an on-line teaching aid for selected topics in biotechnology and biochemistry for the NSS biology curriculum which contain videos and virtual lab experiments and teaching instructions, for teachers and students to understand the detailed experimental procedures.

Project Leader: Prof SHAW Pang Chui (School of Life Sciences)

A series of visits, workshops and talks to identify the treatments of pain besides physiological treatments that can be derived from the humanities.  The targets are elderly service and palliative centers in Hong Kong.

Coordinating Leader: Prof GENIUSAS Saulius (Department of Philosophy)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof JACOBS Katrien (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies); MATHEWS Gordon (Department of Anthropology); CHEUNG Ching Yuen (Department of Philosophy); WONG Yiu Hong (Department of Philosophy)

This project puts emphasis on knowledge transfer and hopes to advocate the concept of hearing conservation and to raise public awareness for the youth on how to protect their hearing from noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in the community.

Project Leader: Prof TONG Chi Fai Michael (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery)

This public health campaign aims to convey the message of the seriousness of sarcopenia (age-related loss of muscle mass) to the stakeholders (i.e. elderly, volunteers and caregivers serving elderly, and frontline healthcare staff and providers) through education talks, risk assessment, and professional training.

Coordinating Leader: Prof LEUNG Kwok Sui (Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof FUNG Kwok Pui (School of Biomedical Sciences); Prof MA Ching Wan Ronald (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics); Prof GRIFFITH James (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)

Project website: http://www.no-fall.hk/t/sarcopenia.html

This project supports participatory management in welfare service organizations by providing a practice model of collaborative service design that highlights the experience of service use. Training and coaching support is provided to working teams that apply the experience-based service design with the welfare service users.

Project Leader: Prof LEUNG Tse Fong Terry (Department of Social Work)

COIN has been in operations for more than 1 year and welcomed by the industry. This project hoped to spend additional resources to form a “multi-disciplinary” and “Distributed and Centralized” team to extend and enhance the connections with more companies and industrial organizations for further improvement of COIN.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Kam Fai (Centre for Innovation and Technology)

Project website: http://pip.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/seminars/?page_id=1734

A new initiative to empower the public to prevent and control the occurrence of coronary heart disease, stroke and hypertension.  A website will be developed for free public access to healthcare knowledge, sharing among support groups and communication with health professionals.  The service will be widely promoted to patient self-help groups, community rehabilitation networks, professional nursing associations and health centres.

Project Leader: Prof CHAIR Sek Ying (The Nethersole School of Nursing)

Project website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/proj/CVHealth

To integrate daily life activities such as walking, biking and taking stairs into everyday routines of 3000 secondary 1-3 students from 30 schools.  The emphases are on the benefits of regular exercise and overcoming exercise barriers.  It is an Internet-delivered program, complimented by an information booklet.  Workshops and seminars will be organized for students and parents before, during and after the program.

Project Leader: Prof Stephen Wong (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

Project website: http://www.ktcuhk.org/

This project aims to transfer the knowledge of cervical cancer prevention and self-sampling skill to a group of volunteers and to disseminate the knowledge to a wider group of women who are reluctant to present themselves for cervical cancer screening. The volunteers include Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BScPH) students of CUHK, students recruited from other schools and universities, community volunteers and residents of Kwai Tsing District. This project enhances the community engagement via knowledge transfer partnership and delivery of education programme.

Project Leader: Prof WONG Lai Yi Eliza (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

In collaboration with the Hong Kong Chiu Chow Merchants Mutual Assistance Society’s music group (香港潮商互助社音樂組), this project uses research materials in the Chinese Music Archive and Chinese Opera Information Centre, and fieldwork with the Society’s music group to enhance the understanding of Chaozhou music and musical practices in Hong Kong through public lectures, workshops and music performances.

Project Leader: Prof LEE Tong Soon (Department of Music)

Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases risk of stroke and particularly dangerous for elderly.  In a previously KPF funded project, the team found that 2% of the elderly may have AF but unaware of the disease.  The current project aims to promote the awareness and for early detection of AF of the elderly community.

Coordinating Leader: Prof Vivian LEE (School of Pharmacy)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof LAM Yat Yin (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics);
Prof Bryan YAN (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)

Project website: http://www.pharmacy.cuhk.edu.hk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=313&Itemid=950

This project aims at promoting health lifestyles for optimal Vit-D status and good bone health for adolescents via knowledge transfer in form of education talks, a web-based education platform and a mobile application.

Porject Leader: Prof LAM Tsz Ping (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

A series of talks, cognitive training workshops and community social activities to promote healthy brain function in elderly. The targets are day care centers for elderly (aged 60 or above) in Hong Kong.

Coordinating Leader: Prof WONG Chun Man Patrick (Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof TSE Chi-Shing (Department of Educational Psychology)

This project aims at, through the establishment of an inter-school community of online game-based collaborative learning, promoting Hong Kong junior-secondary students’ motivation and skills in issue-enquiry for better preparing them for studying the subject of Liberal Studies in the senior-secondary curriculum. An online educational platform – Learning Village (LV) will be adopted to create this community. LV operates in a form of massively multi-player online role-play game (MMORPG) in which each student has his/ her own avatar to participate in pedagogically-scaffolded issue-enquiry with their peers.

Project Leader: Prof Morris JONG (Department of Curriculum and Instruction)

Project website:
http://www.learningvillages.net
http://www.facebook.com/LearningVillages

"Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have delayed development of nonverbal communication skills, especially gesture (spontaneous hand movement produced while talking). Such delay hinders learning and interaction. This project aims to promote gestural skills among school-aged children with ASD through online social robotics, thereby improving class participation and teacher-student relation.

Project Leader: Prof SO Wing Chee, Catherine (Department of Educational Psychology)"

The health of drivers (>500,000 in Hong Kong) is quintessential subject for promoting healthy-living in the community.  Awareness of medical conditions leading to transient loss of consciousness may lead to earlier treatment, adjustment of life-style and help reduce the number of accidents on the road.

Coordinating Leader: Prof Howan LEUNG (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics)
Project Collaborator(s): Prof Ignatius YU (School of Public Health and Primary Care)

This project aims at promoting healthy lifestyles among middle-aged Chinese population in Hong Kong through professional body fat measurement device, brief counseling, mobile apps, and using an integrated approach by transferring current knowledge.

Project Leader: Prof SU Xuefen (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)

3.11 is a catastrophe that shocked the world.  The massive destruction of natural environment and local communities in Tohoku area of Japan suggests a difficult path for restoration.  This project aims to support the revitalization of communities and environment with activities such as philosophy cafe, translation project, exhibition and workshop.

Coordinating Leader: Dr CHEUNG Ching-yuen (Department of Philosophy)
Project Collaborators: Prof Saulius GENISUAS (Department of Philosophy);
Prof Stephen NAGY (Department of Japanese Studies);
Dr WONG Yiu Hong (Department of Philosophy);
Dr YAMAGUCHI Kiyoko (Department of History)

Project website: http://prezi.com/jybrkz_g-dgd/311-center-activity-timeline/

To enhance the sports science knowledge of the coaches and players with the HKFA, thereby developing a structure of professional preparation for training and performance.  Furthermore, this project will enable a clear pathway for progression among the emerging talent within the academy and high-performance units of the HKFA.

Project Leader: Prof Stephen WONG (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)

This project creates conversation opportunities between people with mental illness and the general public using personal stories over face-to-face contact and social media to eradicate stigma and promote well-being. The project also aims to connect stigma reduction strategies with a mental health promotion internet platform to provide a one-stop internet portal that serves to educate emerging and young adults about mental health.

Project Leader: Prof MAK Wing Sze Winnie (Department of Psychology)

For increased awareness and cultural change amongst healthcare workers, high quality web-based teaching materials will be developed and produced to facilitate teaching of courses on Patient Safety to all levels of staff involved in direct patient contact - from orderlies and receptionists to senior clinicians.  E-learning combined with traditional face-to-face small group teaching will be offered.  There will also be train-the-trainers courses and the experienced trainers will then be able to provide the training so as to achieve cascading dissemination of the course.

Project Leader: Prof Charles GOMERSALL (Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine)

Project website: http://aic-server4.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/BASIC.htm

The CUHK Moot Cup Competition will provide secondary school students with an invaluable opportunity to understand the importance of Hong Kong’s constitutional systems, human rights and the rule of law.  They will gain a unique insight into life as a student at CUHK, bridging the gap between secondary and tertiary education.

Project Leader: Prof Michael RAMSDEN (Faculty of Law)

This project aims at building a young and energetic e-platform for enhancing media awareness; offering courses, workshops and day camps for primary and secondary students on media literacy and producing and creating innovative works in different forms of media.

Project Leader: Prof Donna CHU (School of Journalism and Communication)

Project website:
http://www.facebook.com/MarsMediaCUHK
http://www.youtube.com/MarsMediaCUHK

A week-long series of workshops and symposium will be organized for a wide range of practitioners in the field – orthopaedic specialists, geriatricians, family physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, orthotists, nutritionists, and social workers in the community.  They will share knowledge and experience in preventing fall and related fractures in the elderly, and be given relevant training.  Free educational talks on bone health will also be offered to the elderly in the community.

Project Leader: Prof LEUNG Kwok-Sui (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

Project website: http://www.no-fall.hk/32C/32C.htm