Mongolian Critical Zones: Experiential Learning in the Winter Steppes

Mongolian Critical Zone: Experiential Learning in the Winter Steppes is a 7-day experiential learning trip to the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, designed to give HKU students to experience tackling the intertwined issues of sustainable urban living in extreme climates and youth education/mentorship within marginalized communities (Ger districts and rural areas). 

Participants will engage in transdisciplinary discourse with two local NGOs, Gerhub and Nuuldelch Zuslan, who will introduce to participants the way of sustainable living in the extreme winter, as well as collaborate with participants to provide local youth empowerment. The Trip frames Ulaanbaatar’s winter urban–steppe interface as a “Critical Zone”, treating the city as a situated observatory that shifts from distant global views to terrestrial, place-based inquiry that integrates housing, health, education, and environment into one transdisciplinary method of volunteering and research.

Date of trip: 12 Jan 2026 to 18 Jan 2026
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Only undergraduate HKU students are eligible to participant. 

Organised by HKU Transdisciplinary Initiative for Talents and Innovators (TITAN). For more information, please contact: Philip Chung Hong Li (plich@connect.hku.hk)