Announcements

The TransDisciplinary Undergraduate Research Project is an opportunity for an individual or small groups of undergraduate students to pursue funded research on a topic of their own choosing. To be carried out locally or outside Hong Kong, the project will be supervised by a Faculty mentor, with a duration of between 6 weeks to 6 months.   All undergraduate students (first to final year) are eligible to apply  Application Period for 2023-24 (Sem 2): Now – March 29, 2024 Application method and guidelines: https://commoncore.hku.hk/tdugr-project/ Previous projects: https://commoncore.hku.hk/cc-ug-research/td-student-research/

U21 RISE (Real Impact on Society and Environment) is an international video competition for student teams to showcase their projects related to sustainability and social innovation. Winning teams will be awarded a prize of USD 2,000 each, together with access to a global network of experts in academia and industry to help scale their projects. If you have a voluntary, social enterprise or environmental project that you would like to showcase, scale up, develop, and build, then RISE is for you! Deadline of Application: 8 April, 2024 For more details and submission method of U21 RISE 2023/24, please visit https://commoncore.hku.hk/u21-rise/.

  deTour 2023 – design festival is back with “New Know How” from 24 November to 3 December. This year, curators Kay Chan Wan Ki, Chi-wing Lee and STICKYLINE delve deep into the heart of local crafts, examining their glorious past and envisioning a future that bridges old and new. PMQ will again be transformed into an interactive playground where visitors can experiment with new concepts while immersing themselves in Hong Kong’s rich cultural heritage.   With over 20 installations and exhibitions, 40 workshops and 12 design dialogues, film screenings and guided tours featuring seasoned and young artists, deTour 2023

The TransDisciplinary Undergraduate Research Project is an opportunity for an individual or small groups of undergraduate students to pursue funded research on a topic of their own choosing. To be carried out locally or outside Hong Kong, the project will be supervised by a Faculty mentor, with a duration of between 6 weeks to 6 months.   All undergraduate students (first to final year) are eligible to apply  Application Period for 2023-24 (Sem 1): Now – October 31, 2023 Application method and guidelines: https://commoncore.hku.hk/tdugr-project/

Register before 28 Aug, 2023 deTour is Hong Kong’s largest annual design festival, featuring innovative installations, creative workshops, inspiring design dialogues, and more. This year’s festival will be held at the PMQ from November 24th to December 3rd, and Common Core will be one of the supporting organisations of the festival. deTour 2023 – design festival is currently conducting an Open Call exercise for Creative Proposals for Workshops to respond to this year’s theme “New Know How”. The deadline for submitting is 28 August 2023 (12:00 nn). Sponsorship Max. HKD 2,500* / session *The number of workshop sessions and amount of

Register before Sep 17 We invite undergraduate students to join the program Cities Alive Hong Kong: WHAT ARE THE 100 ISSUES SHAPING HONG KONG’S FUTURE? in collaboration with Arup https://www.arup.com/. Students from all disciplines are encouraged to join. No prior experience is required, just an interest in exploring Hong Kong’s future. Over 8 weeks, students will: Attend interactive workshops by Arup’s Foresight team to learn futures thinking concepts and methodologies Conduct desktop research in teams on social, technological, economic, environmental, and policy trends specific to Hong Kong Develop a set of “Cities Alive” cards (20 cards per team) communicating key

Dear all,   It’s our pleasure to share with you that the project “LEAN Social – Virtual Work & Study Space for GenZ” (https://www.lean.social) carried out by Ky Nam Nguyen, Fanyin Yang and Zi Hao Lam, has received the Most Collaborative award in the U21 RISE (Real Impact on Society and Environment) 2023 competition!   We would like to take this opportunity to give our sincere congratulations to the team and thank all students whose fantastic works were showcased in the competition. You could view the entries at https://universitas21.com/RISE-2223.   The Common Core nominates one or more student projects every