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Tutors Certificate Course – 1-Day Foundational Workshop: Foundations in Teaching and Learning (August 14, 2025)

Common Core / BASc Lounge Room 150 1/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong

As an initiative to provide a professional development path for tutors, the Communication-Intensive Courses (CiC) initiative in collaboration with the Common Core and the Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), is hosting a 1-day workshop open to all HKU tutors. Date: 14 August 2025 (Thursday) Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Location: Common Core & […]

Induction Talk on Common Core Courses (for new students) – August 28

LE1, Library Extension Building

The Talk will provide an opportunity for you to obtain information and ask questions in relation to Common Core course selection. Date: August 28, 2025 (Thursday) Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Venue: LE1, Library Extension Building, Main Campus, HKU Registration Link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/cXzer8PRpx

Interdisciplinary Teaching for New Common Core Teachers

Learning Lab, RRS321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU

The Common Core is organising a workshop for new-to-Common Core co-ordinators and teachers on: Date: Friday, 29 August 2025 Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Venue: RRS 321 (Learning Lab), Run Run Shaw Building The session will be an opportunity to learn from the best practices of experienced Common Core teachers and ask questions. Afterwards, […]

Orientation Workshop for Common Core Tutors, Semester 1, 2025-26

Common Core / BASc Lounge Room 150 1/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong

Post-digital Learning: Teaching, Tech, and Tomorrows Orientation Workshop for Common Core Tutors, Semester 1, 2025-26 All of us in the Common Core would like to warmly welcome new and experienced tutors to the second semester of teaching. Tutors are at the heart of creating a dynamic and impactful learning experience for students at the Common […]

Common Core Student Consultant Gathering & Pizza Get-Together

Common Core / BASc Lounge Room 150 1/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong

CC Consultant Gathering & Pizza Get-Together The Common Core Student Consultants, who come from across all the Faculties and all years of undergraduate study, value the range of possibilities that the Core creates for undergraduate learning. These students provide feedback about how to improve the experience of the Core, suggest new ideas for the Core, […]

Generative AI Hackathon for SDGs 2025 – Launch Day

Lecture Hall II (Opposite Grand Hall Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre), HKU Centennial Campus

Join us for this hackathon launch day to familiarise yourself with the hackathon schedule and rules, meet new friends, form your team, and plan your collaborative journey ahead. Date: 20 September 2025 (Saturday) Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm  Venue: Lecture Hall II (Opposite Grand Hall Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre), HKU Centennial Campus What […]

Observing the UN International Day of Peace

Common Core / BASc Lounge Room 150 1/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong

From the wars dominating our newsfeeds to rising violence in everyday life, peace feels fragile. Yet peace begins with people — with us. On Sunday, join the UNESCO Hong Kong Association, Rotary Action Group for Peace, and HKU Common Core to observe the UN International Day of Peace @ HKU. Date: 21 September 2025 (Sunday) Time: 9:30–11:00 […]

Driving Teaching and Learning through Digital Tech and AI

Zoom

Digital technologies and generative artificial intelligence have transformed many aspects of teaching and learning in higher education. These tools offer opportunities to enhance student engagement, facilitate collaborative learning, and develop essential communication literacies. We invite teachers to participate in our interactive workshop (running again due to popular demand), designed to provide a practical overview of […]

Sharing Session with Professor Dagmar Schäfer

Common Core / BASc Lounge Room 150 1/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong

A session will be held for a representative group of students who have taken CC courses to meet with Professor Schäfer as an opportunity for her to know more about students’ experiences in the CC. The details of the session is as follows:   Date: October 8, 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm […]

Facilitation Basics for Teaching and Learning- Questioning and Leading (Postponed)

Common Core / BASc Lounge Room 150 1/F Main Building, The University of Hong Kong

Workshop: Facilitation Basics for Teaching and Learning- Questioning and Leading The workshop focuses on facilitation skills for interdisciplinary teaching contexts. Through hands-on and playful activities, we will practice questioning and listening techniques, moving your students across levels of abstraction, how to maintain the connection during delivery, and skills for leading and pacing. Teachers will walk […]

Scaling Sustainable Ventures and Impact Investing: Lessons from The Mills Fabrica

Learning Lab, RRS321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU

Join Cintia for an eye-opening session on building entrepreneurial ecosystems and communities. The talk focuses on how to empower entrepreneurs and early-stage ventures to tackle climate change, resource scarcity, and other urgent planetary challenges. Cintia unpacks how mission-aligned capital and industry partnerships can drive systemic shifts by supporting technologies and business models that respect planetary […]

HKU Information day 2025

HKU

HKU Information day 2025 Date: Oct 25, 2025 (Saturday) Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Venue: The University of Hong Kong Stop by our booth to learn more about the Common Core and grab an exclusive souvenir available only on Info Day!