I･CARE Centre for Whole-person Development E-newsletter

The Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK, which is a subsidiary of this Centre, will launch a series of social innovation activities to encourage participants to advance existing services or products to meet social needs. Through S.I. Leadership Workshops, Social Innovation Competition and Overseas Exchange, participants will gain more in-depth knowledge of the underprivileged and adopt people-oriented approach to address social challenges. Winners of the Social Innovation Competition will receive the S.I. Leadership Award (in terms of seed money up to HK$160,000) to implement their social innovation projects. Details of the activities are as follows:

Briefing Session

Date : 27 September 2018 (Thursday)
Time : 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Venue : Room 502, Wong Foo Yuan Building
Target : All CUHK students and alumni
Content : 1. Social innovation case sharing (Speaker: Mr. Kelvin Cheung - Chief Executive Officer of
The Good Lab*)
2. Introduction to the S.I. Leadership Workshops, Social Innovation Competition and
Overseas Exchange
3. S.I. Leadership Award 2017-18 - awardee sharing session
Registration : Please click here
Deadline : 24 September 2018 (Monday)

Exhibition on Social Business Projects

Date : 26-27 September 2018 (Wednesday & Thursday)
Venue : G/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park

Other Activities

1. S.I. Leadership Workshop (I) and S.I. Leaders Sharing: October - November 2018
2. S.I. Leadership Workshop (II), S.I. Leaders Sharing and Social Innovation Competition: January - July 2019

If you have any enquiry, please contact Mr. Or of this Centre at 3943 3227 (Tel) or timothycnor@cuhk.edu.hk (Email).

* Introduction of The Good Lab could be learnt from http://www.goodlab.hk/en/.

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