The Ceremony was officiated by Professor Wong Hung, who presented the award certificates to the winning teams Rolling Books: Rolling Dialogues and Plain Hiker (previously named Wildbreezes). In addition, participants of the S.I. Leadership Award 2018-19 turned up and shared with the audience their experience and gains over the past year, thereby encouraging students and alumni to actively engage in social innovation activities to deal with social problems.
As for the briefing on activities, it covered the forthcoming "S.I. Leaders Sharing", "S.I. Leadership Workshop", "Social Innovation Competition" and "Overseas Exchange". Schedules of the former two activities, which welcome all CUHK students and alumni, are set out below:
Activity | Topic | Date | Time | Speaker | Details and Enrolment |
S.I. Leaders Sharing
| From "Doing" to "Making" - Why should Everyone Start a Business? | 17 October 2019 (Thursday) | 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Ms. Zhang Jie-ping | Please visit here. |
S.I. Leadership Workshop
| Reflection on Poverty Issue in Hong Kong - the Vulnerable Groups | 24 October 2019 (Thursday) | 7:00 - 9:30 pm | Prof. Wong Hung | Please visit here. |
Community Tour | 2 November 2019 (Saturday) | 2:00 - 5:00 pm | / |
Global Vision of Social Innovation - Regional & Global Experience | 7 November 2019 (Thursday) | 7:00 - 9:30 pm | Mr. Yu Tsuen-kweun and Dr. Luk Tak-chuen |
Design Thinking | Details are to be announced by 2 November 2019. |
For more information about the Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK, please click here. If there is any enquiry, please contact Mr. Or of this Centre at 3943 3227 (Tel) or timothycnor@cuhk.edu.hk (Email).