On 14 April 2025, the Year 2 Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) students in Social Entrepreneurship and Development studies came together for a milestone event – the Capstone Project Pitching Presentation. This presentation marked the culmination of months of ambition stages, all the way to developing pitches for investors.
The presentation brought together students, faculty members and special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges, including: Mr Jason Cheung (Co-founder of Edutainment), Ms Joyce Wong (Co-founder and Director of Better Futures), Mr Edwin Li (Assistant Entrepreneurship Development Manager of Knowledge Transfer Sub-Office, The Education University of Hong Kong) and the course instructor Mr Cyron Chan (Executive Director of MakerBay).
Each team was tasked with identifying a social issue, researching, creating the solution and designing sustainable social enterprise models. The presentation served as the final platform to showcase their work as academic projects and viable, scalable interventions to create lasting social impact.
🎉 Congratulations to our winning teams:
🥇 1st Place – Neuroplay Labs, awarded cash prize of HK$3,000.
🥈 2nd Place – DigiZero, awarded cash prize of HK$2,000.
🥉 3rd Place – Dream Portal, awarded a cash prize of HK$1,000.
We thank our SEDS students for their hard work, creativity, and commitment to making a difference.
Hong Kong faces various demographic challenges including an ageing society, decline in birth rate, middle-class brain drain, and talent and labour shortage. As early as 2002, a government task force recommended setting population policy targets to respond to changing demographic conditions and market situations. How has Hong Kong's population policy fared over the past two decades — to address demographic issues, reorganise and improve services, and groom and attract a broad range of talent necessary for social and economic development?
Congratulations to the Financial Education Team at SSPS (Prof. Christina Yu, Dr. Tan Weiqiang, Dr. Eric Law, Dr. Ray Lee) for winning the Bronze prize (Teaching Division) of IFEA 2024 by the Investor and Financial Education Council (IFEC) under the Security and Futures Commission (SFC).
The award-winning project is "On-Campus Project of "Training the Trainer" to enhance the Financial Well-being of the Hong Kong Society." The project aimed to equip student educators with financial knowledge and pedagogical skills, and to allow them to create educational materials and financial education activities on campus and in the community.
The Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies (SSPS) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), and the AspirE co-hosted the workshop entitled The challenges and future of transnational mobility from 27 February to 2 March 2025. The workshop attracted 36 academic researchers from 14 countries spanning from Asia, Europe, Oceania to North America, has drawn attention to the urgency of understanding challenges and opportunities of contemporary migration and mobility.
Dear Colleagues,
I am thrilled to share with you all that Dr Amanda Chu's innovative project titled, "Using an Automatic Speech Analytics Program (ASAP) to Perform Early Detection of Psychosocial Distress in Young People: Acoustic and Linguistic Analysis," has been awarded by the Health and Medical Research Fund with a funded amount of HK$968,520.
This remarkable outcome attests to Dr Chu's excellence in and long-term dedication to pursuing impactful research.
Please join me in congratulating Dr Chu on this well-deserved recognition and funding success. Her hard work and commitment to advancing healthcare research serve as an inspiration to us all.
Well done, Dr Chu!
Best,
Fox