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.
香港教育大学社会科学与政策研究学系于2月27日至3月2日联同AspirE联合举办 “The challenges and future of transnational mobility”工作坊。工作坊吸引来自亚洲、欧洲、大洋洲及北美洲共14个国家，36位学者参与。
欧盟驻港澳办事处主任卢效伟大使、香港教育大学副校长（研究与发展）陈智轩教授、博文及社会科学学院院长李伟强教授、社会科学与政策研究学系署理系主任胡智勇副教授出席2月28日举行的开幕典礼。卢效伟大使提到欧盟致力与香港紧密合作，共同应对有关移民的问题。而Horizon Europe研究计划提供独特机会，促进知识交流、推动创新，并共同应对移民所带来的挑战。
陈智轩副校长在致词时欢迎来自世界各地的与会者出席。他认为，透过举办此工作坊，一众青年学者及国际知名学者互相交流，在会议上分享见解及研究成果，促进对跨国流动、移民政策及相关议题的探讨。
为期两日的专题讨论涵盖社会网络图谱、跨国联系与移民网络，以及技术移民与人才政策为主题。客席研究讲座教授、前副校长（研究与发展）吕大乐教授JP、胡智勇副教授，及学系副主任（研究）陈洁华副教授亦出席工作坊，为两日专题讨论担任讨论嘉宾及主持。
AspirE项目首席研究员、比利时法语区科学研究基金会研究员、布鲁塞尔自由大学高级讲师Asuncion Fresnoza-Floz博士；意大利团队首席研究员、米兰大学Paola Bonizzoni教授；芬兰团队首席研究员、芬兰科学院研究员、坦佩雷大学高级讲师Mari Korpela博士；菲律宾团队首席研究员、Scalabrini Migration Center主任、Asian and Pacific Migration Journal编辑Maruja M.B. Asis博士担任第二日专题讨论的讨论嘉宾。这场促进了国际化与包容性的跨国、跨文化学术交流，并将持续成为本系的标志性特色。
香港教育大学社会科学与政策研究学系于2月27日至3月2日联同AspirE联合举办 “The challenges and future of transnational mobility”工作坊。工作坊吸引来自亚洲、欧洲、大洋洲及北美洲共14个国家，36位学者参与。
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