S.I. Leadership Award: Project Presentation Day & List of Winners 

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Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK has introduced the S.I. Leadership Award for application by the CUHK students and alumni who are interested in social innovation.  This award, paired up with training activities and team coaching, serves to encourage participants to advance existing services or products to meet social needs.  The winning projects will each receive a maximum of HK$80,000 as seed money.

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In the last academic year, altogether 21 teams went through a half-year training and coaching.  At the end, seven teams were shortlisted and were invited to attend the Project Presentation Day held on 27 June 2020 to introduce their projects to the judging panel comprised of the following:

 

    Ms. Fermi WONG (founder of Hong Kong Unison)

    Mr. Spencer MA (Registered Social Worker)

    Prof. WONG, Hung (Director, Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK)

    Dr. Claire WANG (Centre Administrative Secretary, Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK)

 

The judging panel gave the teams valuable advice on their project ideas, feasibility and level of social impact.  After serious consideration, the list of winners of the S.I. Leadership Award is set out below:

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S.I. Leadership Award:

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• FlipMusic.HK

Through the flipped classroom (online + offline) approach, the project aims to bring music instrumental learning opportunities available to the disadvantaged groups with a more affordable price. The advanced learners benefited from the programme can in turn teach the beginners to build their learning communities in the future.

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• Think Pig Digital

Think Pig Digital is a digital marketing organization to provide affordable and high-quality digital marketing training and support service to local social enterprises, helping them to strengthen their market competitiveness.

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S.I. Leadership Social Innovation Award:

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• SciTouch

SciTouch adopts the multisensory teaching and learning approach to help various types of students, particularly the ethnic minority students to learn science subjects.

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• Bringing Love and Peace in Home as Workplace

The project will provide training course and consultation on “non-violence communication” and spiritual growth to the employers of domestic helpers, aiming to improve the relationship between domestic helper and the employer family and to create a harmonious family / working environment, which will foster overall well-being and a loving and peaceful society.

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For more information about the S.I. Leadership Award, please click here to visit the Facebook page of Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK.  If you have any enquiry, please contact Ms. Chan of this Centre at ysbc@cuhk.edu.hk (Email).