S.I. Leadership Workshop (I)
The centre is going to launch the first phase of S.I. Leadership Workshop in this academic year in order to encourage participants to advance existing services or products to meet social needs. Participants will gain in-depth knowledge of the underprivileged and adopt people-oriented approach to address social challenges. Details are as follows:
Reflection on Poverty Issue in Hong Kong – The Vulnerable Groups
Date : 24 October 2019 (Thursday)
Speaker: Prof. Wong Hung (Director of Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK and Associate Professor of Department of Social Work, CUHK)
Language : Cantonese
Community Tour
Date : 2 November 2019 (Saturday)
Venue : Sham Shui Po
Content : To observe needs of the community and to examine its problems
Language : Cantonese
Global Vision of Social Innovation – Regional & Global Experience
Date : 7 November 2019 (Thursday)
Speaker : Mr. Yu Tsuen Kweun (Director of Service and Product, South and Southeast Asia of The Center for Child Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility) and Dr. Luk Tak Chuen (Project Co-ordinator of Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK)
Language : Cantonese
Design Thinking
Design Thinking & Social Innovation
Enrolment Deadline : 5 November 2019 (Tuesday)
Date : 20 Nov 2019 (Wed.)
Speaker : Prof. Alvin Yip
Language : Cantonese
(Founding Partner of CIRCUS, CIRCUS TRAM and CIRCUS ACADEMY, Visiting Professor and Vice Dean of City Design and Innovation at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Founder Director of Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation at PolyU Hong Kong 2008-2015)
From “Doing” to “Making” – Why should Everyone Start a Business?
The Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK organised
the S.I. Leaders Sharing on 17 October 2019 (Thursday). Ms. Zhang Jie-ping*, a veteran media personnel, delivered an inspirting sharing on “From ‘Doing’ to ‘Making’ – Why should Everyone Start a Business?”.
She believes that our lives are all journeys of creating new businesses. Establishing new business does not mean being free, earning a lot of money or being a boss, but instead, understanding and realizing your goals without hesitations. She therefore chose to study media in Hong Kong, established is unaffair, recorded the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong in 2014, operating Initium Media and the “decentralized” media company Matters. These are all milestones in her career and life. After her sharing she encouraged the audience that “entrepreneurs” have to be brave to make difficult decisions, bear risks and help others in self-realization.
Zhang Jie-ping is a media entrepreneur, a reporter and a wanderer travelling around Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. She is the founder of Matters, a decentralised writing platform, and visiting scholar of the International Visitor Leadership Programme of the U.S. Department of State. Zhang possesses 14-year experience in the media industry, and she is one of the founders of The Initium and “iSun Affairs Magazine”. She was awarded Journalist of the Year by The Society of Publishers in Asia in 2010.
Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK: Social Innovation Activities
The Centre will launch various activities to encourage participants to advance existing services or products to meet social needs. Through the activities like “Social Innovation Competition” and “Overseas Exchange”, participants will gain 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.
