Nurturing Innovation and Design Intelligence to Meet the Globalized Community
Principal Supervisors

Professor Chun Ka Wai Cecilia
(CLEAR)
Duration

2 years & 6 months
Approved Budget

HK $596,829.00
 
  • Abstract

Abstract

‘Innovation and Design’ (I and D) and ‘Global citizenship and Social enterprisingness’ (GC and SE) are two University-wide themes for materializing across different domains. To support these two themes, CLEAR obtained funding from TDLEG (2016-19) to promote a culture of innovation and social enterprisingness among students.

Built on the success and valuable experience gained in the 16-19 project, CLEAR intends to sustain student interest and enthusiasm by requesting for financial support for a follow-up project. Similar to the previous project, the proposed project aims at nurturing innovative minds by supporting and encouraging students to put forward their explorations and experiments focusing on one or more of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The project will work on the following initiatives:

  • Establishing a community of practice on promoting innovation among teachers who are interested in encouraging out of the box thinking and promoting curiosity, critical thinking, deep understanding, and creative brainstorming in their courses;
  • Establishing a community of students who demonstrated outstanding performance in the student challenge last year to be student ambassadors;
  • Organising training workshops for teachers and students on design tools, creative tools and their application, curriculum design and pedagogies conducive to promoting innovative and creative minds;
  • Organising a student competition to encourage students to explore, experiment and put in practice new ideas to solve problems by developing technology-based prototypes or social innovation plans;
  • Providing individual structured coaching for each shortlisted team;
  • Organising a student exposition to showcase the entry projects, and disseminate to the student community the products of innovation and design;
  • Conducting de-briefing sessions to enable each team to crystalize and transfer their experience in the journey of innovation to other contexts; and
  • Enriching the webpage built from the previous project for dissemination purposes.