IIF KT Programme Projects - Business & Economy, Raising Professional Standards

Developing a play-based, emotion-regulation training programme for preschoolers in Hong Kong

- To equip preschoolers with emotion-regulation skills and enhance their socioemotional development  
- To promote the understanding of young children’s emotional needs and regulation among parents and teachers

Target beneficiaries: Kindergarten teachers, young children and their parents
Project Leader: Prof Vivian LUN, Department of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences

Constructing a “Carbon Neutrality Index” for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Hong Kong

To develop a Carbon Neutrality Index for SMEs and help them identify their performance related to carbon emissions and ultimately achieve carbon neutrality

Target beneficiaries: SMEs, policy-makers and business associations
Project Leader: Prof LIANG Liping, Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies, Faculty of Business

Promoting the Hong Kong-Mainland Economic Integration Index for policy analysis and discourse

To promote the application of the Hong Kong-Mainland Economic Integration Index as a tool of policy analysis to researchers, analysts and public policy-makers 

Target beneficiaries: Industrial analysts, policy analysts and business practitioners
Project Leader: Prof CUI Geng, Department of Marketing and International Business, Faculty of Business

Cognitive profile and neural characteristics of gifted and typically developing students

- To explore the cognitive profile and neural characteristics of both gifted students and typically developing students
- To help the education sector and NGOs in developing effective training programmes to improve the learning competence of gifted and typically developing students 

Target beneficiaries: Schools, NGOs, students and parents
Project Leader: Prof Kelvin LUI, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences

Acoustic-based contact-free gesture recognition for human-computer interaction

To design a room-scale gesture recognition system with high recognition accuracy, high robustness and low-cost, supporting multi-user scenarios

Target beneficiaries: Gamers playing VR games, people with disabilities and the general public
Project Leader: Prof SHEN Jiaxing, Department of Computing and Decision Sciences, Faculty of Business

Expanding Hong Kong people’s space: Promoting cross-border employment and entrepreneurship in the Greater Bay Area

- To enhance public knowledge on employment opportunities and life information in the Greater Bay Area
- To promote cross-border youth entrepreneurship and retired living in the Greater Bay Area through study trips, training workshops and public seminars 

Target beneficiaries: The elderly, youth and general public
Project Leader: Prof HUANG Genghua, School of Graduate Studies

Transgelism: Promoting the concept and good practices of Chinese-English translation in Chinese-speaking communities

- To enhance Chinese-English translation teaching in mainland China through a series of workshops and small group discussions
- To contribute to the pedagogical repertoire of teaching Chinese-English translation in mainland China and beyond 

Target beneficiaries: Language and translation professionals, tertiary school teachers and students
Project Leader: Prof Isaac HUI, Department of Translation, Faculty of Arts

"Linking You to Innovation" Entrepreneurial Training and Internship Programme 2018

To enhance students’ entrepreneurial skills and knowledge through training classes and visiting startup business and companies of innovations in mainland China 

Target beneficiaries: Undergraduate and postgraduate students
Project Leader: Prof WEI Xiangdong, China Economic Research Programme, Faculty of Social Sciences

SmartCity: How big data reinvent Hong Kong digital future

To bring together practitioners, developers, data technologists, researchers and different stakeholders to discuss and share experiences in big data for smart city development in Hong Kong 

Target beneficiaries: Business and public utility companies 
Project Leader: Prof WONG Man-leung, Department of Computing and Decision Sciences, Faculty of Business

Pilot project - Extending ICOSA exercises for use in secondary and tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and developing countries

- To deliver proven English language materials to secondary and tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and developing countries/regions where access to internet is limited
- To enable educators to enhance English course materials and standards more effectively 

Target beneficiaries: Secondary and tertiary students in Hong Kong and developing countries/regions 
Project Leader: Mr Marc LEBANE, Centre for English and Additional Languages, Faculty of Arts

Promoting effective compliance and enforcement of Hong Kong's Competition Ordinance

To promote corporate compliance of Hong Kong's Competition Ordinance and effective implementation of Hong Kong's competition policy by enhancing the public awareness and understanding in various anti-competitive business practices and their detrimental effects on competition and consumers 

Target beneficiaries: Business sectors in Hong Kong including trade associations, professional organisations and consumer bodies 
Project Leader: Prof LIN Ping, Centre for Competition Policy and Regulation, Faculty of Social Sciences

Bridging research and practice: Enhancing the competiveness of Hong Kong businesses

To build closer links with relevant bodies in the communities and industries, and to transfer knowledge including research findings and managerial implications to them  

Target beneficiaries: Business and professional organizations such as the Hong Kong Institute of Marketing and the Hong Kong Management Association
Project Leader: Prof CUI Geng, Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies, Faculty of Business

HKMA Conference

Virtual pioneers – Creative, interactive methods of exploring literary narratives for secondary English students using simulation technology

- To introduce secondary students and teachers of literature in English to the virtual world through experiential "field trips" exploring literary narratives
- To inculcate awareness and expertise in imaginative and interactive methods for accessing literary narratives
- To inform future best practice utilising simulation technology in education 

Target beneficiaries: Secondary school teachers and students 
Project Leader: Prof Michael INGHAM, Department of English, Faculty of Arts

Executive e-Commerce and Internet Finance (FinTech) seminars/workshops for Hong Kong enterprises

To provide professional training in terms of IT, finance, business and management for employees and decision makers of private businesses 

Target beneficiaries: CXOs, organization leaders, managers of companies and IT staff 
Project Leader: Prof WONG Man-leung, Department of Computing and Decision Sciences, Faculty of Business

Commoditization of computer system: Online Programme Outcomes Management System (POMS)

To help higher education institutions to enhance efficiency of the quality assurance processes and to more easily identify areas where academic programmes are not meeting their goals 

Target beneficiaries: Universities applying for accreditation from or already accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and those using or planning to use Outcome-based Assessment
Project Leader: Dr Eugenia NG, Teaching and Learning Centre

Understanding and enhancing line maintenance operations in aviation - A pilot project for industrial collaboration

To design solutions to enhance line maintenance performance in the aviation industry and raise safety standards 

Target beneficiaries: Engineering quality assurance managers 
Project Leader: Prof Simon LI, Department of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences

“Linking You to Innovation” Internship Programme 2017 (Pre-Internship Entrepreneurial Training)

To enhance students’ entrepreneurial skills and knowledge through training classes and visiting startup business and companies of innovations in Hong Kong and mainland China 

Target beneficiaries: Undergraduate and postgraduate students 
Project Leader: Prof WEI Xiangdong, China Economic Research Programme, Faculty of Social Sciences

Internet Finance - Innovation fuel for industries

- To increase the awareness and understanding of Internet Finance development in Hong Kong and Mainland China
- To help improve the efficiency and competitiveness of Hong Kong enterprises via adopting internet finance technologies 

Target beneficiaries: Business companies in Hong Kong 
Project Leader: Prof LENG Mingming, Department of Computing and Decision Sciences, and Prof CUI Geng, Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies, Faculty of Business

Promoting effective e-learning modes in schools of Mainland China and Hong Kong

- To bring together education practitioners and policy-makers to share experiences on the use of technology in education
- To disseminate the findings from a large scale randomized experiment on the implementation of comprehensive e-learning models in a number of elementary and middle schools in the Mainland 

Target beneficiaries: Education Bureau officials, school principals and teachers in Hong Kong and Mainland China (mainly Nanchang and Zhaoqing) 
Project Leader: Prof WEI Xiangdong, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences

A public forum on Sino-Russian strategic relations

To educate the diplomatic, business and media communities of Hong Kong on the impact of Sino-Russian strategic cooperation 

Target beneficiaries: Diplomatic community and international business community in Hong Kong 
Project Leader: Prof ZHANG Baohui, Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

The new landscape of digital evidence, social media & cyber security: Quest for management control and corporate governance conference

To increase the business awareness of cybersecurity and put forward a new concept of incorporating digital forensic as corporate governance for SMEs and NGOs in Hong Kong  

Target beneficiaries: SMEs, NGOs, and secondary schools in the North West territory of Hong Kong 
Project Leader: Prof Alfred LOO, Department of Computing & Decision Sciences, Faculty of Business

Bereavement care training workshops

To better equip professionals and care-givers, in both theory and practice, for challenges in serving the bereaved through workshops on bereavement care and social media platform 

Target beneficiaries: Professionals in death-related professions, social workers, counsellors, nurses and care-givers 
Project Leader: Prof WONG Wai-ying, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts

Improving a personalised vocabulary learning system with artificial intelligence techniques

- To improve the personalised vocabulary learning system with AI techniques
- To facilitate the commercialisation and marketing of the system, and encourage the integration of AI techniques and education in Hong Kong 

Target beneficiaries: Secondary school and university students
Project Leader: Prof XIE Haoran, Department of Computing and Decision Sciences, Faculty of Business