KE Spotlight - Community Engagement - HKU Knowledge Exchange

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2015

The Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards were introduced in 2011 in order to recognize each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organizations. Results of the 2015 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

HKU wins the Inaugural Louis Vuitton Supply Chain University Contest

"Team HKG", represented by the students of the HKU Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Business and Economics won the inaugural Louis Vuitton Supply Chain University Contest held earlier with its design on logistics distribution strategy. Students from six top universities in Europe, North America and Asia participated in the contest.

HKU School of Business principal lecturer set up Asia's first not-for-profit domestic helpers recruitment agency

Mr David Bishop, Principal Lecturer at the HKU School of Business, co-founded Fair Employment Agency (FEA), which has placed 49 domestic helpers with employers in Hong Kong without charging placement fees from helpers since September 2014. Mr Bishop set up the not-for-profit social enterprise in response to the abuse of an Indonesian helper made headlines. Helpers recruited by FEA do not have to pay any placement fee. The agency will charge employers service fees ranging from HK$2,000 to HK$7,500. The agency's corporate documents were drafted so that the founders cannot receive any windfall from profits. These will be directed back into the agency to expand its initiatives. The Fair Employment Campaign 2014/15, which aims to promote the concept of "fair employment" among HKU students, partnering firms and the public, is supported by the HKU Knowledge Exchange Fund granted by the University Grants Committee.