17 Jan 2024
HKMU's first Hackathon to cultivate students' creativity and entrepreneurial mindset
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) held its first “HKMU Hackathon” recently, attracting about 100 students to participate in the event, which provided a series of pre-competition networking and training workshops to nurture the students' creative ideas...
16 Jan 2024
Assistant Professor of the School of Arts and Social Sciences Dr Lok-yin Law has recently been awarded over HK$80,000 from the Korea Studies Grant of the Academy of Korean Studies. The funding will support his research project, namely “Exploring New Frontiers in Yŏnhaengnok Studies: Unveiling the Spatial and Visual Dimensions of Qing-Chosŏn Relations”...
16 Jan 2024
HKMU signs MoU with Yau Lee to nurture construction professionals and promote applied research
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) and Yau Lee Holdings Limited (Yau Lee) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today (16 January), marking a significant step towards more comprehensive collaboration. The partnership will span a broad spectrum of areas, including student internships and placements, supervision of students' final-year projects, faculty and researcher exchanges, knowledge transfer, and applied research...
13 Jan 2024
教育局本月公布應用科學大學發展路線圖 涵蓋條件及準則 (in Chinese)
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7 Jan 2024
The inaugural Hong Kong Symposium of Laboratory Medicine, organised by Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) in collaboration with the Hong Kong Society for Medical Laboratory Science, was successfully held yesterday (6 January). As the first major academic exchange event in celebration of HKMU's 35th anniversary, the symposium received an overwhelming response, attracting about 250 participants, including experts, academics, researchers, and industry and government representatives...
3 Jan 2024
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU)'s School of Nursing and Health Studies received HK$20.3 million from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to support a project titled “Jockey Club 'BaMa Chill Club' Perinatal Support Project”. This initiative focuses on providing depression screening for pregnant women and their spouses, along with services for parents and caregivers. It aims to offer one-stop, comprehensive and personalised support to enhance their mental health, strengthen the training of healthcare professionals, and promote public education....
1 Jan 2024
HKMU holds National Flag-Raising Ceremony on New Year's Day
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) held a National Flag-Raising Ceremony today (1 Jan) on its Jockey Club campus. Council members, senior management, staff and student representatives participated in the ceremony to wish for the prosperity of the country and the continued substantial development of Hong Kong in the coming year....
27 Dec 2023
The Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration of Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA) and The Institute of ESG & Benchmark (IESGB) to support and foster talent development in the fields of financial technology (FinTech) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)....
22 Dec 2023
The School of Arts and Social Sciences at Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) recently established collaborative partnerships by signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with two esteemed schools of universities in China. These agreements were forged with the School of Humanities at Shanghai Normal University, and the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University. The primary objective of these collaborations is to jointly nurture and cultivate talents in the fields of literature and creative writing....
21 Dec 2023
As public awareness of environmental protection grows in Hong Kong, food waste is becoming an increasing concern, thus creating demand for food waste recycling and reuse. If large amounts of food waste are not treated properly, it may contaminate the environment. The “anaerobic co-digestion” of food waste and sewage sludge produces biogas, but the biological activity of the digestion process requires close monitoring to ensure the smooth operation of “anaerobic digestion”, along with the production of biogas. Hong Kong Metropolitan University's (HKMU) School of Science and Technology has developed a “microfluidics analytical device” to monitor the bioactivity of “anaerobic digestion” in real time and learn about the impact of food waste on the “anaerobic digestion” of sewage sludge. Hence, it will help improve the efficiency of waste decomposition and generate renewable energy to convert waste into energy....
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