President's Awards

The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer was established to recognise, encourage and reward individual academic/teaching staff members or teams who demonstrate the transfer of University-owned knowledge, expertise, know-how, skills or technology to society through outstanding KT activities, practices, cases or projects that lead to innovation, profitability, or economic or social improvements; as well as the academic, professional, social or policy impact of KT on education in the local, regional or international community. The Award committee considers evidence of excellence in KT in a variety of contexts, as listed below. The aim of the Award is to honour established individual academic staff members or teams who demonstrated excellence in KT in the two years preceding the Award.

Assessing the nominees (whether nominated by others or self-nominated) for the Award was a selection panel comprising Professor Stephen CHEUNG Yan-leung (President), Ms Sylvia CHAN May-kuen (lay Council member), Professor FUNG Tung (external member from a higher-education institution), Professor LUI Tai-lok, Vice President (Research and Development), Professor HUE Ming-tak (academic staff member elected by and from the Academic Board), Dr Stephen CHOW Cheuk-fai (Director of Knowledge Transfer) and Dr Gail YUEN Wai-kwan (recipient of the previous President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer).

The selection panel used the following criteria to assess the nominees:

Success in securing competitive external KT grants, funding, donations, or awards, and implementing KT activities, practices, cases or projects in the capacity of Principal Investigator;

The quality and quantity of their KT output;

Transference of University-owned knowledge, expertise, know-how, skills or technology to society through outstanding KT activities, practices, cases or projects;

Evidence of innovation, profitability, or economic or social improvements generated from their KT activities; and

The academic, professional, social and policy impact of their KT activities on education in the local, regional or international community.