Collaborations & Partnership
CityU's commitment to sustainability reaches beyond the campus and Hong Kong. Below are a few examples of our collaboration.
Hong Kong Sustainable Campus Consortium (HKSCC)
The Hong Kong Sustainable Campus Consortium (HKSCC) is a platform for the higher education institutions in Hong Kong to share information and best practices on sustainability related issues. Members include both academic and non-academic colleagues from the eight publicly-funded universities.
Business Environment Council
Business Environment Council Limited (BEC) is an independent, non-profit membership organisation, established by the business sector in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Observatory
CityU partnered with the Hong Kong Observatory using their many different datasets collected during Super Typhoon Mangkhut to create new media artworks that address the danger and damage of extreme weather through animation, film, experimental photography, sound and programming. The exhibition "Blown Away" at Tai Kwun Centre reached over 3,000 international visitors and the Open House at HKO reached over 15,000 students.
Hong Kong Airport Authority
CityU joins hands with the Hong Kong Airport Authority in enhancing the marine environment for the benefit of marine ecology, including Chinese White Dolphins by using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to build an automated detector for recognising Chinese white dolphins captured by video cameras during the vessel-based line transect survey.
Electrical and Mechanical Services Department
CityU develop droplet-based electricity generator (DEG) and related accessories at the site provided by EMSD. It is a device to harvest electricity from impinging water droplets, e.g. raindrops etc.
CityU School of Energy and Environment (SEE) and New World Development (NWD) join hands to Accelerate Net Zero Carbon by 2050
CityU SEE and New World Development Company Limited (“NWD”) concluded a MOU to accelerate the common ambition to achieve Science Based Targets by 2030 and Net Zero Carbon by 2050, echoing the HKSAR Government's own green target.
International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN)
CityU has joined the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) and commits to set concrete targets on sustainable campus development and facilitates knowledge-exchange among the ISCN community and with the broader public.
Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes
CityU is a member of the Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes, a global network of universities, research institutes and corporations that advances solutions to sustainability problems through research, development and capacity building.
Collaboration with Shanghai Jiaotong University and The University of Queensland
The collaboration is based on a project funded by the National Science Foundation, China (#72074148). The project is entitled "Target Setting, Policy Implementation and Comprehensive Effectiveness Improvement: An Empirical Research on the Air Pollution Prevention and Control of Mainland China".
"Make The Case" - East Asia - A Student Team Competition to Scale Solutions for Asia's Plastic Crisis
"Make The Case" - East Asia - A Student Team Competition to Scale Solutions for Asia's Plastic Crisis, is an Asia-wide student challenge organized in conjunction with the NGOs CAPP and Ocean Recovery Alliance. This is a student competition open to undergraduates and Master's students studying at East Asian universities. Student teams are challenged to uncover less-known projects that are reducing plastic waste and explore how they could be replicated elsewhere in the region.
Data Art for Climate Action (DACA2022)
DACA2022 is a dual-hub conference on interactive sonification and visualisation for climate science communication. Funded by Environment and Conservation Fund and School of Creative Media at City University in partnership with Hong Kong Observatory (Hong Kong), Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik, Kunstuniversität Graz and Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (Austria), and Frontiers Journal and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Privatstiftung (Switzerland).