Campus Digest

HKBU students participate in first European Union Top-up summer programme

01 Aug 2013

The summer programme enables students to have a better understanding of the EU The summer programme enables students to have a better understanding of the EU
The summer programme enables students to have a better understanding of the EU

 

Twenty-one HKBU students joined the first European Union Top-up summer programme in Brussels, the capital of the European Union (EU), to learn more about the EU. The five-day programme was organised by the European Union Academic Programme Hong Kong (EUAP) with the support of the EU and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels, of the HKSAR Government.

The group, together with students from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), participated in the summer programme in late June. They attended seminars in different policy areas, including human rights, green energy, European integration, Hong Kong-EU relations, drugs, etc., during which they had a discussion with EU officials. They paid a visit to the European Parliament and engaged in a dialogue with a Parliament member. In addition, they visited the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels, the College of Europe in Brugge which is one of EUAP’s academic partners, as well as the UNESCO world heritage sites in Brugge.

EUAP is a consortium of HKBU, HKU, CUHK and Lingnan University and co-financed by the EU.