Campus Digest

EUAP's e-Learning Project draws Hong Kong and European students together via interactive learning

07 Aug 2015

Winners of the grand prize earning the title of "Best Sustainability Ambassadors": Rachel Mok (second from left) and Brian So (second from right) from HKCCCU Logos Academy Winners of the grand prize earning the title of "Best Sustainability Ambassadors": Rachel Mok (second from left) and Brian So (second from right) from HKCCCU Logos Academy
Winners of the grand prize earning the title of "Best Sustainability Ambassadors": Rachel Mok (second from left) and Brian So (second from right) from HKCCCU Logos Academy

 

The European Union Academic Programme Hong Kong (EUAP) held a prize giving ceremony recently to conclude the Hong Kong-European Union (HK-EU) School e-learning project "Green Living and Sustainability in the Community" which brought secondary school students from Hong Kong and European cities together to conceive new ideas contributing towards a more sustainable community.

The eight-week long pilot e-Learning project was co-organised by EUAP and the European Studies Programme of HKBU. Over 200 students from nine Hong Kong schools and 12 schools from eight cities across four countries in Europe (Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain) took part in the project between March and June 2015. Through the exchange of ideas and research collaboration on topics such as "Plastics & Recycling", "Fashion & Toxic Issues", "City" and "Food", their awareness on sustainability was heightened.

During the ceremony, nine awards were presented to winners by Mr Lee Chi-hung, Chief Curriculum Development Officer (PSHE) of the Education Bureau of the HKSAR Government, Mr Paul Zimmerman, CEO of Designing Hong Kong and Dr Vivian Taam Wong, Chairperson of Friends of the Earth Hong Kong, together with Professor H Werner Hess, Deputy Director of the EUAP and Dr Tushar Chaudhuri, Programme Coordinator of the European Studies Programme of HKBU. The grand prize "Best Sustainable Community Project" was awarded to a successful team comprising two Hong Kong students, Brian So and Rachel Mok, from the HKCCCU Logos Academy, and three students from Institut Ernest Lluch, Barcelona, Spain.

A roving exhibition of the project will take place at the beginning of the new academic year across Hong Kong schools, where students and teachers will be able to understand the e-Learning project in greater detail.