HKSYU obtains more than HK$10 million research funding from Research Grants Council

 

Hong Kong Shue Yan University (HKSYU) has been successful in obtaining HK$10.32 million in funding for nine research projects under the Research Grants Council (RGC)’s 2020/2021 Competitive Research Funding Schemes (CRFS) for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector.

 

Professor CHAN Ching, Selina, Associate Academic Vice President (University Research), said that among the nine successful research proposals, six are funded under the Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), two are under the Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) and one is under the Institutional Development Scheme (IDS) Collaborative Research Grant (see table).

 

Regarding the subject areas of the six successful FDS projects, two are in the “Business Studies”, two are in the “Humanities and Social Sciences”, and the other two are in the “Engineering” and “Biology & Medicine” respectively.