Project Background

The present world can be characterized as a system of global networks that enable and support the interactions between people required for trade, transactions, financial and intellectual commerce. This super complex world poses many challenges and opportunities for individuals and organisations. One of the challenges it creates for higher education institutions is how to develop graduates who are capable of succeeding in this globalised world, as professionals and citizens. This is often known as internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC). Intercultural competence, including the ability to live and work with people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds at home and abroad, is a crucial component of IoC and is important for all students. The University Grants Committee (UGC) sees internationalisation and engagement with Mainland China as the key to Hong Kong’s future and believes that it should be actively pursued by UGC-funded universities.

Triennium. The project, “Fostering the Integration of Local and Non-local Students for the Enhancement of Internationalisation and Engagement with Mainland China” supports staff across the three institutions to foster meaningful engagement between students from different backgrounds inside and outside of the classroom, and thereby to internationalise the student experience.

Initiatives from investigators and co-investigators to this project