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Lingnan University is new to the idea of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E). Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative (LEI) is a platform newly established in at Lingnan University which aimed that aims to empower entrepreneurs, innovators, and inventors to take action for inclusive growth. However, students and faculty members may not pay attention to this platform , which may not be able to enrich the I&E ecosystem in the university. A 5-year campaign can be launched to improve the I&E ecosystem, including promotion and students student activities. Promotion The promotion has to be made to raise people 's awareness on of I&E in at Lingnan University, as well as enhancing enhance students' creativity and ideas for starting their own business businesses by organising organizing different activities.
==Promotion and Student Activities 2020/21==Eating More Green====''To foster innovation and entrepreneurship Considering the various food options that exist at Lingnan University, we believe it is important for each individual to explore and figure out his/her own passion. Without a meaning in life or our work, it might be exhausting and stressful to continue, there are not to mention to spark creativity and change the world. This is why we approach our targets to see if they are happy any food sets offered with the current livespure vegetables, if they want we would like to pursue something more, if they are motivated to make set up a difference and how might Green Gate that offers only vegetable sets with lower prices here. The steps that we support them.'' planned are as follows:
#Needs Assessment: Conduct surveys and focus groups to understand the specific needs and preferences of the student population regarding vegetarian meals.
#Partnerships: Forming partnerships with local suppliers and vegetarian food brands to source high-quality ingredients at competitive prices.
#Staff Training: Training canteen staff on preparing and handling vegetarian meals to ensure high standards of hygiene and quality.
#Pilot Phase: Launch a pilot phase to test the Green Gate concept, gather feedback, and make necessary adjustments before a full-scale rollout.
#Evaluation and Expansion: Regularly evaluating the success of the Green Gate through student feedback and sales data. Based on the evaluation, the initiative may be expanded to include more vegetarian options and additional services.
The Green Gate at Lingnan University’s canteen represents a significant step towards creating a more inclusive and sustainable campus environment. By providing affordable and nutritious vegetarian meals, the university is catering to its students'''Survey with Lucky Draw via Mass Email'''diverse dietary needs and promoting a healthier and more environmentally conscious lifestyle. The initiative underscores Lingnan University’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability.
To address these issues, we proposed the creation of an online platform that connects students with tutors, who are also students that have completed the course within the past two to three semesters. These student tutors would be required to provide their grades for the course they wish to teach, along with their name, major, and language proficiency.
====Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign====To effectively promote entrepreneurship, we co-host raise the awareness of Lingnan University's female students about breast cancer and highlight the importance of early detection and prevention while creating a supportive environment in which Lingnan University's male students can contribute to it. The campaign aims to empower and educate female students and their knowledge about their health. It can encourage them to take proactive steps toward their health and build an interactive game workshop for environment where female students with Lingnan start-upcan feel comfortable and confident to discuss their health concerns and seek advice from others, '''StoreTruck''' society and Youth Dreamerthe university, '''Tung Wah Hospitalas it fosters a great sense of community engagement among young girls.''' Through It can enhance the game settings leadership and rules, participation of female students get to know more local news in their rights for health and well-being while achieving a developed community in which males play a crucial part in protecting female health and needs such as themselves. With the difficulties faced by farmers where collaboration and involvement of students, the innovation such as agricultural technology university can step perform and promote the strong empowerment of female students towards their bright future in to improve the livelihoodsociety.
====Accessibility of Sanitary Products====
Until 2024, there are no convenience stores or markets within Lingnan University, meaning that if female students and staff need tampons or pads, they must walk to Fu Tai. While it is not that far, it can be inconvenient during urgent situations. In Hong Kong, it's still uncommon for public restrooms to provide sanitary products, which adds to the challenges many women face regarding menstrual health. This project explores options for providing sanitary products on campus to help ease period poverty. We are considering installing vending machines in female restrooms over the whole campus that would charge a small fee (HKD 0.5 - 1) for single-use products, with payments made via Octopus card to promote cashless transactions. The pilot trial would take place in the canteen floor bathroom as it is the most used bathroom by staff, students, and guests throughout the whole campus. We recognize the importance of accessibility to sanitary products and wish to generalize this initiative to ensure that at least one female bathroom in each building on campus is equipped with these vending machines. This will provide a more convenient solution for all female students and staff, addressing the urgent need for menstrual health resources across the university and society.
==Promotion and Student Activities 2022/23==
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''This year’s cohorts are focusing on three major themes to pursue innovation and entrepreneurship at Lingnan University, which are students’ and faculty members’ Mental Health, Cultural Inclusiveness, and to help our Lingnan members to improve our school’s catering quality. We hope that our actions could help and support the members in Lingnan.''
====Food Around the World====[[File:Food Workshop Poster.jpg|thumb|Food Around the World Poster|link=Special:FilePath/Food_Workshop_Poster.jpg]]To raise promote cultural inclusiveness in the awareness of campus as well as to bridge the gap between international and local students about the importance of finding a meaning in life rather than just being "busy", we have filmed plan to hold a short promotional video "Are you busyworkshop series where students will learn how to make cuisines from different parts of the world.In this activity we emphasis peer teaching..? " It aims This means that instead of inviting culinary professionals to connect teach students who may feel busy all the time without , we will be inviting a purpose local or just exhausted. It is hoped that we get them international student/s to pause share a traditional or popular delicacy from their own country and reflect give a bit about being "busy" which might be a time prioritydemonstration on how to make it in front of other students. We used this channel believe that peer learning is a great way to attract increase interaction among local and international students' interests in our project and capture students' situations they would also get to learn about each other’s cultures in the university stakeholdersprocess. The first workshop we organized was led by UIF member Angela Arcay where she shared a popular Philippine dessert called Mango Float, made only with mangoes, graham crackers, and cream.
====Opinion Booth on Canteen Menu====
In order to improve the quality of meals for employees and students, we plan to launch a collection of offline and online opinions. The purpose is to integrate the collected opinions and communicate with the canteen company to modify the existing menu so that the variety and price of the menu are more suitable for the needs of employees and students. We hope to build such a communication platform to jointly improve the campus life experience of staff and students and to convey the collected views to the university's stakeholders.
====Food Cards @ Lingnan====
To tackle the low efficiency of food ordering in the Lingnan Canteen and eventually enhance the overall catering quality, we plan to implement a food card scheme in the canteen to say goodbye to long queues. We no longer need long waits to order tour meals and save you time by combining our Lingnan student id card with a money deposit function that may even allow us to have a new payment method around the whole campus. We hope that launching our food card will have more accessible repair contacts within the campus and increase our sense of belonging at school. No more worries that your Octopus deposit card couldn’t be reloaded on campus, your food card does!<br />
==Promotion and Student Activities 2020/21=='''Engagement Booth To foster innovation and entrepreneurship at Lingnan University, we believe it is important for each individual to explore and figure out his/her own passion. Without a meaning in life or our work, it might be exhausting and stressful to continue, not to mention to spark creativity and change the world. This is why we approach our targets to see if they are happy with Free CV Photo-shooting Services'the current lives, if they want to pursue something more, if they are motivated to make a difference and how might we support them.''
'''Tea Time TalkSurvey with Lucky Draw via Mass Email''' [[File:Survey Poster.png|thumb|388x388px|Online Survey with Lucky Draw|link=Special:FilePath/Survey_Poster.png]]To facilitate understand students' needs in life planning support, we have conducted a personal, survey mainly ask about their satisfaction in-depth and quality conversation with studentsthe current status, we are having regular "tea time talk". Students would enjoy whether they have a free nice cup of tea or coffee dream and they are welcomed whether the school's resource is effective. The survey was sent to share their struggles like heavy study load, no concrete graduation planthe whole school by '''Lingnan Entrepreneurship and Innovation (LEI)''' department on behalf of University Innovation Fellows (UIF). A lucky draw with ten HK$50 supermarket coupons was given as incentives for the students. We believe through talking with people who experienced or are experiencing their own struggles, we may feel comforted used the mass email as an opportunity to promote University Innovation Fellows and thus gain a new perspective. It is our mission to get people continue to be motivated, to search for a meaningas well. This tea time talk provides a safe place It also served as an educational purpose where like-minded people students can support each other for the long termreflect a bit about their lives before our official functions. [[File:Function 21.jpg|thumb|Sharing of the interview with local farmer|link=Special:FilePath/Function_1.jpg]]
'''Offline Engagement Activities'''
To effectively promote entrepreneurship, we co-host an interactive game workshop for students with Lingnan start-up, '''StoreTruck''' and Youth Dreamer, '''Tung Wah Hospital.''' Through the game settings and rules, students get to know more local news and needs such as the difficulties faced by farmers where the innovation such as agricultural technology can step in to improve the livelihood.
'''Promotional Video'''
To raise the awareness of the students about the importance of finding a meaning in life rather than just being "busy", we have filmed a short promotional video "Are you busy...? " It aims to connect students who may feel busy all the time without a purpose or just exhausted. It is hoped that we get them to pause and reflect a bit about being "busy" which might be a time priority. We used this channel to attract students' interests in our project and capture students' situations to the university stakeholders.
'''Engagement Booth with Free CV Photo-shooting Services'''
To better engage the students and visualize the students' needs in life planning in the campus, we have scheduled a day to set up a booth in Skylight, an open area where the majority of Lingnan students must walk pass everyday. By writing your dream on a memo paper and sticking it on the engagement board which indicates their confidence in achieving it, and interact with us, they can get a free photo-shooting services. If they have not thought about their dreams, they may also write about their feelings towards their current status such as satisfied/ frustrated... Through this offline promotion, we aim at making more students recognize University Innovation Fellows and getting them to join our follow-up activities.
'''Tea Time Talk'''
To facilitate a personal, in-depth and quality conversation with students, we are having regular "tea time talk". Students would enjoy a free nice cup of tea or coffee and they are welcomed to share their struggles like heavy study load, no concrete graduation plan. We believe through talking with people who experienced or are experiencing their own struggles, we may feel comforted and thus gain a new perspective. It is our mission to get people continue to be motivated, to search for a meaning. This tea time talk provides a safe place where like-minded people can support each other for the long term.
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==Promotion==
<p style="text-align: justify;">Realizing the problem that there aren’t enough promotion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Lingnan, our group also come up with some possible solutions and ideas, one of them is to print advertising information of I&E on the takeaway lunchbox in canteen. Since, there is only one canteen in Lingnan, most of the students usually have lunch or buy takeaway lunches there. We discover that the takeaways lunchboxes have a lot of empty spaces in fact and it would be wasteful if students just throw them away. Therefore, we come up with the idea that we could print some advertising information on the lunchbox, so that whenever students by takeaways lunches, it may arouse their interest.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Regarding the process of launching this project. We would first design an attractive and informative cover for the advertising, then we would contact school office and canteen to seek their approval. Once we get the approval, we would then contact the company which produce the current lunchboxes in canteen, send them our design and print them out. We hope that this project would be a short-term one, which we spend not more than a year to finish it.<br /><br />[[File:UIF Lingnan university.jpeg|300px|thumb|center|link=Special:FilePath/UIF_Lingnan_university.jpeg]]</p>
====Social Media Promotion ====
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">Social media plays a crucial role in student's life. They spend a lot of time on social media, paying attention on those platforms. We think it could be a effective way to </span><span style="font-size: small;">communicate with students and reach out to them instead of the more traditional way of engaging students. And as a result, it could help promoting activities organised by University. Starting a social media account could create a more easy-going image. Besides the platform could act as be the center of information about I&E in lingnan. So students can save the time searching for different opportunites on doing something more useful.</span></p>
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==Student Activities==
====Mentorship Programme====
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lingnan University puts emphasis in strengthening the bonding between current undergraduate students and Lingnan alumni. Aiming at raising the awareness in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Lingan community, a mentorship program could be launched for undergraduate students from all disciplines. Some Lingnan alumni in entrepreneurial sector and other successful start-up founders are invited to be mentors for Lingnan students. This program serves as a platform for both parties to share their creative thoughts. Not only mentees can seek advice from I&E perspective from their mentors, but mentors also can share their personal experience in launching a creative business to their mentees. A series of interactive activities will be arranged for both mentors and mentees to establish a close relationship and get a deep understanding towards innovative entrepreneurship. These help students who are potentially interested in establishing start-up company to acquire first-hand information and help stimulate students’ creative mindsets. The I&E ambience in Lingnan could be greatly enhanced.<br /><br />[[File:Mentorship program.png|300px|thumb|center|link=Special:FilePath/Mentorship_program.png]]</p>
====I&E Study Tour====