<span style="font-size:small;">There are many opportunities for faculty members to engage in service-learning and community-based research. The Office of Service-Learning supports the faculty development through training workshops, conferences, publications, retreats, as well as the annual US Delegation. It recognizes the faculty members' achievements through the Service-Learning Award and Mini-Grant, supporting them to continue their research and community involvement. As part of its mission to cultivate engagement, the OSL aims to help the faculty members in finding the resources they need to participate in Service-Learning opportunities, collaborate with others, or initiate a great idea.</span>
== <span style="font-size:larger;">OSL in Encouraging Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship </span><br/> ==
==== <span style="font-size:small;">''''LU Soc<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-Tech Development Schemespace: Build'‧'Chat'‧'Help'''pre-wrap;">Competition</span></span> ====
== <span style="font-size:small;">LU Soc<span id="docs-internal-Tech Development Scheme is a 5guid-034456f5-7fff-e87e-7df6-f5c4fb1a2c91"><span style="font-week family: Arial;training program which aims to develop our students’ innovation mindset and technology skills to make tangible products to impact our society. The program will cover learning on how to utilize interesting technology such as Arduinocolor: rgb(0, Raspberry Pi0, iBeacon and Charbot. It also generates innovative ideas into practical gargets to address social challenges.0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup Weekend Hong Kong Social Impact @ Lingnan University</span></span></span> ==
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id=== "docs-internal-guid-51fca677-7fff-318f-3510-7c33b89b1408"><span style="font-sizefamily: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:smallpre-wrap;">Mobile App Building WorkshopThe Startup Weekend Hong Kong @ Lingnan University is one of the Service-Learning projects that aim to nurture students’ understanding of Social Innovation. Students who studied in the Service-Learning course will implement their ideas and pitch in the Startup Weekend. Judges will give comments and suggestions for students to continue their S-L project in different forms like startups or social enterprise. The 3 winners of Startup Weekend Hong Kong @ Lingnan University will get a chance to enter the Semi-Final of Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge and other prizes.</span></span></span> ====
==== <span style="font-size:small;">Students can learn how to design<span id="docs-internal-guid-8c3057d9-7fff-6bb9-1aef-cbd673543bfb"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, build and polish a cloud0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-connected iOS and Android mobile app from scratch without any coding. The primary goal of the workshop is to strengthen students' capacity in promoting their innovative projects through digital channelwrap;">Asia Social Innovation Award 2020: Calling for Changemakers!</span></span></span>====
==== <span style="font-size:small;">Entrepreneurial Knowledge Transfer Fund <span id="docs-internal-guid-59d265a4-7fff-aa71-beb4-a7b2f14a170d"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(EKT51, 51, 51) Fund; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Break Grounds, Build Change, Birth Hope!</span> <span style===="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asia Social Innovation Award 2020 “New Urban” is now calling for groundbreaking ideas that transform social and environmental challenges into a positive force for urban growth. Join the 4-day impact programme in Hong Kong including a pitching competition, holistic entrepreneurship development, mentorship and networking to scale the impact of purpose-driven, people-centric innovations.</span></span></span>
==== <span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><br/> ==== ==== <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-82ee98b3-7fff-e3a3-9926-bc1997c80f26"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop</span></span></span> ==== <span style="color:#808080;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span>''''LU Soc-Tech Development Scheme: Building Our Own LU Ironman!" Workshops''' <span style="color:#808080;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">LU Soc-Tech Development Scheme is a 5-week training program which aims to develop our students’ innovation mindset and technology skills to make tangible products to impact our society. The program will cover learning on how to utilize interesting technology such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, iBeacon and Charbot. It also generates innovative ideas into practical gargets to address social challenges.</span></span> ==== <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a2fdd2-7fff-1a31-2440-9506b1a8b3b0"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'Mobile App Building Workshop</span></span></span> ==== <span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a2fdd2-7fff-1a31-2440-9506b1a8b3b0"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students can learn how to design, build and polish a cloud-connected iOS and Android mobile app from scratch without any coding. The primary goal of the workshop is to strengthen students' capacity in promoting their innovative projects through digital channel.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a2fdd2-7fff-1a31-2440-9506b1a8b3b0"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Funding</span></span></span> = <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a2fdd2-7fff-1a31-2440-9506b1a8b3b0"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation and Impact Fund (IIF) - Entrepreneurship Programme</span></span></span> = <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a2fdd2-7fff-1a31-2440-9506b1a8b3b0"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To encourage keep contributing to society with a high level of impact, the University encourages and supports faculty members and support Lingnan students to start their generate innovative ideas, create opportunities, and master risk and meaningful businessesfailure in the process. To this end, Lingnan University has provided the Entrepreneurship Knowledge Transfer Programme under the University’s Innovation and Impact Fund (EKTIIF) Fund is designed to enthusiastic support faculty members and students with to create a maximum amount of HK$20positive impact for society while developing the entrepreneurial capacity and spirit.</span></span></span> = <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e3e5b08-7fff-3ffb-5918-ebea4c73ca7c"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students Entrepreneurial Exploration Development (SEED) Fund</span></span></span> =<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.68; text-align: justify; margin-top: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e3e5b08-7fff-3ffb-5918-ebea4c73ca7c"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the generous donation from Lingnan Education Organization Limited (“Donor”) to the University,000 per projectthe “LEO Tse Kai Yui Memorial Fund” (嶺南教育機構謝啟睿紀念基金) offers grants for the SEED Fund Scheme. The primary purpose of the EKT SEED Fund is provides $5,000 grants and workspace to sponsor early-stage entrepreneurial plans involving current Lingnan students to develop prototypes . The grants are intended for new products use in prototype development and proof of a new concept customer discovery activities. These awards provide critical funding for high risk, high reward projects that will lead have great potential to a new servicechange the current status quo.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e3e5b08-7fff-3ffb-5918-ebea4c73ca7c"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, product 51); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students are encouraged to use SEED fund to implement entrepreneurial or businesssocial innovation projects developed in class in a real-world situation.</span></span></span><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
== <span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</span> ==