“For Our Future” Scholarship 2024-25 (For bachelor’s and master’s degree students) (Deadline: 11 November 2024)

The Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation is offering the ‘For Our Future’ Scholarship to local students in recognition of their academic studies and contributions to society through financial support that enables them to achieve their goals and aspirations. Successful candidates will be those students who have demonstrated excellent performance in their academic studies, personal development (sports, arts and music, etc.) and social services. They are also expected to have a strong commitment to Hong Kong and a desire to continue serving society after graduation.

Up to 15 scholarship awards at HK$50,000 each will be offered in the 2024-25 academic year for eligible students from the 14 Hong Kong educational institutions. HKBU will nominate up to 2 students to compete with students from other local universities/tertiary educational institutions for the awards. For details, please refer to the information note here.

The awardees of the scholarship will automatically become a member of the ‘For Our Future Scholarship’ Alumni Club and must join the Foundation’s YO PLACE as a member. Please find the detailed information about the ‘For Our Future Scholarship’ Alumni Association’ and ‘YO PLACE’ in the Appendix of the information note. 

ELIGIBILITY

The Scholarship will be awarded to local full-time undergraduate students (year 2 and above) or master's degree students aged 18-40 studying in any disciplines of study. Applicants should have attained an annual GPA of 3.30 or above in the academic year 2023-24 with outstanding academic projects, personal developments (in sports, art, music, etc.), active participation in social services, and good leadership skills. For senior entrants and first-year master students, they should have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above out of 4.0 from their previous sub-degree or undergraduate studies.

APPLICATION

The application form can be downloaded here. The form for “Recommendation Letter” can also be downloaded here. This recommendation letter has to be completed by the applicant's faculty or academic department. These forms are fillable. Please TYPE in the form.

1. Save your completed application form together with scanned copies of all required supporting documents listed in Annex B of the application form as ONE PDF file. Name your PDF file in the format of "For Our Future_student ID_full name" (e.g. For Our Future _20241111_Chan Tai Man). We may not be able to identify your submission if you do not name your file correctly.
2. Please make sure all scanned documents are clear and legible. Any parts that are missing, unclear, and incomprehensible will NOT be considered.
3. You may not need to scan the documents in the highest/top quality if standard quality suffice. Your PDF file should NOT exceed 25MB.
4. Login to our “Documents Upload Platform” at https://sfa.hkbu.edu.hk/supporting_docs/ with your SSOid. Choose and click “For Our Future Scholarship 2024-25 (For bachelor’s and master’s degree students)” in the menu to upload the documents. We will NOT be able to receive your documents if you choose another scheme name, so please click the scheme name carefully. The “Documents Upload Platform” will close automatically at the application deadline 11:59 pm of 11 November 2024 (Monday). You will receive an auto-email from the system upon successful upload of your PDF file.
5. To avoid being late, you should upload your PDF well before the deadline, as there may be unexpected technical errors/difficulties that require you extra time to solve. Note that the submission time is subject to our system’s clock on the website, which may or may not be the same as your watch, and the Office of Student Affairs has the discretion to make final judgments on whether the application is considered late.

Partial submissions/late applications will NOT be considered. You should ONLY attach relevant supporting documents with your application form. 

Due to very limited nomination quota, only shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an internal panel interview at HKBU tentatively scheduled in early December 2024. Suitable candidates will then be recommended to the Foundation for their final selection. The Foundation will conduct a preliminary selection interview in January 2024 and a final interview in mid-late February 2025. If you unable to attend the face-to-face interviews in person Hong Kong during December 2024 to March 2025, please do not apply.

Results of the application will be announced in March 2025. The Scholarship will be awarded at the Award Presentation Ceremony to be held tentatively in mid-to-late March 2025. Absence from the Award Presentation Ceremony may mean forfeiture of the scholarship.

Note that this Scholarship requires open competition with students from other tertiary institutions. The award for HKBU students is not guaranteed.

Please click here for general tips on completing scholarship application forms.

Faculty members are welcome to encourage eligible students to apply.

ENQUIRY

For enquiries, please feel free to contact us at 3411 2311 or by email to sfa@hkbu.edu.hk