Dreamer Lab Award 2022-23

Overview

“The Dreamer Lab Award” (DLA) aims to encourage university students to be daring to pursue Dreams, innovate and serve the Society. Through self-initiated social innovation projects, it promotes students’ leadership qualities and facilitates their personal growth. In addition, the award scheme encourages university students to address social issues in an innovative approach sustainably, to care the neglected group in the society and to build a better community with a 'dare to try' and 'never give up' spirit. The DLA awardees can actualise their dreams and address the social issues in Hong Kong through the subsidy.

The DLA is a yearly project organised by the Leadership Qualities Centre. Since its establishment, many students have turned their social innovation ideas into reality through our funding support. This year, we continue to encourage students’ creative ideas in bringing positive changes to the society. Please don't hesitate to share your ideas with us. 

「夢想實驗室」鼓勵大學生勇於尋夢，大膽創新，貢獻社會。透過讓大學生自主籌辦社創項目以實踐社會創新，期望提升大學生領袖素質和促進個人成長，並鼓勵他們以創新及可持續的方式，回應社會問題及需要，關懷社會上被忽略的一群，以「細心嘗試」及「永不放棄」的精神，建構更理想的社會。得奬者可獲得資助實行方案，讓同學實踐夢想，回應社會需要。

「夢想實驗室」是由領袖素質中心舉行的年度計劃，自成立計劃以來，資助不少學生實現他們的社創點子。今年，我們繼續鼓勵學生以創新想法為社會帶來正面的改變。請即報名，與我們分享你的的想法！

Types of Application

INDIVIDUAL Max. HK$10,000 subsidy for each selected individual entry Submit an individual application for a maximun subsidy of HK$10,000. The theme should correspond to the programme objectives and assessment criteria. If applicant’s proposal has gained subsidy from other source, s/he can still enroll for the DLA but the subsidy granted will not exceed the total cost of the proposal submitted. 個人組別 以一人為單位遞交申請，申請資助上限為HK$10,000。申請主題回應本計劃目的及評審準則。若申請者的方案已獲得其他資助，仍可申請本計劃，但能獲取之資助額將不多於申請計劃之總支出。

GROUP Subsidy ranges from HK$10,000 to HK$30,000 for each selected group enry Submit an application in a group of two or above (no maximum limit) for a maximum subsidy of HK$30,000. The theme should correspond to the programme objectives and assessment criteria. If applicant’s proposal has gained subsidy from another source, s/he can still enroll for the DLA but the subsidy granted will not exceed the total cost of the proposal submitted. 團體組別 二人或以上的團體單位，人數沒有上限，而申請資助上限為HK$30,000。申請主題回應本計劃目的及評審準則。若申請者的方案已獲得其他資助，仍可申請本計劃，但能獲取之資助額將不多於申請計劃之總支出。

* Each applicant can only submit one application, either as an individual or in a group. 
* 每位學生只能夠以個人或團體名義參賽。

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Assessment Criteria

*Prior consideration will be given to projects with entrepreneurial element (i.e. establishing social enterprise).

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Apply Now

To apply the Dreamer Lab Award 2022-2023, please submit an application form (in Hard Copy) and Presentation Slides (in PowerPoint) to us by 5:30 pm on 14 Oct 2022 (Fri).  Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. Please follow the guidelines below to submit application materials.

1. Application Form:

Application Form (Chi. version)Applicaton Form (Eng. version)

Please Download and Print Out the Application Form and submit to the counter of Leadership Qualities Centre by 5:30 pm on 14 Oct 2022 (Fri). Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. Please visit us in our opening hours.

Leadership Qualities Centre, Office of Student Affairs
Address: Room 401, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies,
                 Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University,
                 Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:30pm
Email: lqc@hkbu.edu.hk
Tel: +852 3411 7436

2. Presentation Slides

Please send us your presentation slides in PowerPoint format by email, with no more than 20 pages to lqc@hkbu.edu.hk, by 5:30 pm on 14 Oct 2022 (Fri). Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

In the proposal, you should include

• Self-introduction of applicant(s), and
• Introduction of the project objectives and content

Presentation Slides Requirement

Format: PowerPoint

Name: Please name the document with Applicant’s name and student id. (For example, Chan_Tai_Man_12345678).

For Group Application, please use the representative’s name and student id.

Language: Chinese or English

Please send us the document by 5:30 p.m. on 14 Oct 2022 (Fri).

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Past Awardees

19 - 20

Foodmula 2.0 4 students from the School of Chinese Medicine created a mobile application to provide users with health advices using Chinese medical theories. By a few clicks, the Apps can provide an evaluation of the users' body status and suggest suitable diet advices. This year, they submitted another application to enhance the system of the Apps, making its content become richer and more user-friendly.   Click here to read more!

StudyShare 3 non-local students developed a mobile application to provide a platform in fostering academic discussions and supporting peers with learning difficulties.

18-19

Sing The World The team secured our funding again this year to advance their service. Including improving the tutors' quality, recruiting more volunteers and providing new visual art classes. Like last year, They also continued to provide children from low-income families singing and English tutorials.

Foodmula 4 students from the School of Chinese Medicine created a mobile application to provide users with health advices using Chinese medical theories. By a few clicks, the Apps can provide an evaluation of the users' body status and suggest suitable diet advices based on Chinese medical theories. It helps promoting healthy lifestyles and Chinese medicine to public.

Siteseeing This group designed and implemented a puzzle-solving game in the community. The game is aimed to raise citizens' attention towards the livelihood of people with physical disabilities. This group also showed the importance of creating "Barrier-free Society" to public.

17-18

Grasswood This team focus on the issue of homelessness in Hong Kong. They implemented a project to empower homelessness in the community, through organizing woodworking tutorials and workshops for them. Homeless people could develop professional skills and meet with other social parties during this project. At the same time, this eliminated the negative stereotypes towards homelessness in the society.

The Renaissance of Stars Awardees focus on the nervousness and anxiety of secondary school students towards the public exam. They provided study materials and mock exams for secondary students to prepare. Hoping students could understand their own weaknesses and practise more to overcome. In addition, awradees organized career consultations with students, assisted them to clarify their study and career path after graduation.

Sing The World Awardees wanted to provide more learning opportunities for children from low-income families. They operated a children choir team to achieve this goal. This project provided children workshops of singing and english tutorials. This created valuable and interesting learning opportunities for students from low-income families.   There is a news article about the project, click here to read it!

Share a Dish Awardees wished to raise public concerns and eliminate the stereotypes towards refugees in Hong Kong. Therefore, they organized some activities with other parties, such as inviting some local families to cook meals for refugees. Through communicating with refugees, local citizens understood more about the difficulties that refugees faced. Refugees also felt being cared and warmth within the process.

Picture Book Publication Awardees published a picture book, using a jellyfish as the main character, which has similar characteristics with children with hearing loss, both are poor in hearing but sensitive to the world. The story is about a jellyfish interact with different animals within its journey. They hoped to gain society's attention to children with hearing loss, and wished people in the society can learn mutual respect.

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