Areas of Excellence Scheme - Twelfth Round Exercise Funding Results

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Project Title	Participating UGC-funded Universities#	Approved Budget* (HK$ million)	Funding from the RGC* (HK$ million)
Using Data to Transform Diabetes Care and Patient Lives	CUHK, PolyU	80.782	72.704
AI-Powered Surgical Robots	CityU, CUHK, HKU, PolyU	96.809	85.129
Frontier and Human-centric AI and Robotics Technology for Geriatric Care	CUHK, HKU, HKUST	88.481	78.127
Total		266.072	235.960

#	CityU: City University of Hong Kong CUHK: The Chinese University of Hong Kong HKU: The University of Hong Kong HKUST: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology PolyU: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
*	Inclusive of indirect costs / on-costs. The RGC’s funding allocation for the AoE Scheme 2024/25 is HK$236 million. The remaining HK$30 million of the approved budget will be matched by the universities concerned.