Areas of Excellence Scheme - Thirteenth Round Exercise Funding Results

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Project Title	Participating UGC-funded Universities#	Approved Budget* (HK$ million)	Funding from the RGC* (HK$ million)
Proposals with Five-Year Budget
Centre for Plant Vacuole Biology and Biotechnology	CUHK, HKBU, HKU, HKUST, PolyU	87.777	75.000
The Study of Topological and Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials	HKUST, CUHK, HKU	65.415	58.874
Total (Two projects)		153.192	133.874
Exploratory Proposal with One-Year Budget
Optimizing Early Childhood Development of Children from Low-Resource Settings by Leveraging Technology and Biological Data	CUHK, HKU, PolyU	-	10.000
Total (One project)		-	10.000

CUHK: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
HKBU: Hong Kong Baptist University
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 two projects with five-year budget in AoE Scheme 2025/26 is $134 million. The remaining $19 million of the approved budget will be matched by the universities concerned. For the exploratory project, the RGC’s funding allocation is $10 million and the university matching is subject to a revised one-year budget plan to be submitted by the project team which requires approval from the relevant Committee.