Areas of Excellence Scheme - Ninth Round Exercise Funding Results
Project Title |
Participating
UGC-funded Universities# |
Approved
Budget* (HK$ million) |
Funding from the RGC* (HK$ million) |
---|---|---|---|
Centre for Medical Engineering of Molecular and Biological Probes | CityU, CUHK, HKBU, HKUST |
71.161 |
66.464 |
Aging, Skeletal Degeneration and Regeneration | CityU, CUHK, PolyU |
70.688 |
64.889 |
Meta-optics, Meta-acoustics and Meta-devices | HKU, HKUST, PolyU |
70.169 |
65.552 |
2D Materials Research: Fundamentals Towards Emerging Technologies | CityU, CUHK, HKU, HKUST, PolyU |
92.021 |
80.326 |
Total
|
304.039 |
277.231 |
# CityU: City University of Hong Kong
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 AoE Scheme 2020/21 exercise is around HK$277 million. The remaining about HK$27 million of the approved budget will be matched by the universities concerned.