Areas of Excellence Scheme - Ninth Round Exercise Funding Results

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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.