PROCORE - France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme - List of Funded Projects for 2020/2021
Project No. Project Title (English) Hong Kong Principal Investigator/University French Principal Investigator/Institution Funding Period (Year) Amount Awarded
by RGC
(HK$)
1st Year 2nd Year
F-CityU101/20 Electrocatalytic Dimerization of Renewable Carbonyl Feedstocks for Sustainable Personal Care Products and Fuels Production
Dr Lam Chun Ho / CityU Prof Darcel Christophe / University of Rennes 1 2 45,000 45,000
F-HKBU201/20 Large-scale modes of climate variability for regional extreme patterns in the Pearl and Seine river basins
Dr Chun Kwok Pan / HKBU Dr Fournier Matthieu / University of Rouen Normandy 2 43,200 43,200
F-HKBU204/20 Writing and performing theatre in France and Hong Kong (20th-21st Centuries) ---- Multicultural dramatic writing and its application on different social dimensions in the 21st Century
Dr Tong Yui / HKBU Prof Triau Christophe / University of Paris Nanterre 2 45,000 45,000
F-HKBU205/20 Transnational and Transdisciplinary Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Dr Tran Emilie / HKBU Prof Sermet Laurent / Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence (Sciences Po Aix) 1 125,963 -
F-CUHK403/20 Mobile Reconfigurable Cable-Driven Brick-Laying and Indoor Renovation Robot
Prof Lau Darwin Tat-Ming / CUHK Dr Caro Stéphane / CNRS No. 6004 2 45,000 45,000
F-CUHK404/20 From Industrial Waste to High-Value Chiral Fluoro-Organics via Chemo-, Regio-, and Enantioselective C–F Bond Activation
Prof Tsui Chit / CUHK Dr Cahard Dominique / University of Rouen Normandie 2 45,000 45,000
F-PolyU502/20 Investigating the Subjectivity of Decision Space Represented in the Prefrontal Cortex
Dr Chau Ka Hung Bolton / PolyU Dr Volle Emmanuelle / INSERM No.UMRS 1127 2 32,400 32,400
F-HKUST601/20 Characterization and immuno-toxicity of nanoparticles in urban aerosols in Hong Kong and France
Prof Wang Zhe / HKUST Dr Ling Wai Li / University of Grenoble Alpes Institute of Structural Biology 2 43,200 43,200
F-HKUST602/20 Fabrication and characterization of photo-aligned molecular motor/columnar mesogens based multifunctional devices for plastic electronics
Prof Srivastava Abhishek Kumar / HKUST Prof Singh Dharmendra Pratap / University of Littoral Opale Coast 2 30,600 30,600
F-HKUST603/20 Enhancing the performance of organic photovoltaics by combining GW method, machine learning, and ab initio molecular dynamics
Prof Pan Ding / HKUST Dr Rocca Dario / University of Lorraine 2 21,600 21,600
F-HKU702/20 User-Driven Asset-Centric Ecosystem for Democratizing Data Science & AI
Professor Cheng Reynold Chun-kong / HKU Professor Amer-Yahia Sihem / University of Grenoble Alpes 2 45,000 45,000
F-EdUHK801/20 Inclusive and Exclusive: Language Contact between Sinitic Languages and Altaic Languages
Dr Wang Cong / EdUHK Prof Dan Xu-song / Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) 2 27,000 27,000