Strategic Topics Grant 2025/26 Funding Results
Project Title Participating
UGC-funded
Universities# 		Approved
Budget*
(HK$ million) 		Funding from the RGC*
(HK$ million)
Topic 1: Using Advanced Technology to Address Health Care Challenges
Embracing Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Upper and Lower Urinary Tract Assessment in Primary Care and Nurse Clinic Settings CUHK, HKU, HKUST, PolyU 35.0 31.5
An Integrated Technology Platform for Next-generation Cancer Immunotherapy - from Identification of Tumor Neoantigens to Development of Novel Therapeutic Vaccine Modalities CityU, CUHK, HKUST, PolyU 36.0 32.4
Topic 2: Striving towards Carbon Neutrality before 2050
Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area: Carbon Sequestration Capacity, Biogeochemical and Microbial Processes, and Control Mechanisms CUHK, EdUHK, HKU, HKUST 31.0 27.9
Topic 3: Establishing Hong Kong as the Leading Integrated Circuits, and Opto-electronics Innovation and Technology Hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Terahertz Photonic Chip for Integrated Sensing and Communications in the 6G Era CityU, HKU 22.0 19.8
Technology-Driven RISC-V AI Architecture Innovations for Emerging Embodied Robotics Systems CUHK, HKU, HKUST 20.0 18.0
Total (5 projects): 144.0 129.6
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 CityU: City University of Hong Kong
CUHK: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
EdUHK: The Education 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
* Exclusive of on-costs.