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impact
today
leaders
tomorrow
companies we worked with
2023 - 2024 impact data
STUDENTS
121
students received valuable real-life experiences and developed practical skills vital to today's workplace.
HOURS
13,960
hours have been dedicated by students to start and assist social businesses in scaling their impact.
PARTNERS
40
social impact organizations have partnered up with the Impact Lab course to provide meaningful opportunities to youth.
iNTERNATIONALIZATION
By giving students the opportunity to support social ventures - each committed to different Sustainable Development Goals - Impact Lab enables students to become global citizens. From their supervisors to their team members, students are given the opportunity to learn intercultural communication by being exposed to a diverse environment in gender, race, ethnicity, and culture.
Our students around the world
From 65
Countries & Territories
96
North america
94
from
North
america
94
from
North
america
5
South America
Europe
29
194
5
923
asia
Oceania
Africa
Our students around Asia
4from
Western Asia
69from
Southeast Asia
5from
Central Asia
164STudents from
China (Mainland)
513STudents from
Hong Kong
16STudents from
Taiwan
52STudents from
South Korea
923
Students from East Asia
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91from
South Asia
9STudents from
Japan
69%
Full-time
HKU Students
31%
Exchange
Students
iNTERDisciplinarity
The diverse areas of focus of our partner companies and the wide range of roles and responsibilities students are placed into, give Impact Lab its unique, interdisciplinary nature. This means the Course is relevant, practical, and value-added to students, regardless of their academic disciplines.
Multiple Faculties
Impact Lab students are from almost all of the faculties at HKU
77STudents from
The Faculty of Engineering
44STudents from
The Faculty of Arts
10STudents from
The Li Ka Shing Faculty of MEdicine
956STudents from
HKU BUsiness School
Students from 9/10 Faculties
9STudents from
The Faculty of Architecture
52STudents from
The Faculty of Science
9STudents from
The Faculty of Education
77STudents from
The Faculty of Social Sciences
18STudents from
The Faculty of Law
and
40 Different Majors
impact
Many Impact Lab alumni have started their social impact organizations, landed careers focused on social impact, or are driving impact from within their private sector employers. Our impact on youth empowerment and capacity building for under-resourced social impact organizations is widely acknowledged by the University Grants Committee and the 2023 Teaching Award it grants to Impact Lab’s instructor, David Bishop.
Partner tESTIMONIES
vivian SEO
GowldArt / FSI (CBS)
Clara focused on soft skills and leadership skills, Keith on Google Suite and marketing, and Erica on fundraising and business development. What was great about their engagement was not only that they facilitated the CBS team to run workshops with the entrepreneurs, but they also committed part of their placement to document the learnings and resources into Toolkit articles so that they can be shared with the broader public.
Working with the Impact Lab students is always exciting! Once the students know that this is a placement in which they can explore, fail sometimes, and really own responsibilities, they genuinely enjoy the entire learning process. Impact Lab is so much more than a course!
student learning
Tonia Pao
Gowld Art Centre
Spring 2024
"My Impact Lab experience brought me opportunities to interact with people from many diverse backgrounds with one thing in common that brought us all together: the love for art. Passion brings people closer despite our differences, and this is a valuable lesson."
aLUMNI tESTIMONIES
Impact Lab alumni have gone on to illustrious careers around the globe. Many have started their own
social impact organizations, landed in careers with a focus on social impact, or are driving impact from
within their private sector employers. These students have taken their learnings forward to empower
the next generation of youth and the broader community as responsible global citizens.
uNITED nATIONS sUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT gOALS
HKU has committed to respond purposefully to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) as stated in the HKU Vision 2016-2025. The Impact Lab course works with organizations that
are committed to different SDGs. This allows students and the Course to directly contribute to the
international agenda and make a positive impact. For instance:
24 Hour Race contributes to the SDGs by working towards the following goals: 10 Reduced Inequalities; 16 Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions; and 17 Partnerships for the Goals.
Migrasia, which works with migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, contributes to the SDGs related to: 4 Quality Education; 10 Reduced Inequalities; 16 Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions; and 17 Partnerships for the Goals.
