Facilities Management Office > Sustainable Development


Major areas

With reference to the 17 sustainable development goals set out by United Nations in 2025, HKSYU will advance sustainable development cultures and practices in the following areas.

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1 Green spaces
  • Final Bronze Award for Research Complex
  • Green surrounding on the top of Braemar Hill
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2 Green practices
  • Paperless office
  • Using recyclable materials
  • Grey water capture and recycling
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3 Green procurement
  • Electric devices with energy-saving label
  • Inexhaustible pure-tasting water dispenser
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4 Energy saving
  • Motion sensor lighting
  • Solar power and energy-saving lighting system
  • Environmentally friendly air-conditioning system
  • Substantive plans to install solar panels on existing and new campuses
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5 Waste management
  • Food waste processor
  • Recycling bins
  • Reusing things
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6 Quality education
  • Education for all by creating innovative programmes to provide opportunities for education, e.g. Foundation Year International Programme
  • Status in QS ranking
  • Digitally-enhanced teaching, learning and research, and the first university in Hong Kong to engage intensively and extensively in digital social work
  • International learning opportunities (including internships) to realize global exposure
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7 Concerns about inequalities
  • Research Centre
  • Policy for equality opportunities
  • Manuals of practice for equality practices
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8 Concerns for the disadvantaged
  • SEN facilities, protocols and measures
  • Workshops on social care
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9 Fair work environment
  • Policy against discrimination
  • No retirement age
  • 50:50 ratio between males and females on the Senior Management Team
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10 Partnership for SDGs
  • Student societies
  • External bodies (NGOs, government)
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11 No Poverty
  • No student is ever turned away because of his/her inability to pay tuition
  • Non-means subsidy for undergraduates
  • No or low interest student loans
  • A wide range of scholarships including generous post-graduate grants
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12 Good Health and Well-being
  • Non-smoking campus
  • Canteens on campus cater to vegetarians
  • Fitness training courses for students and staff paid in full or subsidized by the university
  • Counselling services for students
  • Community-based counselling and psychological services provided to individuals and groups through the Counselling & Research Centre
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13 Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Clean water provided throughout the campus by frequent and regularly cleaning and maintenance of water tanks
  • Clean drinkable water provided on campus through filtering systems
  • Sanitation performed daily by dedicated team of cleaners

Mission

HKSYU is committed to pursuing sustainable development as far as reasonably practicable for a sustainable future. The Sustainable Development Team is responsible for establishing good initiatives and measures for the purposes.

 

Terms of Reference

  1. To promote awareness and understanding of sustainable development;
  2. To conduct regular reviews of matters related to sustainable development;
  3. To facilitate members of the University to organize/participate in events and activities related to sustainable development;
  4. To make recommendations on advancing sustainable development.
 
 

Membership

Chair

Vice President

(University Administration)

Prof. Cheung Siu Keung

Members

Associate Vice President (Student Affairs)

Director of Campus Development

Assistant Administrative Manager (University Administration)

Ms. Sophia Yip

Mr. Kavan Li

Mr. Vincent Ho

Secretary

A staff from the Office of the Vice President (University Administration)