The University runs different courses and education programmes that address sustainability and the SDGs for the students. These include the SDG Study Scheme by the Office of University General Education, projects funded by the Sustainable Development Goals Action Fund, courses offered by the Department of Geography and Resource Management, and the Urban Studies Programme.

We also provide local education programmes or campaigns on climate change and related issues. The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change offers interactive, multimedia exhibitions that showcase valuable collections and information about climate change. The Mobilizing Community Climate Action by Future Museum Curators offers climate change education to secondary school students through hands-on exhibition curation. The online course Climate Change and Health provides an overview of issues related to climate change and public health. The Research Café on Carbon Neutrality features a wide spectrum of studies by postgraduate students at CUHK that address various aspects of carbon neutrality, or net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, for managing climate risks.

CUHK provides free access to educational resources, including its library, and online sharing and courses, e.g. CUHK Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Knowledge and Education Exchange Platform (KEEP) and CUTV for the general public. We also organize online courses available for those not studying at the university, including civil servants, frontline practitioners, and students of closely-related disciplines. Typical examples include the online course Climate Change and Health, provided by the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), which will issue a certificate to the participants who pass the final assessment.

To promote and facilitate lifelong learning, the University regularly organizes public lectures and community educational events, e.g. online talks and resources on CUTV’s ‘Class Acts’ Online Talk Series and webinars: UQ-CUHK Health Equity Webinar Series co-organized by the University of Queensland (UQ) and CUHK, and the zoom lectures run by the faculties and departments. We also organize executive education programmes that are open to the general public. Examples include the Cross-Border Legal Issues Dialogue Seminar Series, organised by the Faculty of Law, the Executive Education Programme, run by the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business, and part-time programmes offered by the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

We also organize educational outreach activities that are related to various SDGs beyond campus

• for alumni, e.g. the Alumni Affairs Office regularly organize different activities, listed in the CU Global Activity List for Alumni;
• in local schools, e.g. a three-year CUHK Jockey Club AI for the Future Project since 2019 for the city’s junior secondary school students to equip them with AI knowledge; Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF) Mobilizing Community Climate Action by Future Museum Curators to train students as ‘Future Museum Curators’ and organize exhibitions to convey climate change messages; SDG Ambassadorship to improve secondary school students’ understanding of the SDGs and train them to create an SDG action plan for their schools;
• in local community, e.g. the Community Health And Multi-disciplinary Partnership Interprofessional Outreach Network (CUHK Champion) by the Faculty of Medicine has served over 20,000 citizens in Hong Kong; the Community Caring Day cum Alumni Carnival by the Nethersole School of Nursing organized various activities such as talks and personal health counselling conducted by volunteers including CUHK alumni and students (nursing and gerontology); and the CUHK Jockey Club AI for the Future Project jointly run by CUHK and the local secondary schools to offer AI studies to around 8,000 secondary students; and
• for various underprivileged, such as asylum seekers in Hong Kong, e.g. the Children Books Matter: Books for Asylum-seekers Children project led by Mr. James Chong and funded by the University’s SDG Action Fund; the Children Books Matter project offers free books collected from the public to children of asylum-seeker families who in Hong Kong are unable to borrow books from public libraries.

We also provide upskilling training and education for policy- and law-makers, e.g. Cross-Border Legal Issues Dialogue Seminar Series offered by the Faculty of Law for practitioners, academics, the business community and the general public to engage in a dialogue on cross-border legal issues; and the Master Programme in Public Policy offered by the Department of Government and Public Administration to support current and aspiring policymakers to build the capacity of considering different points of view with an interdisciplinary perspective to achieve an optimal policy outcome.

The University has established the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, which aims to broaden the intellectual horizon of policymakers and develop policy alternatives for the community; and to serve as a think-tank for the Hong Kong government, the Chinese government, and policymakers in the public and private sectors.