Annual Report 2009–10

56 Summer Programmes Two summer programmes are offered to local and overseas secondary school students and undergraduates each year. The programmes were well received as shown by the increasing number of participants. The Summer Institute, a two-week programme, was held in mid-July for some 200 local and international Secondary Five and Six students (or equivalent) to let them explore their interest in different disciplines before making undergraduates programme choices. The students took two academic modules in medicine, business, engineering, philosophy, social science or science and could reside on campus to experience the vibrant campus life of CUHK. The five-week International Summer School (ISS) was held in late June. It aimed to develop CUHK into an international education hub that offers students an international learning environment and opportunities for cultural exchange during the summer. Over 600 students attended the ISS, of whom more than half were international students from 31 places around the world. Courses in business, engineering, humanities and social sciences were offered by academics from CUHK and prestigious overseas universities, while Putonghua and Cantonese courses were delivered by teachers from the CLC. In Support for Business and Industry In March 2010, CUHK signed an agreement with the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation to enable tenants at the Science Parks and other companies to use the University’s advanced biotechnology facilities. It supports the life science industry, and thus promote Hong Kong’s technological innovation, and benefits particularly small and medium enterprises and start-ups which cannot afford expensive equipment. The transcoding technologies for mobile networks developed by Prof. Lee Yiu-bun Jack of the Department of Information Engineering have been employed in the X-Power service launched by SmarTone-Vodafone in July 2010. The technologies have been deployed in both Hong Kong and Macau. A related video streaming technology has also been deployed in Singapore. In addition, a number of 暑期課程 大學每年均為本地及海外的中學生和大學 生開辦兩個暑期課程，修讀人數年有遞增。 在七月舉辦的預科生暑期課程為期兩周， 共吸引二百多名本地及國際的中五及中六 學生參加，為升讀大學作準備。學生在醫 學、工商管理、工程、哲學、社會科學或科 學等單元中選修兩科，認識大學課程及本 身興趣，以助日後選科。此外，學生亦可 入住大學宿舍，體驗大學多姿多采的住宿 生活。 五星期的國際暑期課程在六月底舉行， 六百多名大學生群集中大校園，當中逾半 來自三十一個不同國家或地區。課程旨在 提供國際化環境，讓世界各地的大學生在 暑假一起學習，交流文化，擴闊視野，提 供的學術課程包括工商管理、工程、人文 和社會科學，由中大及世界著名學者教 授；而普通話及廣東話課程則由雅禮中國 語文研習所老師教授。 支援工商業 二零一零年三月，大學和香港科技園公司 簽署協議，讓租用科技園的公司使用大學 先進的生物技術設施。是項協議不單支援 科技產業，更有利於本港創新科技的長遠 發展，尤其惠及中小型企業和無法負擔昂 貴設備的初創公司。 由信息工程學系李耀斌教授開發的手 機網絡轉碼技術，被應用到 SmarTone- Vodafone 於二零一零年七月推出市場的 X-Power 服務上，能實時將網上的視聽內 容轉化成可串流到手機的格式，讓用戶隨 時隨地享受到流暢、清晰的視聽娛樂。該 技術已被香港及澳門的業界使用，另一相 關影片串流技術亦於新加坡應用，還有數