Introduction
Welcome to Internship Week 2021!
This summer we will offer around 450 internship opportunities with over 140 Community Partners in Hong Kong and around the world. There will be internship opportunities in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Mainland China, Nepal, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Korea, Taiwan and USA, while some non-local internships will offer the option of remote working if travel restriction continues in this unpredictable COVID-19 period. In addition, “Global Citizenship at Home” (GC@Home) will offer a new pathway for students to gain cross-cultural communication skills and explore global issues without leaving Hong Kong under GLoCal Projects as well as to meet the Global Citizenship graduation requirement. You may find more details in this website.
Over 140
Community
Partners
More than 190
Internship
Topics/Posts
Around 450
Placement
Quota
Deadline of Application:
January 27 (12:00pm), 2021
Please remember to register for the workshops to receive the Zoom link(s).
Come and browse around the website to check out more information about the Internship Week 2021!
If you need advice on identifying your choices among these internship opportunities and get prepared for the application, you are encouraged to join the workshops as well as individual consultation sessions arranged by the Experiential Learning Team via Zoom. Register now!
Internship Week Schedule 2021
January 18
First Day of Internship Week 2021
Online Application Opens @ 6:00pm
January 19
CV Writing Workshop
@ 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Speaker: Ms Connie Tsui-Burchield, Radix Consulting
Project Overview: GLoCal + GC at Home
@ 1:45pm – 2:30pm
Speaker: Ms Elsa Lam, Director of Experiential Learning, Faculty of Social Science
January 20
Interview Skills Workshop
@ 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Speaker: Ms Connie Tsui-Burchield, Radix Consulting
Project Overview: Service Learning in China
@ 1:45pm – 2:30pm
Speaker: Mr Ken Yau, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning, Faculty of Social Science
January 21
“Create your Professional Digital Profile” Workshop
@ 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Speaker: Ms Connie Tsui-Burchield, Radix Consulting
Project Overview: Social Innovator
@ 1:45pm – 2:30pm
Speaker: Ms Winky Wu, Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science
January 22
Friday Afternoon Chat: Your Internship and Career Development
@ 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Facilitator: Dr Marty W. Forth, Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science
Sharing by alumni: Tony Ko BSocSc (2017), Jeremy Yip BSocSc (2019), Eric Tang BSocSc (2020)
Individual Consultation Session (Walk-in Welcome)
@ 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Meeting ID: 970 3267 3996
January 25
Individual Consultation Session (Walk-in Welcome)
@ 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Meeting ID: 970 3267 3996
January 26
Individual Consultation Session (Walk-in Welcome)
@ 11:00am – 12:00pm
Meeting ID: 970 3267 3996
January 27
Last Day of Internship Week 2021
Online Application Closed @ 12:00pm
SIGC Options
How to pick your internship?
We understand there are many considerations while choosing an internship. There’s no perfect internship to apply for but you can figure out which one aligns best with your interest, career goals, skills, language requirements and experience. And we encourage you to be curious and venturing out from your comfort zone. Here are some filters to assist you in making the right choice –
- By Projects – Specialised project-based internships that tailor for your unique learning experience
- By Social Issues – Exploration of specific problems that match your interest categorised under the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- By Internship Topics – Nature of job tasks and sectors that fit your career inspiration, skills and knowledge
Placements by Projects
Placement-based internships offer students the off-campus learning opportunities to work locally and abroad as interns at various kinds of organisations, including non-governmental organisations, social enterprises, think-tanks, startups, business corporations and etc. for a variety of posts and topics ranging from education and communication to research and community services.
In this summer, we have non-local placement opportunities in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Mainland China, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Korea, Taiwan, and USA.
A pilot initiative, namely ‘Community-Engaged Research Internship’, will also be offered this summer. Student Interns will be able to conduct a complete project impact assessment with a local NGO. Please see the project details under Local Internships.
Community Partners and Placement Descriptions:
GLoCal Projects provide students with project-based/cross-disciplinary learning opportunities to work with international NGOs and local partners on global issues with local engagement. In 2021 Summer, we will have one specific project on human trafficking with Sasane Sisterhood in Nepal and 11 Community Partners in Hong Kong on international development, refugees, ethnic minorities and migrant worker issues.
Sasane Sisterhood (https://sasanesisterhoodtrek.com/) in Nepal offers a unique approach to address domestic violence and human trafficking. Sasane means “Let’s Protect Ourselves” in English. They aim to provide employment opportunities to survivors of human trafficking by creating sustainable tourism in Nepal. The interns from Faculty of Social Sciences and Department of Comparative Literature will work in group to produce communication materials for the project, support the “sisters” with innovative ideas for improving their projects and tasks, e.g. cooking class. In case the travel restriction is still on, interns are expected to work remotely to help the “sisters” on preparing the online cooking class, develop the online marketing materials and provide ideas on social marketing of tourism in the post-COVID-19 period.
GC@Home: Global Citizenship at Home internships (GC@Home) will offer a cross-cultural context to understand the global issues in Hong Kong, which can also meet the Global Citizenship requirement.
Community Partners and Projects:
- EmpowerU (Curriculum Digitisation Project)
- Branches of Hope
- Christian Action Centre for Refugees
- EmpowerU (Social Media Management)
- EmpowerU (Graphic Design and Communications)
- End Poverty (Marketing and Communications)
- End Poverty (Graphic Design and Presentation)
- Sasane Sisterhood Trekking and Travel
- UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) (Digital and Communications)
- UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) (Fundraising Communications)
- World Vision Hong Kong
- Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM)
- Fair Employment Agency
- PathFinders Limited
- RUN HK
- End Poverty (International Development Project In Kenya)
- Equal Opportunities Commission
The 6-credit Service Learning in China (SLC) programme offers intensive four-week learning opportunities for students working for a specific project/service task in China. In this summer, there are three Community Partners, including Institute of Social Science Survey (中國社會科學調查中心), Intellisia Research Institute (海國圖智研究院), and Peer Experience Exchange Rostrum (PEER毅恒挚友大學生志願服務促進中心) developing 5 tailor-made projects in Beijing, Changsha and Guangzhou.
SLC provides flexibility allowing Social Sciences students to gain additional cross-border learning opportunity for another endorsed 6-credit course in configuring Global Citizenship requirement, such as transferring credits from exchange programmes, or a new 6-credit 2-week field trip in China in Jan 2022 with 5 classes in the first semester of 2021/22.
For non-Social Sciences students and Social Sciences students who have completed Global Citizenship requirement, they can take this 6-credit SLC as their free electives to enrich their portfolio of working experience in China.
Community Partners and Projects:
- Intellisia (hai-guo-tu-zhi) Research Institute (Gender Research on "Her Perspective")
- Peer Experience Exchange Rostrum (PEER) (Communication and Volunteers Network)
- Institute of Social Science Survey
- Intellisia (hai-guo-tu-zhi) Research Institute (Application of Artificial Intelligence on Traffic Management)
- Peer Experience Exchange Rostrum (PEER) (Research for Impact Assessment on Rural Education Program)
Social Innovator offers both local (IDEA Incubator) and non-local (Social Innovator in China) opportunities for students to learn the entrepreneurial process and to create out-of-the-box solutions with first-hand experience working in innovative social enterprises, interacting with changemakers and understand how the system works for social enterprises.
IDEA Incubator
*Please apply to IDEA Incubator directly on the Experiential Learning system and indicate your preference on community partners and projects if there’s any.
IDEA Incubator is designed for students committed to address pressing social problems in new and smart ways, combating social challenges through developing an idea of their own. The programme aims to provide a platform for students to create and scale their innovative idea by emphasising three learning lenses: the social problem, the enterprising individual, and the requirements of the pathway to social innovation.
Student-teams will intern at a local social innovative enterprise for 8 weeks. They will receive first-hand exposure to the social problem and study the creative solution. Training and mentorship will be provided throughout the course. Each team will create a “smart idea” and to pitch their business proposal at the end of course. Outstanding ideas may be funded for prototyping beyond the course level.
Social Innovator in China
*Please apply to Social Innovator in China directly on the Experiential Learning system and indicate your preference on community partners and projects if there’s any.
Social Innovator in China offers opportunities for student-groups to travel across cities in China, to interact with local changemakers as well as to learn about the social enterprise ecosystem. A comparative perspective of social innovation development across regions will be studied.
Community Partners and Projects:
Placements by Social Issues (17 Sustainable Development Goals)
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. They address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. For details of SDGs, please refer to the following designated website https://sdgs.un.org/goals.
Please click the icon for the list of community partners.
Placement by Internship Topics (5 Categories)
Internship opportunities are grouped under 5 categories based on the nature of job tasks and sectors. You can filter the placements by the below 5 categories on the Online Application System:
- Clinical and Educational Services (CES)
- Communication, Media and Culture (CMC)
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Community or Social Services (CSS)
- Research and Policy Analysis (RPA)
Application Tips
Application and Selection Procedures
How to Secure an Internship Offer
Application Schedule
| Activity | Date |
| Application Period | January 18, 2021 (6:00pm) – January 27, 2021 (12:00noon) |
| Announcement of 1st round results | February 22, 2021 |
| Announcement of 2nd round results | March 12, 2021 |
| Announcement of 3rd round results | April 1, 2021 |
*Special arrangement of non-local internships application in Summer 2021: FOSS students in their third year of study or above will have priority to apply for non-local internships (including ‘Global Citizenship at Home’ placements) in the first round of application for meeting their graduation requirements by 2022. For FOSS students in the first and second year of study, your application for non-local internships will only be processed from second round onwards, meanwhile such application from non-FOSS students will be processed from the third round onwards. If you have any special circumstances, please contact socii@hku.hk for enquiry.
CPs and Students’ Voices
Learn Beyond the Names
Neurum
Across U-hub
Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
Official China
Youth and Family Services Section, TWGHs
Learn Beyond the Internship Task
Social Innovation and Global Citizenship Internships are specially designed to encourage students to maximise their full potential by going beyond the confines of the campus, their academic discipline and geographical boundaries. Internships adopt a multidisciplinary and practice-oriented approach engaging students to expand social awareness through working with community partners. The internships deliverables are to enhance social development and promote social innovations. We are glad to show you some of the students’ work and its community impact, locally and internationally.
Photos from SIGC Summer Internship Photo Competition
SIGC Summer Internship Photo Competition provides opportunities for student interns to share their learning experience. Here are the award-winning photos in 2020 and 2019.
Gold Prize (2020)
Description for Photo
The joy of harvest under COVID-19
Photo taken by: MAK Shui Wa Sarah
Community Partner:
Rooftop Republic Urban Farming @Hong Kong
Silver Prize (2020)
Description for Photo
Even the rain was heavy on that day, our colleagues were still energetic to clean the beach! I was overwhelmed by their passion.
Photo taken by: LIN Shitong
Community Partner:
KPMG China (SH) @Shanghai, China
Bronze Prize (2020)
Description for Photo
A carefully planned workshop on elderly and softmeal turned into a semi-improvised event after the unexpected surge of COVID-19 cases. Us interns were overwhelmed by the last-minute adjustments and only had time for a photo after the successful workshop.
Photo taken by: LEE Wing Lam
Community Partner:
Social Enterprise Business Centre, Hong Kong Council of Social Service @Hong Kong
Popularity Prize (2020)
Description for Photo
Besides food waste, eggshell recycling is necessary but absent. Several barrels of eggshells are discarded every day. Apparently, we should consider innovative ways, such as eggshell painting, to upcycle eggshells.
Photo taken by: MA Fong Ching
Community Partner:
Ever Green Association @Hong Kong
Gold Prize (2019)
Throughout our time in Nepal, we were often caught off guard by just how giving the Nepalese people were to us. It was an experience that we will never be able to forget.
Photo taken by: LIM Janghyeok
Community Partner:
Centre for Social Change @Nepal
Silver Prize (2019)
Stay in Nairobi and the internship provides me with a chance to witness the change in this land and society. The work I’ve done, which is analysing the local government’s policy, opens a window for me to look into Kenya’s society, its people and its mysterious past.
Photo taken by: LUO Shengwei
Community Partner:
Sino Africa Centre of Excellence @Kenya
Bronze Prize (2019)
The programme this picture shows was the Code+Create workshop, where the kids learned programming via Scratch. It was so amazing when we saw their plot in Scratch and we almost forgot about how pure and innocent that our childhood can be.
Photo taken by: CHENG Winki
Community Partner:
Kids4kids @Hong Kong
Student’s work
Posters
GLoCal Nepal 2019Video
Booklets
Contact
Academic Advice:
Ms Elsa Lam (lamelsa@hku.hk)
Mr Ken Yau (tkyau@hku.hk)
Ms Winky Wu (winkywmt@hku.hk)
Technical enquiries:
Mr Maurice Tam (mpltam@hku.hk)
General Enquiries:
Tel: (852) 3917 1212
Email: socii@hku.hk
Address:
11/F, Faculty of Social Sciences,
The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus,
The University of Hong Kong
Office hours:
Monday – Friday
9:00am – 1:00pm; 2:00pm – 6:00pm
