The second stop in this week’s 2017 China- Europe Research and Innovation Tour (CN | EN) was Hong Kong. The event was hosted by the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong in their distinguished Senate room.
Hong Kong is part of China but as most of you know it has very special history and ties to Europe and is governed today as a Special Administration Zone. As such the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong has had since 2016 a special and separate co-funding agreement with the European Union. Today’s event included many success stories from the co-funding schemes as well as very promising remarks about the continuation of the scheme.
The event was a great success with many new members of the EURAXESS network here in Hong Kong, even though the Country Representative was a little under the weather. It’s flu season and when coming over from the mainland the he seem to have managed to catch a bit of it.
A potent virus can very quickly spread through the modern world with increased global mobility of people, and that is true in particular when it comes to the densely populated Pearl River Delta . Thankfully one of the examples of the co-funded research project presented in today‘s event is the Horizon 2020 funded Delta-Flu project that brings together scientists from all over the world to study the dynamics of avian influenza in today’s globalized environment. The University of Hong Kong is one of the participants.
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2017中国行纪录——香港篇
香港是本周2017年中欧研究创新之旅的第二站。香港理工大学在其著名的Senate room主办了本站活动。
香港特别行政区是中国不可分割的一部分，但大多数人都知道它有一段非常特殊的历史，与欧洲的联系十分紧密。香港研究资助局于2016年和欧盟签订了一份特殊而独立的联合资助协议。在今天的活动中，参与者们讲述了共同资助方案带来的许多成功案例，并就方案的延续发表了令人振奋的讲话。
本次活动大获成功，EURAXESS在香港的许多新成员参加了活动，唯一遗憾的是中国代表略有不适。此时正是流感季节，来自内地的这位代表恰巧受到波及。
由于当今世界的人员全球流动性较高，因此烈性病毒可能会很快传播到各地，在人口稠密的珠三角尤其如此。巧合的是，今天活动介绍的共同资助项目范例之一是“地平线2020”资助的“三角洲流感”（Delta-Flu）项目，参与该项目的科学家来自世界各地，携手研究当今全球化环境中的禽流感动态。香港大学是参与者之一。
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