As of March 2019, the number of innovative ventures funded through Innovative Programmes administered by the intermediaries has reached 146. More information about the newly approved ventures will be provided in due course.
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- Project type: prototype | start-up | scale-up
- Service scope: healthcare | diet | living | transport | job training and opportunities | education and learning | community participation | other service types
- Major beneficiaries: children and youth | elderly | persons with disabilities | ethnic minorities | low-income families | other beneficiary groups
- Intermediary Programme: Good Seed | Impact Incubator
- Funding Status: active | ended
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The venture seeks to foster social inclusion and community participation of the visually impaired through launching products, exhibitions, experiential activities and community tours that promote "blind photography".
Seeking to help children with special education needs learn Chinese in a joyful way, the venture put forward an online learning platform with an app combining word cards, digital game and augmented reality technology.
With the help of the venture, ethnic minority women will be able to enhance their self-esteem and social participation by utilising their knowledge and skills in the production of incense and running of workshops.
The venture seeks to alleviate the financial burden of low-income women on menstrual products by providing them with reusable items for free.
By means of creative activities including a book van to reach out to children, the venture aims to promote reading and to give children of underprivileged families an equal opportunity to learn by reading and move upward on the social ladder.
With a goal to improve the emotional well-being of students, the venture adopts the Non-violent Communication model to develop a social-emotional education solution for primary schools.
Using both online and offline STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) learning materials, the venture aims to forge a joyful, customised learning environment for students with special education needs to develop their capability in problem-solving.
The venture strives to promote social inclusion. Persons with disabilities are hired to run experiential community tours whereas tour participants will enhance their empathy by interacting with the tour guides.
The venture aims to develop low-cost smart glasses to assist visually impaired persons to recognise the surrounding environment so that they can cope with tasks in daily living and enhance social participation.
The venture helps forge an inclusive environment in which persons with visual impairment can travel more freely. A mobile computer navigation device to be carried by a guide dog will be developed to provide the visually impaired persons with more information about the path ahead.
The venture provides an online platform to encourage students of grassroots families to learn by taking online courses and by interacting and co-developing knowledge with their peers.
Through offering study tours for free or at a discount, GoHarvest Travel provides students from low-income families with the opportunities of participating in extra-curriculum activities that help them build up confidence, broaden knowledge, as well as enhance social skills.
The venture sets its sights on facilitating social inclusion of the ethnic minorities as well as enhancing cross-cultural understanding by promoting the sport Kabaddi among young people from both local and ethnic minority groups.
With the objective of enhancing social participation of persons with disabilities, rental service of specially designed beach wheelchair will be introduced, making the beach more accessible by wheelchair users.
Home modification programmes for low-income families living in subdivided flats are launched, aiming to improve the study environment for the children and help them climb the ladder of social mobility.
Riding on the success of its prototype project funded by SIE Fund in 2016, the venture advances to a start-up project to extend its impact on the social integration of the visually impaired through exhibitions, consultation service and workshops, etc.
Motion sensor "EduTech" games are being developed in collaboration with therapists and teachers of special schools to help students with dyslexia learn Chinese vocabularies and sentence structure.
The venture aims to help students from grassroots families enhance their understanding of eSports as an option for a career. Internship will be provided for participants to gain experience in the up-and-coming industry.
The venture seeks to develop a tool for fast detection of pneumonia to enable early treatment to be given to the patients whereby time and money be saved.
By developing a light-weight, low-cost robotic exoskeleton system, the venture seeks to foster an extensive application of robotic-assisted stroke rehabilitation therapy at the community level that will benefit more patients.
By providing training and job opportunities, the venture seeks to enhance the confidence of the young people from underprivileged groups (e.g. low-income, ethnic minority and disabled) and equip them for a career in the creative industry.
This venture addresses the dressing problems of the elderly and through providing adaptive clothing improves their well-being and facilitates their participation in social life.
With an aim to facilitating social integration of the deaf/hard-of-hearing people, Voiceless provides an online platform with a host of services to help people with needs overcome barriers to learning and communication.
SENovate provides training programmes for students with special education needs to help them develop their confidence and entrepreneurial capability to address social problems.
Tinwork seeks to contribute to building a stronger bonding in the community by providing a series of training courses for the grassroots while recruiting the hidden talents in the community to be trainers.
This venture engages the unemployed and underemployed people in the production of innovative handicrafts with eco-design, hence helping them earn a living.
With the aid of a storytelling mobile app and accompanying toy sets, this venture helps children with visual impairment interact and play with sighted playmates to enhance social inclusion.
Made in Sample provides training and job opportunities in sewing to help teenage mothers unleash potentials and attain self-confidence and self-worth.
This venture strives to promote social inclusion by providing all-round barrier-free information through a mobile app to help persons with disabilities travel with ease.
To support “Ageing in Place”, Longevity Design House launches an economical home maintenance programme which will improve the living environment of the single elderly.
StrEAT provides training and consultancy services for operations of food bazaars and organisations to help the grassroots attain financial self-reliance as well as to stimulate the social agility of the community.
MedEXO Robotics aims to develop a set of multi-functional robotic device to alleviate symptoms of patients suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and improve their well-being, thus enhancing their self-confidence.
Goods Co-Share helps alleviate poverty through running retail service with stalls that sell daily necessities at low prices and employ grassroots housewives for stall management.
ADAM strives to explore more opportunities for persons with disabilities to unleash their talent in art, thereby enabling them to attain self-reliance and build up dignity while enhancing public understanding.
Family Online aims to facilitate social inclusion of families with SEN children by offering their parents occupational training and employment opportunities.
Aiming to facilitate the social inclusion of autistic youth, the venture provides them with training in game app development that unleashes their potential and enhances their self-confidence.
"neoi5 zoeng3" is a venture that helps grassroots women alleviate their economic hardship and attain self-confidence through unleashing their talent in cooking source development and engaging them in production and sale.
Bookit provides an online platform for transactions of used textbooks, enabling low-income families to reduce their expenses on purchase of textbooks and thus helping alleviate their financial hardship.
The team embarks on developing a wearable device that keeps track of elderly’s motion to enable prompt attention and treatment to be given upon falling accidents, thus providing better protection to elderly.
Riding on Fintech, BeanCare will build an open platform for charitable organisations to raise funds with better cost efficiency and maintain a dialogue with donors on the destination of the donations.
Big Silver Community aims to promote an age-friendly environment across the society through the collaboration of the elderly, caregivers, NGOs, corporates, professionals and media on appropriate community programmes.
Experimenting a new idea to address poverty, the project acts as a social property agent to help alleviate the economic hardship and improve the living environment of low-income tenants of subdivided flats.
To encourage self-reliance through employment, this venture will develop and launch customised job-matching platforms for mobile or desktop access to help low-income single-parents find the working opportunities.
The programme serves to promote social inclusion through empowering women of the ethnic minority groups to become self-reliant with gainful employment.
This venture seeks to enhance the employment opportunities and social integration of the visually impaired through improved accessibility to visual information with the support of technology.
Festyle seeks to empower low-income housewives for gainful employment while enabling the bustling city to develop a culture of healthy dining at home.
By means of a comprehensive service package, MedPOT will guard elderly patients with chronic diseases to take medicines in adherence to prescription and schedule.
This venture aims to enhance social inclusion through empowering people with special education needs and exploring job opportunities for them.
Enhancing the well-being of the elderly, this venture supports their children (“Sons&Daughters”) with the right information at the right time for taking care of them effectively.
This venture aims to help the disabled, injured, elderly, as well as patients with Parkinson's disease achieve self-reliance and active lifestyles by provision of low cost, multipurpose exoskeleton devices.
Advocating the importance of timely support to children traumatised under family crisis, this venture enables the early detection of victims by social workers and clinical psychologists with the use of an intervention tool in the form of story books.
This venture offers a new choice for affordable hearing aids to hearing-impaired persons through the use of their smartphones with enhancement.
Through intensive business training and life coaching programmes, Aquila Brother seeks to empower low-education, low-income and unengaged youth for career and entrepreneurial development.
Aiming at happy rehabilitation, AESIR delivers the augmented reality enabled playbook to help promote emotional literacy for children with special education needs and track their emotional behaviour over time.
This venture aims to promote social inclusion by providing opportunities for persons with disabilities to contribute their talent to product production.
With the ultimate goal of promoting social inclusion, the venture enhances the career opportunities of the ethnic minorities through the provision of guidance and training in the contact centre industry.
This venture puts sharing economy in practice to address poverty issues, with the grassroots community to be employed to produce food by the cooking facilities amid the idling kitchen hours of the owner restaurants and sell the food products as a source of new income.
Ideas for Good aims at testing out another approach to enhancing social inclusion through training up visually impaired persons as coaches to provide service to different institutions and corporations.
Twopresents aims to scale up its operation and to extend its reach in generating funding for NGOs and charities and in promoting the concept of “Sharing is Caring”.
In this fellowship programme to nurture future leaders with empathy, outstanding university students will be recruited to serve full time in teaching and leadership training in schools with underprivileged students for one year.
This venture helps children with Spasticity Diplegia or Cerebral Palsy integrate into society by enhancing their mobility with redesigned walking aids.
The project facilitates kindergarten NCS students to integrate into the community through provision of Chinese Enhancement classes to support them in learning the Chinese language.
A life-coaching programme for youth, it aims to cultivate their physical and spiritual sturdiness and to strengthen their engagement with the community through training in long distance running.
This venture provides a quality time for low-income and single-parent families to build up close family bonding through co-creating activities and hence helps prevent teen and family problems.
This venture aims to improve the escort services for visits to out-patient clinics as well as the overall service quality of the elderly care industry with the support of a web application.
With an objective of promoting social inclusion, this venture uses videos in sign language to enhance the accessibility to information and entertainment for the hearing impaired and offers opportunities for the hearing impaired to develop a career in the media field.
This venture raises awareness of children on social issues, to nurture their compassion and to unleash their creativity to become potential change makers.
The project team seeks to equip and empower persons with disabilities for employment and social engagement with a barrier-free e-learning environment.
The team of young entrepreneurs strives to facilitate elderly scavengers to live with dignity, increase their earnings, and raise public awareness of their situation.
This venture aims to empower the underprivileged youth through engaging them in business operations as well as to improve social integration of the elderly with community events.
The team is committed to promoting social inclusion through facilitating coworking of designers and ex-offenders in apparel design and conveying positive values via the work of journalists.
A value-building programme, it helps young people develop their personal goals to embrace life challenges under the guidance of mentors who are from the underprivileged groups.
The venture aims to enhance the living environment of low-income groups through application of architectural design to home modification and improvement of environment in public spaces and community spaces.
A diversity of channels will be utilised by Fantastic Dream to reach out to and cultivate positive life values among youth and bring them back to normal life from the virtual world.
Green Care serves to address the needs of elderly and persons with disabilities on rehabilitation products along the concept of sharing economy and contribute to environmental protection through the development of an online platform..jpg)
This venture will strengthen the delivery of escort services for the elderly and persons with disabilities by the underprivileged, following the introduction of a new IT platform.