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Education
Youth Development Commission
Chaired by the Chief Secretary for Administration, the Youth Development Commission serves as a steering committee to enhance policy coordination within the government and enable holistic and more effective examination and discussion of issues of concern to young people. It promotes cross-bureau and cross-departmental collaboration, undertakes to address young people's concerns about education, career development and home ownership, and encourages their participation in politics as well as public policy discussion.
The commission follows three broad policy directions, namely, assisting in young people's selection of suitable study pathways, facilitating their career development and upward mobility, and strengthening communication channels with them.
The commission and the Home Affairs Bureau, through organising or sponsoring programmes such as the Youth Ambassadors Programme, provide young people with opportunities to display their talent to the fullest, sharpen their competitive edge and become future masters of Hong Kong with vision, creativity, commitment to society and leadership qualities. Offered under the various programmes are internship and exchange, start-up support, youth life planning, volunteerism and commendation schemes.
Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The commission completed a review of the Youth Development Fund and rolled out in March a Funding Scheme for Experiential Programmes at Innovation and Entrepreneurial Bases in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a Funding Scheme for Youth Entrepreneurship in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The schemes aim at subsidising Hong Kong NGOs to provide start-up assistance and incubation services that befit the needs of young people who are about to start businesses in Hong Kong and in other cities of the Greater Bay Area, including helping them settle in entrepreneurial bases and further helping them meet initial capital needs. Both schemes were met with enthusiasm and received applications from more than 40 NGOs in total.
The Home Affairs Bureau also implements the Space Sharing Scheme for Youth. This scheme is carried out through a community-business-government tripartite partnership to provide a platform for owners of revitalised industrial and commercial buildings to contribute floor areas for the operation of co-working space or studios, to support start-ups of emerging industries and young people who are setting up their own businesses, and to support arts and cultural development. Participating owners rent out space to suitable NGOs at no more than one-third of the market rental or operate such space themselves. The operators provide leasing options and support to start-ups, young entrepreneurs and artists at concessionary rents no higher than half of the market rental.
Mainland-bound Thematic Youth Internship Programmes
In 2019, the Home Affairs Bureau collaborated with the Palace Museum and the Wolong National Nature Reserve again, and set up similar arrangements with the Chinese Academy of
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