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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.
In August, the commission held an online meeting on youth employment to strengthen collaboration among government bureaus and stakeholders, enabling them to hear young people's views and to respond to their needs more effectively.
Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The commission's funding schemes for experiential programmes at innovation and entrepreneurial bases and for youth entrepreneurship, both in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, subsidise Hong Kong NGOs to provide start-up assistance and incubation services for 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. It is estimated that about $130 million will be granted to 16 NGOs to implement youth entrepreneurship programmes, subsidising about 230 youth start-ups (involving more than 800 Hong Kong young entrepreneurs) and supporting services will be provided to about 4,000 young people.
The Home Affairs Bureau's Space Sharing Scheme for Youth is carried out through a community-business-government partnership that enables owners of revitalised industrial and commercial buildings to contribute space for co-working space or studios, to support start-ups in 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 the 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.
Youth Internship Programmes in the Mainland
Since 2017, the Home Affairs Bureau has worked with leading cultural and scientific research institutions, such as the Palace Museum, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan, to provide valuable internship opportunities in the Mainland for Hong Kong young people. The number of these internship programmes has increased from two in 2017 to seven in 2019. In 2020, the bureau continued to collaborate with cultural and scientific research institutions in the Mainland to prepare five new internship programmes, covering fields such as aerospace information research, ecological and cultural conservation and archaeological research.
Children's Rights
The Children's Rights Forum is a platform for children's organisations, children and the government to exchange views on matters that concern children. It relays children's views on government initiatives to the Family Council for consideration in assessing the impact of government policies on the family. In 2020, the Children's Rights Education Funding Scheme
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