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Programme
In 2025, HKU will once again team up with Common Purpose, a global leadership development organization that runs programmes all over the world to inspire and equip people to work across boundaries.
The next HKU-Common Purpose Leadership Development Programme will launch in December 2025. Join us to explore Kuala Lumpur, one of Asia’s fastest-growing cities and vibrant hubs for start-up companies!
Schedule at a Glance
Stage 1: Cultural Intelligence Accelerator (10 – 28 November 2025)
A 3-week online course for you to complete at your own pace, designed to help you prepare for working in a new city
Stage 2: Pre-departure briefing (21 November 2025, 4:30pm—5:30pm) —Online via zoom
A chance to ask questions about your time in Kuala Lumpur followed by a 30-minute travel information session led by HKU Staff.
Stage 3: Understanding Kuala Lumpur (22 December 2025) —In person in Kuala Lumpur
An introduction to the city you will be living and working in over the coming weeks
Stage 4: Collab (24 December 2025) —In person in Kuala Lumpur
Better understanding workplaces in the city and practising our leadership skills through creating partnerships
Stage 5A: Organizational attachment preparation (29 December 2025) —In person in Kuala Lumpur
Organization attachment preparation
Stage 5B: Organizational attachments (30-31 December 2025) —In person in Kuala Lumpur
Practising your employability skills in a real-world environment through an organization in the city
Stage 6: Reflections (16 January 2025) —In person in Kuala Lumpur
Reflections and looking ahead
Stage 7: Jamboree (16 March 2025) —Online via zoom
Translating our learnings from the programme to become workplace ready
Funding
Participants will be responsible for the airfare, insurance, visa accommodation, and daily in-country costs. Each participant will receive financial sponsorship (HK$5,000) from the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre to cover part of the aforementioned cost.
Who Can Apply?
LDP is designed primarily for undergraduate students in any disciplines and year of study.
Role
You may choose to take part in the programme as a general participant or a student coordinator. Five students will be selected to serve as student coordinators, one for each group, to ensure effective communication and cooperation within the group. The selected students will receive an award to support their participation in LDP. The student coordinators are expected to undertake the following roles:
- to create a warm and welcoming learning environment by acting as a peer mentor, role model, and leader
- to ensure that groups maintain and uphold behaviours as expected by HKU
- to ensure that the group stay in constant communication and keep in mind safety measures while travelling outside programme hours
- to make timely communication with the Common Purpose staff team if there are any concerns on health, stress, programme related issues etc.
Application Process
The application process is quite extended because there has to be sufficient time first to select participants, second to enable all selected participants to apply for a tourist visa in the host destination, and third to allow all participants to make transportation arrangements. These are the major steps:
| Date | Process |
|---|---|
| 1 September – 3 October 2025 (23:59) | Open for applications |
| 15 – 17 October 2025 | Interviews (face-to-face or Zoom) |
| 3rd week of October 2025 | Notification of application results |
| 4th week of October 2025 | Participants to submit signed “Notice of Acceptance” & commit to LDP. |
| 21 November 2025 | Pre-departure briefing |
For registration, please complete this online form.
For enquiries, please contact us at holdp@hku.hk.
Official Launch
March 15-16, 2019
Evening reception and full-day workshop with briefing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and small group conversations with Hong Kong-based leaders who are from – or have extensive experience of – Bangalore/Manila/Shanghai/Yangon, to prepare for the immersion experience in June.Recap on Past Events
Joined by some 100 participants including guest speakers who are leaders from different industries and sectors, mentors who are alumni of the University and participating students from HKU, the HKU-Common Purpose Leadership Development Programme 2017 Launch Event was successfully held during March 15-16, 2017.|
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E-learning Platform and Cultural Intelligence Online Module
May 2020
Cultural Intelligence – the leadership approach that underpins the programme; ‘Power Dynamic’ – the Common Purpose signature technique which empowers systematic mapping out of which organizations and individuals hold power and influence over whom and how.Immersion
June 8 – 26, 2020
Project generation, development and implementation, framed around the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Regular contact with Mentors, and engagement with senior leaders and stakeholders from Aboitiz Foundation, Civil Service Commission, Pifzer Philippines Foundation, Shell, Manila Water Foundation, Asian Development Bank, Coca Cola Foundation Philippines, AC Energy Holdings. Details at http://commonpurpose.org/leadership/programmes/students/hku-leadership-programme/.Jamboree at HKU
October 2019
Reflection and experience sharing.
About Common Purpose (http://commonpurpose.org/)
Founded in 1989, Common Purpose is a leadership development organization that specializes in cross-boundary leadership. It is runs programmes in over 70 cities worldwide, with over 4,000 participants becoming Common Purpose Alumni every year. Common Purpose leadership development programmes aim to inspire and equip participants to work across boundaries, enabling them to solve complex problems in organizations and in society.
Common Purpose’s extensive alumni network across the Asia Pacific region enables access at senior levels of organizations, large and small, across the public, private and NGO sectors.
Common Purpose partners with world-class universities and runs leadership programmes for their students, including the top 30 universities globally:
Harvard | Oxford | National University of Singapore | University of Nairobi | University of the Witwatersrand | University College London | IIT Bombay | New York University | King’s College London | Edinburgh | University of Chicago | IIM Bangalore | University of Johannesburg
Common Purpose partners with organizations in the field of student leadership, including:
Fulbright | AIESEC | National Youth Council of Singapore | All-China Youth Federation | China Youth Daily | Commonwealth Youth New Zealand