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Reference
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The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
General Research Fund
Concluding Report
Report for the period ending
Part A:
The Project and Investigator(s)
1. Project Title
2. Investigator(s) and Academic Department/Units Involved
Research Team
Principal
Investigator
Co-investigator(s)
Name/Post
Unit/Department/Institution
Others
3. Project Duration
Original
Revised
Project Start Date
Project Completion Date
Duration
(in month)
Deadline for Submission
of Completion Report
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Date of RGC /
Institution Approval
( must be quoted)
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4. Project Expenditure
4.1 Sources of funding
Source
RGC*
Institution
Others (please specify)
Total budget
Amount (HK$)
* the RGC funding is a one-line vote
4.2 Budget & Expenditure
Direct cost
Revised
Budget after
approval
Expenditure
Expenditure
Expenditure
incurred up to
incurred in
to date
the last
current
reporting period reporting period
(a)
(b)
(a + b)
Research Staff*
Relief Teacher
Equipment*
High-performance
Computing
Services
General
Expenses*
Software licence/
dataset
Research
Experience for
Undergraduate
Students
Conference(s)*
Total
* the RGC funding is a one-line vote except for approved items of ‘Relief Teacher’,
‘High-performance Computing Services’, ‘Software licence/ dataset’ and ‘Research
Experience for Undergraduate Students’.
4.3 Balance: $______________ (
% of Total budget)
**refund arranged / to be arranged (please delete as appropriate)
Part B:
Report on Project Progress
5. Project Objectives
5.1 Objectives as per original application
1.
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3. ....
5.2 Revised objectives
Date of approval from the RGC:
Reasons for the change:
1.
2.
3. ....
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5.3 Realisation of the objectives
(maximum 1 page; please state how and to what extent the project objectives have been achieved;
give reasons for under-achievements and outline attempts to overcome problems, if any)
5.4 Summary of objectives addressed to date
Objectives
Addressed
(as per 5.1/5.2 above)
(please tick)
Percentage
achieved
(please estimate)
1.
2.
3.
4.
6. Research Activities
(please state the scope of investigation undertaken; results achieved; problems encountered;
deviations from the original plan and the reasons for doing so etc.)
6.1 Research activities in relation to the project objectives that were carried out up to the last
Progress Report
6.2 Areas addressed and results expected during this reporting period ( as stated at 6.5 of the
last Progress Report)
6.3 Research activities in relation to the project objectives that were carried out during this
reporting period
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Part C: Research Output
7.
Peer-reviewed journal publication(s) arising directly from this research project
(Please attach a copy of the publication and/or the letter of acceptance if not yet submitted in the
previous progress report(s). All listed publications must acknowledge RGC’s funding support by
quoting the specific grant reference.)
The Latest Status of Publications
Year of
Year of
Under Under
publication Acceptance Review Preparation
(For paper
(optional)
accepted but
not yet
published)
8.
Title and
Journal/Book
(with the
volume,
pages and
other
necessary
publishing
details
specified)
Submitted
to RGC
(indicate
the year
ending of
the
relevant
progress
report)
Attached
to this
report
(Yes or
No)
Acknowledged
the support of
RGC (Yes or
No)
Recognized international conference(s) in which paper(s) related to this research
project was/were delivered (Please attach a copy of each conference abstract)
Month/Year/
Place
9.
Author(s)
(denote the
corresponding
author with an
asterisk*)
Title
Student(s) trained
Name
Conference Name
Submitted to
Attached to Acknowledged the
RGC (indicate this report support of RGC
the year ending (Yes or No) (Yes or No)
of the relevant
progress report)
(please attach a copy of the title page of the thesis)
Degree registered for
Date of registration
Date of thesis submission/
graduation
10. Other impact (e.g. award of patents or prizes, collaboration with other research institutions,
technology transfer, etc.)
Principal Investigator
Signature:
Name:
Date:
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