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Reference
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The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Early Career Scheme
Annual Progress 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
Name/Post
Unit/Department/Institution
3. Project Duration
Original
Revised
Date of RGC /
Institution Approval
( must be quoted)
Project Start Date
Project Completion Date
Duration
(in month)
Deadline for Submission
of Completion Report
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4. Project Expenditure
4.1 Sources of funding
Source
RGC - (a) Project Fund
- (b) Grant for Educational Activities
Institution
Others (please specify)
Total budget
Amount (HK$)
4.2 Budget & Expenditure
Direct cost
Revised
Budget after
approval
Expenditure
Expenditure Expenditure to
incurred up to
incurred in
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
Conference(s) *
Grant for Educational
Activities
Total
* the RGC funding is a one-line vote except for approved items of ‘Relief Teacher’,
‘High-performance Computing Services’, ‘Software licence/ dataset’ and ‘Grant for
Educational Activities’
4.3 Balance: $______________ (_ _% of Total budget)
Part B:
Report on Project Progress
5. Project Objectives
5.1 Objectives as per original application
1.
2.
3. ....
5.2 Revised objectives
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Date of approval from the RGC:
Reasons for the change:
1.
2.
3. ....
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
6.4 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.
6.5 Areas to be addressed and results expected in the next reporting period
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Part C:
7.
Research Output
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. Progress of the education plan
(Please state how and to what extent the education plan has been achieved such as the
results of the undergraduate students’ participation in the research projects)
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11.
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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