MEP 20

Topic

The future is now – and this city is now in your hand.

The theme of MEP 20 is “Better Hong Kong, A Smart City”. Each team can explore the five areas listed below with the guidance of mentors assigned.

Be smart, and join MEP 20!

5 areas of smart city

Provide more flexible, more efficient, cleaner and safer ways for people to get around

Improve quality of life and facilitate healthy living and ageing with greater security, convenience and support service

Create a low carbon and sustainable environment through optimum use of city resources, energy efficiency, pollution reduction and green technology

Nurture highly adaptive population entrepreneurial culture to embrace future development of society and technology

Enhance the overall buttons climate through developing economic pillars, as well as promotion sharing economy, by innovation and technology

The competition is open to S.4 – S.6 students in a team format. Each team shall consist of 4 to 6 students and a Team Advisor. The Team Advisor could be a teacher or a staff-in-charge.
The team must be nominated by the school or organization.
A teacher or staff-in-charge must be assigned as a Team Advisor in each team.

Each team shall submit a proposal on this year theme and pitch to the judges at the final competition.
In order to facilitate students to better equip in the business proposal writing, workshops and organization visits will be conducted for participating teams.

Each team must submit MEP Business Proposal Form which could be written in Chinese or English, in PDF format electronically.
The proposal template can be downloaded later at below.

Date	Programme schedule
October 19, 2019	Early-bird enrollment deadline
October 31, 2019	Enrollment deadline
November 16, 2019	Opening ceremony (cancelled due to foreseeable traffic disruption)
December 2019 - February 2020	Organization visit / workshop
February 15, 2020	Proposal consultation day
March 14, 2020	Proposal submission deadline (rescheduled from February 28, 2020)
March 23, 2020	Announcing finalists
April 18, 2020	Pitching video submission deadline