CityU co-hosts “2025 Greater Bay Area Graduate Research Forum” to foster graduate research innovation
The “2025 Greater Bay Area Graduate Research Forum”, jointly organized by the Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), the Faculty of Business of City University of Macau (CityU), the Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Southern University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, and Southern Medical University, was recently held at CUHK (Shenzhen). Professor José Alves, dean of the Faculty of Business at CityU, attended the event as an invited guest and delivered speeches at both the opening and closing ceremonies. The forum brought together the research strengths from higher education institutions in the Greater Bay Area, stimulating the innovative enthusiasm and academic vitality of the postgraduate students.
At the opening ceremony, Dean José Alves extended his sincere greetings and a warm welcome to the attending faculty and students, expressing his high expectations for the academic achievements to be presented, believing the forum would be filled with remarkable highlights and successive moments. He further emphasized the hope that the forum would continue to uncover high-quality projects with novel perspectives and outstanding potential. By leveraging Macao’s unique position and cultural advantages as a “China-Portugal Platform”, he advocated for promoting the internationalization of outstanding research outcomes, aiming to achieve a dual leap in academic influence and social value on the stages of Portuguese-speaking countries and the broader international community in the future.
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The 2025 Greater Bay Area Graduate Research Forum was held under the theme “Continuous Learning & Innovative Research”. It attracted 238 students to register for participation. Ultimately, 121 students were selected to present their research findings in the form of academic posters and oral presentations. Yang Yulin, a master’s student from CityU, represented the University in the oral presentation session and received an excellence award sponsored by Wiley, demonstrating the high standards and outstanding outcomes of the Faculty of Business’s postgraduate education.
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At the forum’s awards ceremony, Dean José Alves expressed his warm congratulations on the successful organization of the graduate research forum. He spoke highly of the event’s distinctive international character, which provided graduate students with a high-level platform for academic exchange. Looking ahead, Dean José emphasized the unique resource advantages of Macao as a “China-Portugal Platform” and encouraged young scholars to leverage this bridge to promote the diversified and international development of high-quality research projects, collectively shaping a new technological future for the Greater Bay Area.
