Story on PolyU in Hongkong

Hi all, I'd like to share my stories on Southeast Asia here. As a South Korean, I stayed in two countries in the region for about 5 years. They are Singapore and Indonesia. From education, economy to traveling, food and sports, variety of topics will be touched up on. Please enjoy them and hopefully let me have a handful of your thoughts. :)

<PolyU awarded South East Asia’s first Erasmus Mundus Mobility Grant>

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was awarded South East Asia's first Erasmus Mundus (EM) Mobility Grant of nearly €1.4 million (US$1.9 million) by the European Commission in December 2010. The grant will support a large-scale scholarly exchange involving faculty and postgraduate students of nine universities in Europe and South East Asia.

The EM Mobility Grant is the joint effort of a consortium consisting of nine higher education institutions across Europe and South East Asian countries, with PolyU's Faculty of Humanities as the initiating institution and coordinator in South East Asia, and Université de Provence as the overall and Europe coordinator.

The grant will be allocated to successful applicants of the nine consortium partners in a project called "MULTI – Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Linguistic Approaches to Transition and Identity". This project, lasting three years, aims to address the linguistic, cultural and technological aspects of multilingualism, and to understand the impact of multilingualism in both European Union and South East Asian societies.