Companions of Social Inclusion

Companions of Social Inclusion

Jockey Club Enhancing Youth Empathy Project through Immersive Visualisation enables young people to develop compassion for 1) ethnic minority groups, 2) the elderly and disabled, and 3) nature and the environment. The project is funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and led by City University of Hong Kong. It comprises three related programmes that utilise the University’s strengths in immersive visualization technology. Young people will be encouraged to develop their skills through "perspective-taking" and "role-taking", and create innovative solutions that meet the challenges and problems that different groups face.

Companions of Social Inclusion (COSI) is one of the programmes under the Jockey Club Enhancing Youth Empathy Project through Immersive Visualisation.

COSI aims to provide a series of training workshops and learning activities to enable Hong Kong youths to cultivate cognitive and affective understanding of the challenges, barriers, frustrations and possible discriminations faced by ethnic minority groups in our community.

COSI will enhance students' empathy and capacity to apply their knowledge and skills to design innovative solutions, both technological (particularly with the use of virtual reality technologies) and non-technological ones, to promote an inclusive society and empower the minority groups to enhance their coping skills and management capability in core domains of their everyday life.