Exchanges with Sports Professionals

HKSI signed a three-year MOU with the Department of Sport and Physical Education, Hong Kong Baptist University (SPE, HKBU) to cooperate on research on 7 April 2020. Under the MOU, research projects and activities related to sports science jointly conducted by the SPE, HKBU and the HKSI will be supported and launched.

To share the latest information regarding the pandemic, as well as policy responses and institutional guidelines for high performance training, the HKSI participated in the Association of Sports Institutes in Asia (ASIA) online meeting on 11 June 2020. Nineteen representatives of 11 member organisations, including Hong Kong, mainland China, Cambodia, Chinese Taipei, India, Japan, Qatar, Singapore and Thailand, took part in the meeting.

Due to the pandemic, the 5^th Annual Congress of ASIA was held virtually for the first time from 22 to 26 February 2021. It bore the theme “New Norm in High Performance Sport with COVID-19 and the Future of Sport in Asia”. With over 2,100 online participants, the Congress highlighted the role of high performance sports in society for the post-coronavirus world. Speakers provided insights based on their experiences and shared best practices from across Asia to overcome challenges specific to the development of sports in Asian countries.

ASIA is the first association bringing together the region’s high performance training centres, and was founded in collaboration with the HKSI, the Singapore Sport Institute, the Japan Sport Council and the Aspire Academy in Qatar in 2015. Currently ASIA has 16 member institutes from 13 different countries and regions.

Mr Tsui Ying-wai, the then Secretary for Home Affairs, visited the HKSI in September 2020 to observe the operation of the HKSI and the training arrangements with preventive measures during the pandemic.

The then Secretary for Home Affairs Mr Tsui Ying-wai (back row middle) visited the HKSI.