HKIP Award Organising Committee
Theme Visit to the Netherlands

 HKIP Award Theme Visit to the Netherlands.pdf

The HKIP Award 2010 (the Award) will be launched in March this year. In addition to the regular categories, “Creative and Sustainable Community Planning and Development” will be this year’s Special Theme.

To allow prospective participants and members to have a wider and more global exposure on this topic, the Organising Committee is currently planning a theme visit to the Netherlands, which is famous for the implementation of cultural creativity in community development and also being a pioneer in environmental sustainability design and technology.

The trip would be about a week in length between 1 to 10 April 2010, making use of the 5 days’ public holiday span. The exact dates would be announced as soon as the fine tuning of the itinerary is finalized. The estimated cost of the trip would be around $13,000 on shared room basis (to be confirmed), excluding meals. We will notify members of the final confirmed details once available. Whilst priority will of course be given to HKIP members, we may reserve some places for HKIA members,  professionals with focus on community development and environmental scientists. We believe that experience sharing and knowledge transfer with participants from these related fields can encourage "cross-professional” interaction and synergy building.

Since the planned schedule covers the Easter holiday which requires advance booking of flights and hotel accommodation, please indicate your interest to join on or before 4 February 2010 (by e-mail to Monique at hkiplann@netvigator.com or to Ms Y.Y. Pong at pong.yy@gmail.com ) . A deposit would be required once we have confirmed the group size, itinerary and cost of the tour.

Y.Y. Pong
The HKIP Award 2010
Organising Committee
January 2010