Invitation to APRU Members to Join CUPP 2024-2025 Tender

August 20, 2023

As the official partner of Cyberport Academy of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, APRU is delighted to invite our member universities to join the tendering of Cyberport Academy’s flagship program, Cyberport University Partnership Programme (CUPP), for organizing in-person entrepreneurship boot camps in 2024 and 2025 (i.e. total two boot camps) in your campus.

CUPP is a life-changing training plus competition programme to unleash full potential of 18-30 years old Hong Kong university teams to gain global market insights. Themed with FinTech, CUPP has nurtured over 400 talents in 70+ teams since 2015.

Cyberport Academy is now looking for a university as CUPP entrepreneurship boot camp hosting partner to provide mentorship, entrepreneurship training, company visits and cultural explore activities from international professionals. Please find the Tender Schedule as follows:

Tender Schedule	Due Date	Time (Hong Kong Time)
Interested universities to reply to Tender Notice by email	18 September 2023	12:00 noon
Online Briefing to Tenderers	20 September 2023	3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Tenderers’ Query Cut-off time (if tenderers have questions, they could send questions by email before the due date, and Cyberport will send email reply to the questions)	26 September 2023	12:00 noon
Tender Closing (Tenderers shall submit both technical proposal and fee proposal via Cyberport e-procurement system by the due date)	24 October 2023	12:00 noon
Tenderers Presentation (Tenderers are invited to present their technical proposals to tender assessors via online meeting, and to answer assessors’ questions)	26-27 October 2023	–
Contract Award	Late December 2023	–

Please find more details of the tender here.

About Cyberport

As the home of APRU’s International University Centre, Cyberport is the digital tech flagship of Hong Kong with an innovation digital community of over 1,650 start-ups and technology companies. With a vision to be the hub for digital technology for Hong Kong, Cyberport has worked closely with APRU since 2017 to launch the APRU Esports MetaGame Conference and partner on the Esports Fellowship Program.

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