Home and Youth Affairs Bureau launches HYAB Youth Start-up Internship Programme 2025

     The Home and Youth Affairs Bureau (HYAB) has partnered with the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited (Cyberport) and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) to launch the HYAB Youth Start-up Internship Programme 2025 (the Programme) today (January 22) to provide young people with internship opportunities at local start-ups.
      
     The HYAB is committed to promoting youth development. In 2021, the HYAB launched the Programme on a pilot basis. Following the success of the pilot programme, the HYAB regularised and expanded the Programme in 2023 in collaboration with Cyberport and the HKSTP. The Programme provides internship placements at start-ups for young people every year, with a view to fostering their interest in pursuing a career in innovation and technology (I&T), and nurturing talent for the industry in support of Hong Kong's overall direction of promoting I&T development.
      
     Under the new round of the Programme, Cyberport and the HKSTP will provide 200 internship placements of three to six months funded by the HYAB, covering various disciplines such as data analysis, fintech, biotech, artificial intelligence applications, business development, marketing and design, etc. The participating companies can engage interns on a full-time, part-time or mixed basis. Applicants should be aged between 18 and 30, are (i) a full time post-secondary student (including sub-degree, undergraduate, or postgraduate) holding a Hong Kong permanent identity card; or (ii) a local full-time post-secondary student (including sub-degree, undergraduate, or postgraduate) holding a Hong Kong identity card. Apart from internship placements, Cyberport and the HKSTP will also arrange a series of training and entrepreneurial experience activities and visits to start-ups in Mainland cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
      
     Details of the Programme and information about the internship placements are now available on the dedicated webpages of Cyberport and the HKSTP. Interested young people should submit applications to companies via the electronic application system on the webpages. Upon receipt of the applications, participating companies will conduct assessments to select suitable applicants to take forward the internship arrangements.