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To facilitate interested organisations to understand the Invitation Brief for the Provision of Intermediary Services for the SIE Fund, a briefing session was held on both 11 and 17 March 2014. Representatives of the Secretariat of the SIE Fund Task Force introduced the roles of intermediaries and explained the eligibility, application procedures, assessment criteria and some key engagement terms. Questions from the floor were taken. Interested parties may refer to the presentation slides and video record (Cantonese with options for Chinese and English subtitles).

Meanwhile, to enhance public understanding of the SIE Fund and social innovation, a series of videos has been produced and uploaded to the Fund's YouTube channel. The videos, together with a series of articles, are being posted on the Social Enterprise Gallery at etnet as well.

To enhance public understanding of SIE Fund and encourage cross-sector collaboration, the Youtube channel 'To know more about SIE Fund' and the first batch of videos are online. SIE Fund Task Force Members explain in the videos the idea of 'capacity building' – one of the priorities of the Fund and for the intermediaries, and other important concepts about SIE Fund and social innovation.

One of the priorities of the SIE Fund is a "flagship project" on food support. After several months' of foundation work, the project has entered a new stage of engaging different sectors and professions to form cross-disciplinary working teams. An idea generation session was held on 4 March with an aim to collect ideas on how to strengthen the food support mechanism. Participants included operators of food support projects, NGOs, hotels, caterers, supermarkets, real estate developers, IT, logistics, design, environmental protection, related government departments and SIE Fund Task Force Members. Another sharing session and several visits to operating units of food support projects were also conducted in mid-February.