HORIZON (瞻遠學者)

Increase your impact and connect with like-minded people

Do you care about doing good? Care about having a meaningful career? Care about effectiveness? Are you working in, or want to work in, a related field? Through this free programme, you'll learn the key ideas of Effective Altruism with a small group of other people who care deeply about improving the lives of others in the most effective ways they can. Guided by an experienced facilitator, you will learn new concepts, frameworks and counter intuitive ideas to help you have more impact in your career, donations and other projects.

Next round: Nov 22 & 29 (Saturdays) 2025

Application Deadline EXTENDED: Nov 19

Apply to the Horizon Programme!

With limited resources, how can we do the most good?

Doing good better is one of the defining challenges of our time. Given resource constraints, it is crucial that we make the most effective use of what we have in order to create the greatest positive impact possible. And this is essentially what the Horizon Programme is all about: The Horizon Programme helps you think about how to do good effectively and helps you to reflect on how to maximise your potential to make a difference.

The Horizon Programme is a free workshop bringing together core reading, interactive group discussions and activities, and more. We explore topics including the effectiveness mindset, global health/poverty, animal welfare, artificial Intelligence, etc., and how to get involved in careers contributing to some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Blog posts by past attendees

Dates and times

The Horizon Programme takes place over two weekends, covering the fundamental concepts of Effective Altruism. Each session is 5 hours (including 1 hour lunch break), involving group activities and discussions.

Dates: 22nd & 29th November 2025 (Saturdays)

Time: 10am to 3pm (including 1 hour lunch break)

Location: The Hive Wan Chai, 21/F, The Phoenix, 23 Luard Rd, Wan Chai

Cost: Completely FREE

Agenda and Learning Outcomes

Day 1

Session 1.1: Introduction to Principles of Effective Altruism

- Lunch hour -

Session 1.2: Thinking empathically: who and how much?

By the end of the day, you will...

Know:

Facts about how far humanity has come, and how much room for improvement exists
Some main EA cause areas
Something about the EA landscape in Hong Kong
The definition of scope insensitivity
The idea of an expanding moral circle

Understand:

Four basic ideas you agree with that lead to the logical conclusion of EA
The fundamental principles of EA's effectiveness mindset, including impartiality
Inspiration/optimism about the human trajectory and individual capacity to do as much good as possible
The need to overcome scope insensitivity
The possibility of an ongoing moral catastrophe
That debate around the moral patienthood of non-human animals

Be able to:

Use online resources from the EA internet to explore cause areas of interest.
Use double cruxing as a technique to collaboratively resolve disagreements

Day 2

Session 1.3: Thinking rationally about global health

- Lunch hour -

Session 1.4: Thinking long-term

By the end of the day, you will...

Know:

The definition of the scout mindset
Differences in impact are huge
How to use the ITN framework
The definition of existential risks, existential catastrophe, longtermism
The future is vast and humanity’s potential is large
Future people deserve moral patienthood
Now is a point of unusual influence over humanity’s future

Understand:

Our intuitions are often wrong
Our intuitions about frequency, probability and scale are often wrong.
Our intuitions about global health are often wrong
The moral imperative toward cost-effectiveness in global health
The reasoning for axiological strong longtermism (ASL)
Some arguments for/against strong longtermism
Implications for international and Asian philanthropy

Be able to:

Make more calibrated estimates
Do expected value calculations
Make Fermi estimates
Use the ITN framework to think about cause prioritisation
Explain in brief the reasoning for axiological strong longtermism (ASL)

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Thinking about your next step: Putting EA into Practice

In addition to Horizon Programme, EAHK periodically organises a standalone 1.5hr introductory session to support individuals in discovering ways to make real-world impact. The topics covered include:

The landscape of EA and opportunities to take action

Three Guest Speakers

Sharing their career journeys
Q&A

Taking Action with EAHK and Beyond

Booking a 1-1 chat with a career advisor.
Joining the Community Building team
Volunteer projects

Past speakers include:

Jenny Xiao
- VC Fellow at Leonis Capital, investing in Early-Stage AI Startups.
- PhD (ABD) at Columbia University on the International Political Economy of AI.
Andy Tao
- Finance associate at Effective Ventures Foundation.
- Former renewable energy data analyst at Bloomberg.
Cynthia Chen
- AI alignment researcher; PhD student at ETH Zurich
TSE Yip Fai
- Researcher on ethics for AI at Princeton University; Research assistant to Peter Singer.
- Former strategy consultant at Mercy for Animals.
Austin Zhang
- Trader at Jane Street.
Anthony Lau
- Director of Effective Altruism Hong Kong.

Our Alumni Say

" I have always longed for a place where I can engage in intellectual discussions with people who also want to do good to the world through their work. The Horizon Programme provided exactly such a venue and it was an exhilarating experience to talk to people with different backgrounds and opinions. I hope the pandemic restriction will soon pass so this cohort of fellows can meet face to face to further engage in intellectual discussion.

Ronald Leung, Senior Associate at Moody's