RELATIONSHIPS WITH NGOs AND GOVERNMENT FOR SDG POLICY

Taipei Tech participates in government projects and regional non-government organizations’ sustainable development goals and policy initiatives. On average, we take part in 10 projects per year in fields such as hydrological monitoring, the exploration and promotion of sustainable campuses, watershed conservation management evaluations, and offshore wind power surveys.

In addition, professors from Taipei Tech serve as policy advisors in the Executive Yuan and Taipei City Government, where they assist government or regional NGOs in formulating regulations and directly influence the sustainable development goals and policies of the national government.

Taipei Tech held the Challenge and Response to Promoting Circular Economy and Sustainable Development Forum on July, 2020, and invited experts from benchmark enterprises, think tanks, and academic circles along with the public sector at home and abroad to share their experiences, challenges, and practices in promoting the circular economy, including
 green policies, the challenges faced by enterprises, and circular economy business models.

BEST PRACTICE IN COLLABORATION FOR SDGs  

Taipei Tech is an important participant in international academic collaborations involving SDG data collection and analysis. For example, in 2020, we analyzed environmental impacts and did a cost-benefit analysis for open field vs. greenhouse cultivation in Taiwan and Australia. Taipei Tech also cooperates with Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and Kyushu University in Japan on research exchanges involving Agroecology, youth residence design, humanitarian architecture, water and soil conservation, and eco-friendly landscape restoration.

Taipei Tech publishes an annual report that reveals its performance in terms of university social responsibility. Under the leadership of Prof. Chih-Hong Huang, Taipei Tech promoted local produce to Malaysia in cooperation with the Quri Atayal tribe of Jianshi Township in Hsinchu County. Our teachers and students who participated in this program are dedicated to building eco-friendly farms and developing innovative marketing, and then initiating natural agricultural technology exchanges with other indigenous communities at home and abroad.

Taipei Tech also coordinates with the Eng Meng Tsai Charitable Foundation’s "Send Love to the Countryside" project, which provides financial assistance to disadvantaged families; cooperates with the Baby Coaching Association to promote woodcraft culture courses and aesthetic education; and executed the Shiding Yongan Tea Fragrance New Source Project with the Shiding Tourism Association to assist the local development of Shiding District.