NCUE has actively collaborated with local communities, elementary schools, junior high schools, vocational senior high schools, charitable organizations, local businesses, and local governments to establish resource linkages, create collaboration platforms, and collectively devise plans and policies aimed at eliminating all forms of poverty. Additionally, NCUE has executed relevant initiatives within local communities, elementary schools, junior high schools, vocational senior high schools, charitable organizations, and local businesses. Relevant outcomes are as follows:

1. On November 17, 2022, the Department of Physics of NCUE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Formosa Petrochemical Corporation (Figures 1-2). This collaboration is geared towards supporting the advancement of local science education, with a particular focus on enhancing science education for disadvantaged children and students in remote areas in Yunlin. This partnership contributes to the integration of local science education resources, improves the quality of teaching in elementary schools and junior high schools, facilitates talent exchange, promotes collaborative research projects, and strengthens NCUE’s commitment to social responsibility.

Additionally, in collaboration with Yuan T. Lee Foundation Science Education for All, NCUE organized science camps, fostering hands-on learning experiences through scientific research, competitions, and other activities to enhance students’ practical skills. By bringing science education to remote areas, NCUE aims to boost students’ scientific capabilities, provide real-world learning experiences, and help them overcome poverty to improve their future opportunities.

Furthermore, this collaboration allows for the integration of personnel and resources from both parties to enhance science and environmental education, promote science popularization, and encourage elementary schools and junior high schools to value science education. In the future, NCUE plans to deepen the collaboration by conducting research projects and R&D initiatives, establishing a technology collaboration platform, enhancing research and development capabilities, and assisting in the upgrading of industries.

In 2022, NCUE organized various events, including Yuan T. Lee’s Science Winter (Summer) Camp, Yuan T. Lee’s Junior High School Math and Science Promotion Program, Yuan T. Lee’s Science Contest, Science Rooted Program (Tong An Elementary School, Hu Dong Elementary School, and Ma Tsuo Elementary School), and science winter (summer) camps for the visually and hearing impaired, benefiting a total of 6,500 students. (Figures 3-4)

Yuan T. Lee’s Changhua Science Camp fan page: https://www.facebook.com/ytleeorg/?locale=zh_TW

2. To fulfill the university social responsibility, “NCUE × Common Good Education” team has formed the “Baisha Quality Education Alliance” in collaboration with 12 rural schools in Taichung City, Changhua County, Nantou County, Yunlin County, and Penghu County, as well as National Taichung University of Education. This alliance harnesses strategic educational synergy, resource integration, and the enhancement of rural education quality. The objective is to cultivate a greater number of highly qualified educators, offer increased support, and actively address the educational challenges prevalent in rural areas. NCUE collaborates closely with educators from partner schools, designing curricula that integrate local characteristics and cultural elements, developing localized competency-based and interdisciplinary courses, enhancing the learning, digital literacy, and career readiness of students from rural schools, boosting their motivation to learn and their overall academic performance, implementing the spirit of holistic education in the 12-Year Basic Education, fostering core competencies in students from rural schools, and achieving the ideals of self-motivation, interaction, and Common Good. In 2022, during the summer break, NCUE conducted one-week “NCUE × Common Good” camps in 6 rural elementary and junior high schools across 2 counties, serving approximately 320 students. Through career exploration-related assessment tools, NCUE assisted about 52 disadvantaged students from 4 rural schools in completing individual student career aspiration blueprints.

Outcomes of the “NCUE × Common Good” Project in 2022: (Figures 5-8)

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