NCUE continues to initiate and participate in studies and conferences on interdepartmental communications about sustainable development goals. Last year, we presented the content of 9 seminars held in 2021. This year, 13 seminars held in 2022 were compiled. The details of each seminar are explained as follows:

1. The College of Technology and Vocational Education organized the “2022 International Society of Mechatronic Engineering Annual Conference and the 7^th National Academic Symposium”. The International Society of Mechatronic Engineering aims to expand the academic and higher education platform in the field of mechanical and electrical engineering, and establish friendship between researchers and academic institutions to promote the exchange of technologies and knowledge of the fields of machinery, mechanical and electrical engineering, energy and materials, further building long-term collaboration. After seven years of hard work, the International Society of Mechatronic Engineering has become a large-scale academic group well-known both at home and abroad. It regularly organizes large-scale academic seminars both at home and abroad every year to communicate current important research topics, and it has a certain influence in the academic field of mechanical and electrical engineering. The College of Technology and Vocational Education (then a vocational college) co-organizes events with the International Society of Mechatronic Engineering. The event enables our students and teachers to communicate face-to-face with well-known domestic practitioners in the field of electromechanical engineering. Figures 1-2 below show the event held.

Campus headlines: https://www.ncue.edu.tw/p/406-1000-7405,r93.php?Lang=zh-tw.

SDGs relevance: Quality Education; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Partnerships for the Goals

2. The Department of Physics held “The Symposium for Early Career Astronomers”. The Symposium for Early Career Astronomers (SECA) is a meeting for young astronomy/astrophysics faculties in Taiwan to know and interact with each other. Senior faculty are invited to share their experiences, such as research proposals, teaching, and career suggestions. Figures 3-5 below show the event held.

SDGs relevance: Quality Education; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

3. The College of Engineering held the IET ICETA 2022. The event theme was Emerging Technologies and Applications for Smart Life, which explored emerging technologies and applications of technological smart life in today’s society. Figure 6 below shows the event poster.

SDGs relevance: Quality Education; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Partnerships for The Goals

4. Professor Li-Wei Tseng of the Department of Mechatronics Engineering was invited to serve as the session chair of the 2022 Digital Life Technology Seminar. The supporting information is detailed in Annex 17.2.2A.

SDGs relevance: Quality Education; Partnerships for The Goals

5. The College of Education and the Association for Curriculum and Instruction served as the organizers, and the Chinese Educational Innovation and Development Association, the Department of Guidance and Counseling, the Graduate Institute of Science Education, and the College of Extension Education of the University served as the supporting organizers of the “Ubiquitous Learning and Innovative Teaching Academic Seminar and the 45th Curriculum and Teaching Forum”. Associate Professor Chih-Hung Wang of the Graduate Institute of Science Education and Professor Yuling You of the Department of English invited two foreign and two domestic keynote speakers to the event. One of the domestic scholars served as the speaker at the Education Innovation and Development Forum. A roundtable discussion was held to discuss 6 papers. After review, 18 submitted articles were published. 10 domestic scholars served as moderators and reviewers of different sessions of paper publications, and the submitted articles were closely related to the two topics of ubiquitous learning and innovative teaching. Figures 7-10 below show the event held.

Campus headlines: https://www.ncue.edu.tw/p/406-1000-7475,r93.php?Lang=zh-tw.

SDGs relevance: Quality Education

6. The College of Education organized the “Education Foresight and Issues Trend Forum on Establishment of a Systemic Thinking - Daily Practices of Systemic Dialogue”. The College of Education has actively promoted the exemplary vision of localization, professionalism, and internationalization as its outstanding characteristics. It has gradually become an advocate of decision-making on major domestic education issues. On the afternoon of March 30, 2022, it organized its first “Education Foresight and Issues Trend Forum”, and collaborated with the Department of Guidance and Counseling to invite Professor Li-An Kuo (currently the chairman of the Taiwan Guidance and Counseling Association) of the Department of Guidance and Counseling as the keynote speaker and Professor Shu-Chu Chao (currently the vice chairman of the Taiwan Guidance and Counseling Association) as a panelist, with Professor Tsung-Chain Huang, the dean of College of Education, serving as the moderator to talk about the topic “Establishment of a Systemic Thinking - Daily Practices of Systemic Dialogue” in family therapy, which initiated a very exciting and lively discussion and dialogue with the teachers and students attending the event. Figures 11-13 below show the event held.

Campus headlines: https://www.ncue.edu.tw/p/406-1000-7268,r93.php?Lang=zh-tw.

SDGs relevance: Good Health and Well-Being

7. The College of Education organized the “Education Foresight and Issues Trend Forum on the Beauty and Dejection of Rural Education”. The event had Professor Tsung-Chain Huang, the dean of the College of Education, as the moderator and Professor Chung-Ping Yang invited Professor Sheng-Yao Cheng (who is a professor and the director of the Graduate Institute of Education and the assistant dean of the College of Education of National Chung Cheng University) to be the keynote speaker, and CEO Chih-Tao Li of the Kao Family Education Foundation as panelists to offer their insights through the forum. The forum was also available online for teachers and students who were not able to attend the event. Figures 14-16 below show the event held.

Campus headlines: https://www.ncue.edu.tw/p/406-1000-7790,r93.php?Lang=zh-tw.

SDGs relevance: Quality Education

8. The Graduate Institute of Rehabilitation Counseling organized the “2022 Taiwan Vocational Rehabilitation Association Annual Conference” to discuss the latest international trends and domestic vocational rehabilitation professional development issues, further expanding the horizons of practitioners involved in the field for people with disabilities. It also served as an exchange platform between academia and industry practitioners to organize forum sessions and paper publications. Figures 17-20 below show the event held.

Registration link: https://reurl.cc/z6Eyxy.

SDGs relevance: Reduced Inequalities

9. The Graduate Institute of Science Education of National Changhua University of Education organized the 37^th ASET. The central theme of the event was the “interdisciplinary learning and teacher training in science education”, which covered STEM/STEAM education, teaching and learning for ability development, literacy-based evaluation, pre-service teacher training and professional growth of in-service teachers, digital learning environment, smart learning, and other key issues both at home and abroad. The abovementioned topics, such as STEM/STEAM education, literacy-based evaluation, etc., all adhere to Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education, emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinary core competencies as the main theme of curriculum development. It is believed that through the event, the participating researchers and teachers can jointly develop and share more curriculum modules that are helpful in developing students’ core competencies. The international exchanges can also help domestic teachers become more familiar with the design of literacy-based evaluation. The supporting information is detailed in Annex 17.2.2B.

Campus headlines: https://www.ncue.edu.tw/p/406-1000-6522,r93.php?Lang=zh-tw.

SDGs relevance: Quality Education; Reduced Inequalities

10. Professor Der-Jiunn Deng of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering held the “EAI SGIoT 2022 - 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Internet of Things” and communicated with other international domain experts on smart grid and the IoT topics which were in line with the development goals of domestic emerging technology industries. The list of committee members is detailed in Figure 21 below.

Event Website: https://sgiot.eai-conferences.org/2022/.

SDGs relevance: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Partnerships for the Goals

11. The Special Education Center organized the “2021 International Symposium on Career Development and Transition of Special Education Students”. The symposium invited scholars from the US, South Korea, and Singapore to deliver keynote speeches, and domestic scholars and experts in the related fields at the event also shared their academic studies on the career development and transition issues of special education students for in-depth discussions. The Special Education Center also arranged activities for oral presentations and paper publications, so that professionals working in the special education-related fields could share their research findings on career development and transition of special education students. Figures 22-23 below show the event held. The official website for the 2021 International Symposium on Career Development and Transition of Special Education Students:

https://sites.google.com/view/2021ncue.

SDGs relevance: Good Health and Well-Being; Quality Education; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Reduced Inequalities; Partnerships for the Goals

12. The Department of Business Administration organized an online international seminar on the “Comparison of Taiwan’s and Japan’s SME Networks”. Our school, Niigata University of Japan, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, and Soochow University co-organized a joint forum. The seminar focused on the networks of SMEs constructed for value co-creation. Presentations and sharing of cases in Taiwan and Japan clarified the unique characteristics and commonalities of each place. The presentations carried out in the seminar attempted to construct a theoretical framework and model for future relevant academic research, and it is hoped that the event can contribute to the SMEs and the value co-creation networks of each region. Figure 24 below shows the event agenda.

SDGs relevance: Decent Work and Economic Growth; Partnerships for The Goals

13. The Department of Business Administration organized the 2022 Niigata, Taichung, and Changhua Regional Industry International Online Seminar to analyze the industry transaction relationship network in the three regions, including the comparative analysis of the transaction network among enterprises in the local industry cluster in Niigata, Japan, the local bicycle industry cluster and supply chain in central Taiwan, and the current status and future development of industries in Changhua, Taiwan, further promoting the development of the local industry through international exchanges. Figure 25 below shows the event agenda.

SDGs relevance: Decent Work and Economic Growth; Partnerships for The Goals

Annex:

Annex: 17.2.2A - SS24-Assistant Professor Li-Wei Tseng

Annex: 17.2.2B - Final report for the 37^th ASET held in 2021 - Sung-Pei Chien