SDG 16.2.4
SDG 16.2.4 Participatory bodies for stakeholder engagement
Each unit in NCUE provides various services within its responsibilities to local residents, local governments, local private enterprises, and representatives of local civil society.
1. Professional counseling services provided by the Community Counseling and Human Development Service Center.
In 2025 the Community Counseling and Human Development Service Center held one lecture or workshop, the Sandplay x Body x Family Constellation 2025 Jungian Analysis Professional Workshop (Figure 1), attended by 15 people. Further information: https://humanweb.ncue.edu.tw/p/426-1021-11.php?Lang=zh-tw
2. The Student Safety Section of the Office of Student Affairs provides students with off-campus rental services, matching community residents offering rental housing with students seeking accommodation and improving living conditions.
(1) In the 2025 academic year, the class tutors visited the off-campus residences rented by students. 100 visit records were submitted to the Student Safety Section, which carried out 50 sample building-safety inspections.
(2) There are 50 landlords cooperating with NCUE for a total of 510 rooms in 51 buildings.
(3) On 19 and 21 February 2025, NCUE completed the inspection and certification of 19 off-campus student rental properties.
(4) On 27 May 2025, NCUE held a seminar on off-campus rental safety for students, at which invited experts and scholars spoke on rental safety. The seminar aimed to raise students’ awareness of off-campus housing safety and improve their understanding of legal compliance, with the goal of preventing rights infringements and potentially hazardous situations.
(5) In mid-June 2025, NCUE sent a letter setting out off-campus rental precautions to the parents of students entering their second year.
(6) NCUE established a Line group for participating landlords to facilitate real-time communication, contact, and exchanges.
(7) NCUE helped handle 3 off-campus rental disputes involving students in 2025.
3. NCUE’s College of Extension Education provides continuous education courses, and the Language Center offers Mandarin courses.
NCUE's College of Extension Education, in accordance with its training and development policy, collaborates annually with government agencies, corporate organizations, and institutions to organize educational training courses after assessing the training needs of stakeholders. Additionally, it independently plans and implements community education activities. These initiatives enable community members and the general public to participate based on their individual continuing education and learning requirements. The following courses were offered:
(1) Language Learning Classes: The College offers various language courses enabling community residents to develop their foreign language skills. The courses include English, Japanese, Korean, French, Vietnamese, German, Spanish, Thai and Indonesian. In 2025, the College offered 18 classes totaling 552 class hours, with 279 completions.
(2) Quarterly Mandarin Classes: As an institution authorized by the Ministry of Education to recruit international students for Mandarin study, NCUE has long promoted Mandarin education courses every year. These courses provide global learners with an opportunity to study Mandarin either in person or online. In 2024, the Mandarin language courses were offered in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter terms, along with online group and individual classes. A total of 186 course completion were recorded. In 2025, the same spring, summer, autumn and winter terms and online group and individual classes were offered, with 280 course completion. For more information about the courses, please visit our official website: https://lcch.ncue.edu.tw/curriculum_season?lang=zh-TW1
(3) Community Senior University: To give older members of the community a chance to continue learning, NCUE has run the Changhua County Senior University since 1995, encouraging Changhua County residents aged 55 and over to return to campus. In 2024, NCUE held two 16-week terms with 28 classes in total, recording 882 course completion; in 2025, it again held two 16-week terms with 28 classes, recording 893 course completion. The classes cover Japanese, English, calligraphy, Chinese painting, art and smartphone applications. (As shown in Figure 2, Figure3)
(4) Secondary School Teacher Professional Development: Each year, NCUE offers second specialty and professional development course to meet the teacher training needs of the Ministry of Education and secondary schools and to assist in-service educators in enhancing their teaching competencies. In 2025, NCUE ran 49 courses in fields including Taiwanese Hokkien, information technology, living technology, bilingual teaching, scouting education and special education, providing 2,322 hours of training and recording a total of 1,200 attendances. (Figure 4)
(5) Training Program for Principals and Directors of Elementary and Junior High Schools on School Management Competencies: As the only secondary teacher training institution in central Taiwan, NCUE has been organizing an annual " Training Program for Principals and Directors of Elementary and Junior High Schools on School Management Competencies " since 2020 to fulfill its university social responsibility. Each course lasts four months, and by 2025 it had trained 98 senior administrative leaders for primary and secondary schools. (Figure 5)
(6) Industrial and Commercial Talent Development in Changhua County: NCUE is located in Changhua County. To support local businesses to nurture talent and ensure they can adapt to modern challenges and operate sustainably, the university has collaborated with the Changhua County Government and private enterprises. Since 2016, the university has held annual training courses for second-generation successors and female leaders in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These courses equip participants with skills in management, innovative business operation, digital marketing, communication and negotiation. Since the initiative began, 463 participants have successfully completed the training. (Figure 6)
(7) To support working professionals in continuing their education and enhancing their workplace competencies, the university designs vocational training courses based on the needs of community residents and local industries. In 2025, the university offered a total of 128 courses, providing 3,838 hours of training and helping 2,263 trainees improve their knowledge and abilities. (Figure 7)
(8) NCUE also offers various community extension education courses on business operations, information technology, business management, marketing, and handicrafts enabling community residents to pursue self-growth in their areas of interest. In 2025, NCUE offered 58 courses for a total of 1,157 training hours, attracting 811 registrations. (Figure 8)
4. NCUE Provides Services to Local Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Promotes Industry-Academia Collaboration:
(1) In 2025, the Innovation Incubation Center of NCUE's Office of Research and Development carried out the Cross-Domain Promotion Program for Smart Technology Value-Added Innovation in Industrial Parks and the Integrated Promotion Program for Cross-Park Low-Carbon Transition in the Dali Industrial Park and the Fuxing, Pitou and Tianzhong industrial parks. It provided companies with short-term technical guidance, low-carbon management guidance and talent development, and helped them obtain government funding. The results are as follows (Figures 9 and 10):
(a) Industrial park guidance program
(2) Faculty members from various colleges of NCUE apply their expertise to assist local enterprises in research and development and related applications. These include special research projects, material exchange, testing and inspection, technical services, consultancy, patent applications, technology transfer, innovation incubation, and talent development. In 2025, NCUE ran 108 industry-academia collaboration projects with companies and legal entities, worth NT$72,104,645 in total. For more details on the results: https://rndweb.ncue.edu.tw/p/426-1005-23.php
(3) We provide financial support to students for conducting thematic explorations through special projects. This initiative aims to closely integrate Industry dynamics into the teaching and learning process, effectively bridging the gap between theory and practice. Through interdisciplinary and inter-college collaboration, we foster strong team-based relationships. To encourage students to engage in diverse learning, the program is divided into five categories: Industry-Academia Collaboration, Interdisciplinary Integration, Competitions, Themed Special Projects and Undergraduate Research Projects. In 2025, we supported 99 project teams, involving 308 students, with a total of NTD$500,453 in financial support. Please refer to: https://acadaff.ncue.edu.tw/var/file/2/1002/img/1046/million_project.html
5. Courses and Activities Organized by NCUE’s Bilingual Research Center-Related
To provide pre-service teachers and in-service teachers with opportunities for professional growth in bilingual teaching, NCUE's Bilingual Teaching Research Center organized multiple bilingual teaching-related lectures and workshop activities in 2025, including the Seminar on Bilingual Education and English Enhancement on 16 July 2025, at which bilingual teachers were invited to share teaching experiences and explain how to use AI software to assist bilingual teaching. These activities trained pre-service teachers and in-service teachers to use software effectively to enhance course design skills.
Additionally, we organize bilingual class observations and bilingual experimental teaching demonstrations from time to time, allowing pre-service teachers to understand real-life teaching situations and learn how to prepare while still studying, thereby developing their bilingual teaching competencies. NCUE will continue to work in accordance with the Ministry of Education’s plans to support the implementation of the 2030 bilingual policy and enhance teachers' English proficiency (Figure 11).
Related website link: https://clil.ncue.edu.tw/news.php?2
6. On 24 October 2025, NCUE's Science Education Center, College of Science and College of Engineering jointly organized the 2025 Science Fun Day.
NCUE has held Science Fun Day since 2016 and expanded it from 2021. In 2025 more than ten schools partnering with NCUE's science popularization projects took part and over 500 people attended; community residents could also register on the day. National Changhua Girls' Senior High School has run the hands-on science stalls for many years and helps deliver the activities. Because the event is held alongside NCUE's anniversary fair, it is livelier than a typical academic event and draws students, faculty and members of the public. For this edition, the College of Science and the College of Engineering prepared science activities in three zones built around everyday life: the Science Magic Zone, the Science Adventure Zone and the Science Exploration Zone. The College of Science also opened its laboratories, where graduate students explained current research in accessible terms so that visitors could see what scientific research involves and students could use it when planning their studies. Rural schools were invited and their coach fares subsidized, giving them a stage to show their own characteristics, the competency-based teaching of pre-service teachers and their students’ learning achievements. Elementary, junior high and senior high schools in the Taichung, Changhua and Nantou area that work closely with NCUE also took part, including Chenggong Junior High School, Feisha Junior High School, Ching Cheng High School, Donghua Junior High School, Hsienhsi Junior High School, Daan Junior High School, Dacheng Junior High School and Tianjhong High School. The activities span many fields of science but are pitched so that elementary, junior high and senior high school students can experience science for themselves. Through the event, NCUE aims to bring the public closer to science and to show that scientific knowledge is not confined to textbooks: people can learn science through everyday life and learn about everyday life through science. It also helps build a better educational environment for children in rural Changhua, in line with the educational goal of achieving success for every child (Figure 12). Campus news: https://www.ncue.edu.tw/p/406-1000-32244,r623.php?Lang=zh-tw
