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SDG1.4.3 Programmes for services access Year: 2021

People are at the core of sustainable development. NCUE is duty-bound to create a fair, just, and inclusive future. It is vital to promote sustainability and improve everyone’s access to basic services. To eradicate poverty, NCUE organises training and projects to improve students’ and related interest groups’ access to basic services. The measures are as follows:

1.NCUE actively improves everyone’s access to basic services with various projects.

To care for the community with high-quality education and reduce inequality, NCUE seeks to improve everyone’s access to basic services by implementing various projects (e.g. Ministry of Science and Technology projects, Ministry of Education projects, University Social Responsibility (USR) Projects, University Social Responsibility (USR) Hub Projects), offering language courses, sending groups to serve remote areas, and holding open seminars and community education activities.

2.NCUE implements plans, integrates resources, achieves goals, and obtains fruitful results.

The relevant plans, policies, and results on education, service, electricity, health are as follows:

Category

Responsible units

Plan/policy

Highlights

Education

Centre for Teacher Education

2021 [Science Popularization activity: The Power of Gentleness—Natural Science Inquiry and Hands-on Workshop for High School Girls and “Meeting Female Scientists” Program (Theme Two)] (Please see Appendix 1.4.3A)

1. Conducted science inquiry and hands-on workshops for students and held nine sessions in five female high schools with 222 students.

2.Conducted “Meeting Female Scientists” Seminar, invited outstanding female scientists or university professors across Taiwan and alumni with outstanding performance in STEM fields to give lectures and attended by 203 students from five schools.

3. Guided the female students from five participating high schools to document and reflect on their participation of the activities in a comprehensive and systematic manner. A learning history file was created by 20 students participating in the project.

4. A total of 84 teachers participated in the Natural Science Inquiry and Practice Workshop for senior high school teachers.

Education

Department of Physics

2021 [Science popularization activity University and senior high school collaboration on the promotion of science popularization programs in rural areas of Changhua County through a service-learning model (Theme 3)] (Please refer to Appendix 1.4.3B)

1. Trained 170 science volunteers and held two consensus camps, four training workshops, and eight community events.

2. Invited ten rural high schools to participate in the “Science Fun Day” and the “Baisha Education Carnival.” A total of 339 senior high school students participated in these events.

3. Recorded twenty-five instructional videos, design 28 posters on barrier   introduction and recorded eight videos on science camp activities.

4. Guided science volunteers to create learning files, including 28 posters, 24 activity plans, 25 science stories, 8 activity videos, and 122 reflection records, and published the outcomes and presented awards.

5. A total of 83 teachers, 668 rural high school students, 15 community members, 252 science volunteers, 3,138 science volunteer hours, 4.67 points for science learning motivation, and 4.68 points for activity satisfaction.

Education

Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics

2021 [Science popularization activity: promotion of caring for disadvantaged school-children science inquiry activities and Science Day for All (Theme 4)] (Please see Annex 1.4.3C)

A total of 49 teams participated in the 2021 HomeRun Science Creative Competition, including 39 teams in the high school group and 10 teams in the elementary school group. The topics included “Roll with Fun” and “Rotary Plane.” The Roll with Fun was designed via rotational inertia, while the Rotary Plane utilized Bernoulli’s Principle, Gyroscopic Effect, Flat Plate Lift, and other phenomena.

Education

Special Education Centre*

The Project of Recruiting and Guiding Students with Physical and Mental Disabilities by Universities and Colleges 2021 (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3D)

Provided relevant support services to NCUE students with physical and mental disabilities; 1663 people received help with learning, 331 people help with daily life, 67 people received help with the transition to employment, and 124 received guidance and counselling services

Education

Special Education Centre

The implementation plan of Changhua–Nantou–Yunlin Region’s Special Education Identification and Guidance (Enhancing Professional Competency) 2021 (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3E)

Held 19 professional competency activities, including 13 special education competency study groups, four thematic case study seminars, one international academic seminar, and one workshops

Education

Special Education Centre

Special Education Centre’s Counselling Project for Students with Disabilities 2021 (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3F)

1. Served a total of 43 people

2. Paid seven visits to schools to provide counselling services

3. Published two issues of the Special Educator’s Journal to benefit special education departments, special education resource centers, special education administrative entities, faculties and students at all levels, and community members across Taiwan.

4. Conducted one counseling session on transition (to university/college life) for disabled college students and one liaison meeting for disabled university/college students on their transition to life in a higher education institution.

Education

Department of Physics

The second phase (2020 to 2022) of NCUE Social Responsibility (USR) Projects: ‘Baisha x Common Good Education: Twelve-Year Compulsory Education Project in Rural Areas’ (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3G)

1. Organised one-week ‘Baisha x Common Good Education’ camps in eleven rural secondary and primary schools in four counties and cities, serving 311 students

2. Using career exploration assessment tools to serve 31 disadvantaged students from one rural schools, helping them complete individual career-expectation blueprints

Education

Language Centre

Language courses (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3H)

Held 52 foreign language classes for 640 trainees.

Education

College of Extension Education

Public lectures and community education activities (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3I)

Provided courses on senior education (12 classes, 383 person-times), enhancement of teachers’ capabilities (67 courses, 1,420 person-times), industrial training (85 classes, 2,548 person-times), and various continuing education courses (56 classes, 1,401 person-times)

Electricity

Department of Electrical Engineering

Green Vision, remarkable plans (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3J)

Promoted community green energy education by conducting activities on home energy saving skills, biomass DIY courses, and community action courses to integrate environmental education into the learning and application of life technology applications to promote renewable energy applications and energy transformation. Approximately 59 participants.

Electricity

Department of Electrical Engineering

University Social Responsibility Hub (USR Hub): ‘Energy and Technology Education Development with Changhua’s Uniqueness’ (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3K)

Organized four sessions on AI-based smart vehicles with image recognition, and attracted 95 participants from off-campus.

Health

Graduate Institute of Sports and Health

University Social Responsibility Hub (USR Hub) USR: Training Muscle Power for happy life in Northern Changhua: Enjoying Sports Project (Please refer to Annex 1.4.3L)

1. Offered muscle training, fun physical fitness, and mindfulness yoga courses, plus mental health cognitive services in stations

2. Worked with Show Chwan Memorial Hospital to provide health promotion activities and services for the elderly and the general public

3. Established U-first Sports Professional Guidance Team, with 11 seed teachers and 37 volunteers. In the 110th Academic Year, 7,100 people were served and organized various professional sports coaching and consulting activities.

4.“U-First GYM” 5-25 minute online coaching on home exercise on YouTube during the Covid-19 period

5. Since mid-October of the 110 Academic Year, assisted the Simplyicr Caring Association in Xiaoling Ding of Changhua County by providing sports coaching services.

Service

Extracurricular Activities Team, Office of Student Affairs

Service Clubs - Mountain Service Club ,Fishing Village Service Club, Rural Service Club

(Please refer to Annex 1.4.3M)

Held three service activities with 86 participants

1.4.3
Photo: Science volunteers guiding junior high school students in doing buoyancy experiment

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Photo: “Nordic Walking” community senior exercise teaching

 

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