Climate Education and Awareness at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) 1. Climate and Sustainability Courses General Education and Required CoursesNTUST offers general education and required courses that cover sustainable development and climate change, such as Introduction to Sustainable Development. Through the Center for General Education and its Social Practice Course System, the university builds sustainability thinking and climate change issues into the core undergraduate curriculum. The Center groups its courses and student social practice projects under SDG 13 ("Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"). Examples include beach clean-ups, a mountain clean-up volunteer trip to Mt. North Dawu, campus tree care, and environmental and ecological education for rural communities (APUVA). In 2025 the Center launched the Interdisciplinary Micro-Program in Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility. Undergraduates who complete at least 9 credits receive a certificate. The required course is Introduction to USR and Sustainable Development, and electives include Sustainable Development and Society I and II and The EU, Globalisation and the SDGs.At the graduate level, courses include Climate Change Policy and Law (TM6170), offered by the Graduate Institute of Technology Management, which examines climate governance, regulation and decarbonisation pathways. According to the Commercial Times (December 2024), NTUST offers about 1,500 courses a year with SDG and USR content, with about 50,000 enrolments. The university was selected from 162 entries for the Executive Yuan's 2024 National Sustainable Development Award (Education category), recognising its smart energy management, greenhouse gas inventory and sustainability education.Related web pages Center for General Education: SDG 13 Climate Action courses and social practice outcomes https://cla.ntust.edu.tw/p/412-1076-9437.php?Lang=zh-twRegulations for the Interdisciplinary Micro-Program in Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility (2 May 2025)https://www.academic.ntust.edu.tw/var/file/48/1048/img/2550/147415661.pdfNTUST Social Practice Course Systemhttps://sp.cge.ntust.edu.tw/Commercial Times (20 Dec 2024): NTUST wins the 2024 National Sustainable Development Awardhttps://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20241220700579-431204Green-Collar Talent and Professional TrainingThe School of Continuing Education brings together NTUST experts in environmental engineering, green energy and management with industry practitioners. It runs practical courses on sustainability management and net-zero emissions that build skills in carbon inventory, ESG and climate change adaptation. One example is the third ESG Sustainability Management Practice Programme, a 300-hour pre-employment course running from 14 October to 22 December 2026. It is designed to prepare "green-collar" talent for employment. The School also runs a Carbon Inventory Practice Programme and an AI-Enabled Net-Zero Sustainability Practice Programme, which help employed and job-seeking learners move into net-zero transition careers.Related web pagesSchool of Continuing Education: ESG Sustainability Management Practice Programme (Cohort 3)https://sce.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1074-150702.php?Lang=zh-tw Green-Collar Talent and Professional TrainingThe School of Continuing Education brings together NTUST experts in environmental engineering, green energy and management with industry practitioners. It runs practical courses on sustainability management and net-zero emissions that build skills in carbon inventory, ESG and climate change adaptation. One example is the third ESG Sustainability Management Practice Programme, a 300-hour pre-employment course running from 14 October to 22 December 2026. It is designed to prepare "green-collar" talent for employment. The School also runs a Carbon Inventory Practice Programme and an AI-Enabled Net-Zero Sustainability Practice Programme, which help employed and job-seeking learners move into net-zero transition careers.Related web pagesSchool of Continuing Education: ESG Sustainability Management Practice Programme (Cohort 3)https://sce.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1074-150702.php?Lang=zh-tw 2. Campus Climate Lectures and Cross-Sector ForumsNTUST works with government agencies, including the Ministry of Environment, to host lectures in the "Youth Participation in Climate Action for Universities" series. On 28 May 2026 the forum's theme was "Data, Technology and Civic Action: Co-Creating Sustainable Cities Across Disciplines". Speakers came from the Ministry of Environment's Climate Change Administration (Net-Zero Promotion Division), a weather risk management company, the Taiwan Green Energy Public Welfare Development Association and the Executive Yuan's Youth Advisory Committee. They joined NTUST faculty and about 130 students and members of the public to share practical experience in climate governance and sustainability transition from policy, industry, civic advocacy and youth perspectives.The panel discussion covered open data and its use, how young people can move from concern to action, and green jobs. Questions were collected live through Slido, and a Kahoot! quiz tested participants' climate knowledge. The Central News Agency (CNA) press release platform also covered the event.Related web pagesNTUST News (28 May 2026): NTUST and the Ministry of Environment promote climate action - government, industry and academia explore data and technology for sustainable citieshttps://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-148240,r167.php?Lang=zh-twCNA press release platform (28 May 2026): external media coverage of the same eventhttps://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/4346663.University Social Responsibility (USR) and Sustainability PlatformThe NTUST Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research coordinates the university's sustainability report, greenhouse gas inventory and annual SDG report, and leads sustainability work on campus. NTUST began a campus-wide greenhouse gas inventory in 2023, checked by an internal verification team qualified under ISO 14064-1. The university has set targets of 50% carbon neutrality by 2030 and 100% by 2049. The same year, the NTUST Infinity Festival took the low-carbon campus as its theme. It included seven sustainability workshops, a photo competition, a sustainability book exhibition and a campus sustainability map, and promoted green consumption and green office practices.Through interdisciplinary social practice courses and projects, students apply decarbonisation, climate adaptation and community co-creation to local revitalisation, elderly care and international volunteering. In September 2026 NTUST hosted the Ministry of Education's USR capacity-building event "New Horizons for Sustainability: Innovation, Diffusion and International Cooperation". NTUST shared its experience building community resilience in the Nan-Gongguan settlement, as well as its Engineers in Action programme. That programme works over the long term with rural communities in Indonesia and Vietnam to improve sanitation and water use.For campus decarbonisation, the Office of Environmental Protection and Safety partnered with YouBike in 2026 to run an NTUST group in the YouBike "Carbon Savings Passbook" app. The group encourages faculty, staff and students to commute by public bike and track the carbon they save, which averages about 0.178 kg CO2e per ride. Participants who ride on at least 11 days and save at least 4 kg CO2e in a month meet the monthly target. When the group saves 1,000 kg in a quarter, members receive riding vouchers.Related web pagesOffice of Environmental Protection and Safety: Join the NTUST group in the YouBike Carbon Savings Passbookhttps://she.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1068-151160,r1497.php?Lang=zh-twNTUST News (Nov 2023): NTUST Infinity Festival - sustainable development for a low-carbon campushttps://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-119005,r167.php?Lang=zh-twNTUST Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reporthttps://po-r.ntust.edu.tw/var/file/59/1059/img/388016467.pdfCNA press release platform (21 Sep 2026): NTUST brings together USR practice from Taiwan, Japan, the US and Indonesiahttps://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/4447504. Environmental Education Activities and PhotosThe Office of Environmental Protection and Safety holds environmental education activities every year on energy transition, carbon issues, ESG, plastic reduction and climate action, and publishes photo albums of each event online. Climate-related activities include the 2025 Sustainability Week "Pedal Power Station" booth, where a pedal-powered YouBike generator lit a light bulb so participants could see how green electricity is made. The 2024 "Pedal for Green Power" experience introduced renewable energy and the net-zero transition. The 2024 lecture "Why Is ESG So Hot?" explained ESG and sustainability disclosure trends and how climate risk and carbon management affect industries and careers.The 2023 lecture "Carbon Issues Facing Businesses" looked at carbon inventory, carbon pricing and decarbonisation pathways for companies moving toward net zero. In 2023 the Office screened the climate documentary Tomorrow (Demain), which presents solutions to the climate crisis in farming, energy, the economy and education around the world. In 2022 the campus joined WWF's Earth Hour, switching off lights and promoting energy saving and carbon reduction.Related web pagesOffice of Environmental Protection and Safety: Environmental education activities and photoshttps://she.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1068-83822.php?Lang=zh-tw2025 Sustainability Week - Pedal Power Station (album)https://photos.app.goo.gl/XjvfAMKorDaSZHJw52024 Pedal for Green Power Sustainable Energy Experience (album)https://photos.app.goo.gl/LPqAWAA89qirCbgE72024 Lecture: Why Is ESG So Hot? (album)https://photos.app.goo.gl/uAvrWmb2U6hsTq1962023 Lecture: Carbon Issues Facing Businesses (album)https://photos.app.goo.gl/xws1yxnZBS7ty38H82023 Film Screening: Tomorrow (Demain) (album)https://photos.app.goo.gl/g7TyoLUjZq2RFtRc82022 Earth Hour (album)https://photos.app.goo.gl/v24Hk5f2xEagrYz16 Activity photosFigure 1 2025 Sustainability Week - Pedal Power Station activity photos (Source: NTUST Office of Environmental Protection and Safety)Figure 2 2024 Pedal for Green Power Experience activity photos (Source: NTUST Office of Environmental Protection and Safety) Figure 3 2023 Lecture: Carbon Issues Facing Businesses activity photos (Source: NTUST Office of Environmental Protection and Safety)

Does the university as a body promote sustainable commuting? Yes.National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) promotes walking, cycling, public transport and zero-emission vehicles in three ways: a university-wide YouBike cycling incentive campaign in 2026, low-carbon transport facilities on and around campus, and an annual inventory of how staff commute and the emissions it causes. 1. Campaign: YouBike Carbon Reduction Passbook, NTUST group (2026)NTUST's Office of Environment and Safety has partnered with YouBike, Taipei's public bike-sharing system, to run the "YouBike Carbon Reduction Passbook" campaign for all students, faculty and staff. Participants record the carbon they save by riding YouBike in daily commuting and travel, and earn rewards as individuals and as a campus group.Campaign period: 1 January to 31 December 2026.How to join: take out public-bike accident insurance, download and log in to the Carbon Reduction Passbook app, and join the NTUST group.Qualifying riders: ride YouBike on at least 11 days a month and save at least 4 kg CO₂e a month.Individual rewards: a monthly draw of 2,000 winners across all YouBike service areas, and a quarterly bonus draw (with a smartphone as the top prize) for riders who qualify in all three months of a quarter.Group reward: when the NTUST group saves 1,000 kg CO₂e in a quarter, members receive extra free-ride vouchers, so every rider's trips count toward a shared campus goal.Impact: according to certified data cited by the campaign, each YouBike trip saves about 0.178 kg CO₂e on average.Campaign announcement: https://she.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1068-151160,r1497.php?Lang=zh-tw2. Low-carbon transport facilitiesNTUST is on Keelung Road in Taipei, with a bus stop at the main gate and Gongguan MRT station about ten minutes away on foot. The university has worked with the Taipei City Government and private partners to add the following facilities.YouBike 2.0 public bikes: NTUST joined the Taipei Department of Transportation's YouBike 2.0 programme and secured an expanded service area. There are now 8 rental stations around campus, and docks have grown from 40 to 347.EV charging: 4 charging stations on campus with 12 charging points.Electric-scooter battery swapping: a Gogoro GoStation battery-swap station on campus, in service since July 2019 at NTUST's invitation.Bus shelters: NTUST provides setback land along the road free of charge, under the National Property Act, to the Taipei City Public Transportation Office, which has built 3 bus shelters there. Facilities announcement (Office of General Affairs): https://www.general.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1054-130103,r9.php?Lang=zh-tw 3. Measuring how staff commuteNTUST surveys how its faculty and staff travel to campus and reports the resulting emissions as GHG Protocol Scope 3, Category 7 (employee commuting). In 2025, staff commuted 3.84 million passenger-km and produced 312.9 t CO₂e. Public transport and zero-emission vehicles already cover 54.5% of commuting distance. Petrol and hybrid cars and petrol scooters cover the remaining 45.5% but produce 60% of emissions, which is why the campaigns and facilities above focus on moving these trips to cycling, transit and electric vehicles.EvidenceYouBike Carbon Reduction Passbook campaign, Office of Environment and Safety: https://she.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1068-151160,r1497.php?Lang=zh-twBuilding a green campus transport environment, Office of General Affairs: https://www.general.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1054-130103,r9.php?Lang=zh-tw2025 (ROC 114) Scope 3 staff commuting emissions inventory, NTUST.

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) measures how its faculty and staff travel to campus each year and provides facilities that make public transport, cycling and zero-emission vehicles easy to use. This document presents the 2025 staff commuting inventory and the campus green transport measures.Inventory year: 2025 (ROC year 114) | Scope: faculty and staff commuting, GHG Scope 3 | Campus: No. 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei1. How staff commute: 2025 inventoryMore than half of all staff commuting distance already runs on Taipei's public transport network, mainly the MRT and city buses. Public transport and zero-emission vehicles together account for 54.5% of commuting distance, while petrol and hybrid cars and petrol scooters account for 45.5%.Emissions are concentrated in private vehicles. Petrol and hybrid cars cover 36% of commuting distance but produce 49% of commuting emissions. All private cars and scooters together produce 190.5 t CO₂e (60.9%), and public transport produces 122.3 t CO₂e (39.1%). Per passenger-kilometre, the Taipei MRT emits about a third less than a petrol car, and walking or cycling emits nothing.Table 1. Staff commuting distance and emissions by mode, 20252. Campus measures for low-carbon commutingNTUST is located on Keelung Road in Taipei, with a bus stop at the main gate and Gongguan MRT station about ten minutes away on foot. Building on this location, the university has worked with the Taipei City Government and private partners on the following facilities.YouBike 2.0 public bikes: NTUST took part in the Taipei Department of Transportation's YouBike 2.0 programme and secured an expanded service area around campus. There are now 8 rental stations, and docks have grown from 40 to 347 for students and staff.EV charging: four electric-vehicle charging stations on campus provide a total of 12 charging points.Electric-scooter battery swapping: NTUST invited Gogoro to open a GoStation battery-swap station on campus, in service since July 2019, to support zero-emission scooter commuting.Bus shelters on university land: under the National Property Act, NTUST provides setback land along the road free of charge to the Taipei City Public Transportation Office, which has built 3 bus shelters there.Figure 1. NTUST green transport network: YouBike 2.0 stations, bus stops, MRT access, EV charging stations and the battery-swap station around campus3. How the inventory was calculatedEach faculty and staff member reported the Google Maps distance from home to campus. Round-trip distance (×2) was summed over the working year.Each person was counted under their main mode of transport.Emissions = annual commuting distance × mode emission factor (kg CO₂e per passenger-km), reported as GHG Protocol Scope 3, Category 7 (employee commuting).Walking and cycling are counted as zero-emission. Their distance was not recorded in the 2025 survey.Table 2. Emission factors and sourcesSourcesNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Office of General Affairs.2025 (ROC 114) Scope 3 staff commuting emissions inventory."Building a green campus transport environment", Office of General Affairs announcement: https://www.general.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1054-130103,r9.php?Lang=zh-tw

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST, Taiwan Tech) records, preserves and revitalises cultural heritage through its University Social Responsibility (USR) projects, the Center for General Education's South Side College, the Indigenous Students Resource Centre and student practice. Work covers three areas: local and regional heritage, such as the historic South Side (Chengnan) settlements around campus and Yuanli's rush-weaving craft; national heritage, including the cultures of Taiwan's Indigenous peoples and the Hakka; and the heritage of displaced communities, notably Huanmin New Village at Toad Mountain, a former military dependents' village settled by soldiers and families who came to Taiwan after 1949. Toad Mountain was designated a Taipei cultural landscape in 2016. Students and faculty document these places and traditions through fieldwork, bilingual guiding, courses, exhibitions and design, so that the public can learn and carry them on. Taiwan Tech's "Inabayan: Stories and Roots" performance celebrates Nanwang Culture through food and storytelling (21 Sep. 2026) For the 8th annual showcase of the Indigenous Youth Society, Indigenous students from different disciplines and ethnic groups spent more than six months visiting the Nanwang Puyuma community in Taitung to learn from its members. Held from 14 to 24 September 2026, the showcase featured a dining-table exhibition where community members and students shared food and life stories, cultural artefacts, a flower-garland workshop, the lecture "Puyuma, My Homeland: Exploring Memories Across Time and Space" by the former director of the National Museum of Prehistory, and a traditional Puyuma music and dance performance. It covered the Puyuma youth gathering house (palakuwan) and the ties between the community and the city. Inabayan means "hello" in the Nanwang variety of Puyuma.News linksEnglish: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-152615,r1182.php?Lang=enTaiwan Tech partners with Huanmin New Village to bring general education into the community (31 Aug. 2026)The Center for General Education's South Side College signed a memorandum of understanding with the Taipei Culture Foundation's Huanmin New Village at Toad Mountain to support community-based learning, revitalise local spaces and exchange culture. Huanmin New Village brings together military-village heritage, settlement life, hillside ecology and contemporary art. Under the agreement, Taiwan Tech holds courses, workshops and exhibitions in the village. Existing courses already use the site: South Side Short Trips introduces how the settlements developed, Art and Public Environment has students propose art projects for Toad Mountain, Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development (TCG136301, taught in English) studies reuse of Taiwan Tech's Japanese-era dormitories, and Painting South Side Culture records cultural sites in watercolour. The partners will link the village with Treasure Hill Artist Village, Gongguan Shuiyuan Market and Taipei Hakka Culture Park as a "South Side Learning Network".News linksEnglish: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-151734,r1182.php?Lang=en中文（臺科大攜手蟾蜍山煥民新村　通識教育走進城南文化廊帶）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-151078,r167.php?Lang=zh-twTaiwan Tech turns the south side into a living classroom to build cross-disciplinary skills (13 Aug. 2026)From 7 to 10 July 2026, the Center for General Education ran a four-day immersive summer school for 13 high-school students, supported by 15 Taiwan Tech undergraduate peer-learning partners and nearly all of the Center's full-time faculty. Participants did fieldwork, environmental observation and hands-on work in three South Side settlements: Treasure Hill Artist Village, Fanglan Mountain and Huanmin New Village, an ageing military dependents' village. They explored how art coexists with residential life, ethnic cultures and military-village heritage, and worked in teams on proposals for cultural preservation, local revitalisation and cultural sustainability.News linksEnglish: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-151741,r1182.php?Lang=en中文（2026城人式：台科識視營知識與視野夏校）: https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/441512Taiwan Tech students create a new model for Yuanli's Rush Grass Heritage (6 Aug. 2026)Hsien-Tse Lai, a master's student in the Department of Design, returned to his hometown of Yuanli, Miaoli, and joined the Taiwan Rush Grass Association. Yuanli's rush weaving was once exported worldwide as hats and mats, but the craft declined as industry moved away and skilled weavers aged. Lai turned knowledge once passed on orally through apprenticeship into illustrated teaching materials and kits that people can use at home, backed by short intensive courses and trained seed teachers. He also helps restore rush fields, introduces visitors to the full cycle from planting and harvesting to weaving, and created rush-themed banquets and ceramic tableware. The average age of participants has fallen from the seventies to the forties. The project won a GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2025 BEST100 (Regional Planning, 100 chosen from 5,225 entries) and a GOOD FOCUS AWARD [New Business Design].News linksEnglish: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-151749,r1182.php?Lang=en中文（從家鄉苑裡出發　臺科大學生打造藺草傳承新模式）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-150464,r167.php?Lang=zh-twIndigenous village journey: Amis shaman ritual culture (29 Oct. 2025)The Indigenous Students Resource Centre invited Mahengheng Akang, a ritual priest of the Lidaw Amis community, to share first-hand the beliefs and rituals of the Amis shamans (Sikawasay), who lead prayers for blessing, healing and protection and act as a bridge between the community and ancestral spirits.News links中文（部落漫遊x阿美族巫師祭儀文化）: https://indigenous-r.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1108-143142.php?Lang=zh-twTaiwan Tech empowers Nepal's mountain communities with local revitalisation and disaster education (23 Sep. 2025)In the fourth year of its work in Nepal, the USR team continued restoring a century-old traditional house in Upper Pisang, Annapurna region, as the "Story Café", a cultural hub that shares local history and culture with travellers. The retaining wall in front of the house was completed, and the team installed new signposts and a guide map. Earlier, students learned traditional building materials, methods and customs from village elders and surveyed the house to prepare drawings and repair designs.News linksEnglish: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/16-1000-141506.php?Lang=enTaiwan Tech's "Hata: still on the road" brings innovation to Atayal indigenous villages (Sep. 2025)The Indigenous Students Resource Centre and the Indigenous Youth Society based their 2025 annual showcase on students' learning in Jinyue village, an Atayal community in Nan'ao, Yilan. Students turned their fieldwork on Atayal history and culture into four works, Breath, Shuttle, Intersection and Pulse, including traditional rattan weaving, a material used in daily village life. Hata means "to walk, to set out" in Atayal.News linksEnglish: https://www.secretariat.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1063-140986.php?Lang=en中文（臺科大「hata還在路上」走進泰雅族部落）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-140656,r167.php?Lang=zh-twBilingual heritage guide training at Toad Mountain settlement (3 Sep. 2025)The Department of Civil and Construction Engineering trained 20 Taiwan Tech students as bilingual (Chinese/English) guides at Huanmin New Village. Training covered guiding skills, a guide-robot app and a tour of the Toad Mountain settlement, so that students can tell the stories of the campus's neighbourhood to local and international visitors as part of the university's USR work.News links中文（114年臺科大雙語(中、英)導覽員培訓課程--蟾蜍山聚落）: https://www.ct.ntust.edu.tw/ct/articles/view/15223Taiwan Tech Immersive Summer School integrates tech, humanities, and public issues to empower communities (5 Aug. 2025)The South Side College's Urban STREAM Immersive Summer School (1–5 July 2025) took high-school students on fieldwork to South Side settlements including Treasure Hill Artist Village and Huanmin New Village at Toad Mountain. Participants learned about military-village history and the old settlements of Taipei and proposed projects on local issues.News linksEnglish: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-140046,r1182.php?Lang=en中文（當科技遇上人文，臺科大城南學院STREAM沉浸式夏校帶領學子進行「城人式」）: https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/408817Promoting Hakka Culture: Taiwan Tech General Education demonstrates the art of opera (Jun. 2025)With funding from the Hakka Affairs Council, the Center for General Education offers Exploring the Aesthetics of Hakka Opera Costume and Makeup (2 credits). Students study Hakka history and the development of Hakka opera, use Hakka floral fabric in costume design, and learn make-up, props and stage gestures. At the end-of-term showcase they performed the classic Hakka opera Tiao Jiu in the Hakka language, alongside two more plays, one mixing Hakka, Taiwanese and English. A Hakka opera performer and researcher assessed the performances.News linksEnglish: https://www.secretariat.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1063-138171.php?Lang=en中文（演繹精彩客家文化　臺科大通識教育教學成果秀戲曲魅力）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-137743,r167.php?Lang=zh-twRevitalising the space beside Historic Building No. 92 at Toad Mountain settlement (since 10 Feb. 2025)Since 10 February 2025, Taiwan Tech's Center for General Education has been the custodian of the open space and storeroom beside Historic Building No. 92 in the Toad Mountain settlement. The university revitalised this unused space as a base for real-time monitoring of the historic building, a venue for residents to meet and train in disaster evacuation, and a classroom for disaster-preparedness training.The revitalised space beside Historic Building No. 92 is used as a classroom for disaster-preparedness training .Taiwan Tech staff and community members inspect the space at Toad Mountain settlement.