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NTUST's Events for Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation of the Oceans

Guided by SDG 14 (Life Below Water), NTUST uses cross-disciplinary research, design exhibitions, social practice talks and its campus Sustainability Week to help students, staff and neighbours understand and care for the ocean. This report draws on 8 news stories and university notices from 2020 to 2026, grouped into three themes: Research and technology exhibitions: Design students 3D-printed Ecotrapod, an eco-friendly wave-dissipating block made from waste oyster shells and recycled slurry, which won Best Design of the Year and the Circular Design Special Award at the Golden Pin Young Talent awards. Chemical engineers, with National Taiwan University, developed an eel-inspired membrane that improves ocean salinity-gradient (blue) energy. Talks and social practice: The Center for General Education invited RE-THINK to share its beach clean-up and marine debris campaigns, and Distinguished Professor Chiang Kuo-ping of National Taiwan Ocean University to explain how research on Matsu's blue tears supports local communities and ocean conservation. Campus promotion and public education: Sustainability Week ran the workshop Drifting Plastic Dreams: From Marine Debris to a Sustainable New Life. The Library offers public-performance environmental films such as Minamata. Students from NTUST, NTU and NTNU hold a joint beach clean-up that is open to the public.The table below summarises NTUST's events under each theme and the supporting evidence:1. Research and Technology Exhibitions1.1 Ecotrapod: marine habitat blocks made from oyster shellsEcotrapod, the graduation project of Design students Chiang Chia-ying and Lin Shao-yu, won two prizes at the 2024 Golden Pin Young Talent awards: Best Design of the Year in the industry-academia category and the Circular Design Special Award (CNA PR Newswire, 17 June 2024). Developed with C-Cube, Lotos and Everplast, the block uses C-Slurry, a recycled slurry, and waste oyster shells to replace or reduce cement.Its porous, spiral bionic form lets algae attach and gives fish, shrimp and shellfish a place to live, and lets visitors watch marine life in the intertidal zone. The team says the material has about 50% less carbon footprint than cement blocks, 3D printing saves more than 40% of material, and the blocks can be crushed and reused at end of life. Shown through a national design award, the work demonstrates to designers and the public a way to protect coasts while creating marine habitat.1.2 Eel-inspired membrane for ocean clean energyProfessor Yeh Li-Hsien of Chemical Engineering and a National Taiwan University team, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology's Shackleton Project, developed a membrane inspired by electric eel cells. It turns the energy released when seawater and fresh water mix into electricity, setting records for osmotic power density and anion selectivity. The work was published in Science Advances and may also help desalination (April 2021). The research develops blue energy that does not deplete ocean resources and was widely reported in the media.📎 News evidence for this section CNA PR Newswire (2024/06/17) Using recycled materials and oyster shells, NTUST students' eco-friendly wave-dissipating blocks win two Golden Pin Young Talent awards: https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/374039 NTUST News (2024/06/17) NTUST students' oyster-shell wave-dissipating blocks win two Golden Pin awards (media coverage): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-126189,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw NTUST News (2021/04/22) NTUST and NTU develop an eel-inspired membrane that greatly improves ocean clean-energy efficiency, published in a top journal: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/16-1000-90043.php?Lang=zh-tw2. Talks and Social Practice2.1 Talk on marine debris and beach clean-upsOn 4 December 2020, the Center for General Education held a social practice talk by Liu Hsin-wei, an NTUST polymer engineering graduate and project manager at RE-THINK. She noted that nowhere in Taiwan is more than about 50 km from the sea. Since 2013, RE-THINK has run island-wide beach clean-ups with more than 30,000 volunteers, and turned the rubbish collected into a 'menu' to make people think about their part in ocean pollution. The talk proposed five daily actions: use fewer single-use utensils, avoid bottled water, recycle properly, think before buying and join beach clean-ups.2.2 Blue tears research and university social responsibilityOn 24 March 2022, with support from the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Sprout Project, the Center for General Education invited Distinguished Professor Chiang Kuo-ping of National Taiwan Ocean University to give the talk Decoding the Mermaid's Tears. He explained that Matsu's blue tears come from bioluminescent dinoflagellates, and that his team cultivates them so visitors can see the glow all year. This supports Matsu's tourism and local businesses and shows how ocean science can serve communities and the sustainable use of marine resources.📎 News evidence for this section NTUST Center for General Education (2020/12/04) Talk: A rubbish lesson every islander needs – solving social problems through enterprise (speaker: Liu Hsin-wei, RE-THINK): https://cla.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1076-84824,r1747.php?Lang=zh-tw NTUST Center for General Education (2022/03/24) Talk: Decoding the mermaid's tears – blue tears research and university social responsibility (speaker: Distinguished Professor Chiang Kuo-ping, NTOU): https://cla.ntust.edu.tw/p/405-1076-97935,c9406.php?Lang=zh-tw3. Campus Promotion and Public Education3.1 Sustainability Week: from marine debris to new lifeThe Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research holds NTUST Sustainability Week every year. The 2025 week (17–21 November) was co-organised with the Environmental Protection and Safety Office and USR project teams. On 19 November, teacher Lin Chia-wei led the workshop Drifting Plastic Dreams: From Marine Debris to a Sustainable New Life at the College of Management E-house, where students and staff learned about ocean plastic waste and turned marine debris into upcycled works. During the same week, NTUST ran sustainable living and disaster prevention classes at nearby Fanghe Experimental High School and Gongguan Elementary School.3.2 Environmental films and a joint beach clean-upThe Library provides public-performance films for screenings and teaching on campus. Its list includes Minamata, about mercury pollution in Japan's Minamata Bay, and other environmental films that help students and staff understand how water pollution harms marine life and human health.On 14 November 2026, NTUST students will join students from National Taiwan University and National Taiwan Normal University in the beach clean-up Three Universities, One Coast, a joint event initiated by the NTNU Student Association and announced on 21 October 2026. The event is tagged SDG 11 and SDG 14 and is open to friends and family from outside the universities, taking direct action to reduce coastal litter.📎 News evidence for this section NTUST Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research (2025/11/12) NTUST Sustainability Week 2025 (including the workshop Drifting Plastic Dreams: From Marine Debris to a Sustainable New Life): https://po.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1059-141845,r763.php?Lang=zh-tw NTUST Library (2021/12 onwards) NTUST Library public-performance film list (includes Minamata and other environmental films): https://libself.lib.ntust.edu.tw/public-movie/zh NTNU Sustainability News (2026/10/21) Three Universities, One Coast: NTU, NTUST and NTNU students hold a joint beach clean-up on 14 November: https://www.sdgs.ntnu.edu.tw/%E3%80%90%E4%B8%89%E6%A0%A1%E8%BF%8E%E9%A2%A8-%E9%87%8E%E6%B5%B7%E5%90%8C%E8%A1%8C%E3%80%91%E5%B8%AB%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F%E6%9C%83%E9%82%80%E8%AB%8B11-14%E4%B8%80%E8%B5%B7%E6%B7%A8%E7%81%98/Summary of News CoverageThis indicator is supported by 8 news stories and university notices, listed by date:Summary: NTUST promotes ocean conservation and sustainable use through cross-disciplinary research, design exhibitions, social practice talks and its campus Sustainability Week. The Design Department's oyster-shell habitat blocks won national design awards, and the Chemical Engineering Department's eel-inspired membrane advances ocean clean energy. The Center for General Education brings marine debris campaigners and ocean scientists to campus. Sustainability Week's marine debris workshop, the Library's environmental films and the three-university beach clean-up help students, staff and the community move from learning about the ocean to protecting it.

NTUST's Climate Action Plan

NTUST's climate action plan is part of its mid- to long-term development plan and is led by the Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research. Its targets are 50% carbon neutrality by 2030 and 100% by 2049. This report draws on 15 news stories and public documents from 2022 to 2026, grouped into four themes:The plan and its carbon-neutral targets: Since 2023, NTUST has run greenhouse gas inventories under ISO 14064-1, verified by DNV. It issued a Net-Zero Declaration in 2025, and in 2026 opened Taiwan's first urban campus microgrid on its Huaxia campus.Sharing and planning with government: NTUST submitted its climate-friendly campus plan to the Ministry of Education, co-hosted youth climate action events with the Ministry of Environment, and has supported Taipei City's Disaster Prevention and Protection Programme since 2010. Its microgrid backs up a New Taipei City emergency shelter.Sharing with local communities: The university's USR team built a Resilient Community Disaster Prevention Center with Daxue Village and ran resilience workshops in Xuefu Village. Using the Chengnan area as a classroom, it shares green energy and local sustainability with high school students and residents.Youth and skills for climate action: NTUST brings carbon inventory and verification into the classroom, co-ran greenhouse gas verifier training for 245 people with National Dong Hwa University, and its student teams win net-zero competitions year after year.The table below summarises what NTUST does under each theme and the supporting evidence:1. The Climate Action Plan and Carbon-neutral Targets1.1 Clear targets and a dedicated unitNTUST, National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University and other universities formed the Taiwan Sustainability Governance University Alliance. President Yen Chia-yu announced NTUST's low-carbon targets: 50% carbon neutrality by 2030 and 100% by 2049, now part of the university's mid- to long-term plan. The Commercial Times reported in December 2024 that NTUST won the 2024 National Sustainable Development Award (education category). The university has drawn up a decarbonisation roadmap and avoided about 218,913 kg of CO2 emissions in 2023.NTUST's revised plan for the Ministry of Education's 2024 Smart Climate-friendly Campus Pilot Programme (18 March 2024) states that the university began greenhouse gas inventories in 2023, using 2022 as the base year. The inventory follows ISO 14064-1:2018 and is verified by DNV. The Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research manages progress, writes the report, collects data from all units and runs internal verification. Nearly 90% of emissions come from electricity (Category 2) and from purchased goods and waste treatment (Category 4), which guides equipment replacement and energy saving. The plan also links smart electricity meters, smart water meters, air quality sensors and the energy management system (EMS) into a public sustainability information site. Ministry reviewers endorsed the 2049 target for 100% carbon neutrality.1.2 The Net-Zero Declaration and campus microgridOn 15 April 2025, at a forum and handover ceremony for a donated carbon inventory system, the President issued NTUST's Net-Zero Declaration, committing the university to net-zero emissions by 2049 through technology, teaching, research and industry partnerships. Alumni-founded Shuoda Systems donated the system, and the Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research provided inventory expertise and advice.In September 2026, NTUST presented its Huaxia campus microgrid. It was the first university in northern Taiwan selected for Taipower's university energy saving and power resilience programme. The system includes 229.68 kWp of solar panels, 2 MWh of battery storage, two 100 kW DC fast chargers, a 400 kW backup generator and an EMS. All solar power is used on campus, saving an estimated NT$540,000 a year in electricity costs.Table 2. NTUST's carbon-neutral pathway and milestones:News evidence for this sectionMinistry of Education (NTUST plan) (2024/03/18) NTUST revised plan for the Ministry of Education's 2024 Smart Climate-friendly Campus Pilot Programme: https://ws-proj.moe.edu.tw/001/Upload/568/relfile/13271/17428/784018ad-7cc4-4049-95c8-f309581b402f.pdfCommercial Times (2024/12/20) Building sustainability and social responsibility into its DNA, NTUST wins the 2024 National Sustainable Development Award: https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20241220700579-431204NTUST News (2025/04/17) NTUST issues its Net-Zero Declaration at a forum and launches its sustainability transition: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-135620,r167.php?Lang=zh-twCNA PR Newswire (2026/09/18) NTUST builds Taiwan's first urban campus microgrid, saving energy day to day and supplying power in disasters: https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/444620Commercial Times (2026/09/18) NTUST builds Taiwan's first urban campus microgrid: https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260918701210-4312042. Climate Planning and Disaster Prevention with Local Government2.1 Sharing plans with national government and co-hosting youth climate actionThrough the Ministry of Education's Smart Climate-friendly Campus programme, NTUST submitted its inventory system, reduction targets, EMS and smart meter plans for government review (see 1.1), aligning with national net-zero green campus policy.In May 2026, NTUST and the Ministry of Environment co-hosted a talk in the Youth Climate Action Series for universities, titled Data, Technology and Civic Action: Co-creating Sustainable Cities. Nearly 130 students and members of the public attended. An analyst from the Climate Change Administration's Net-Zero Promotion Division spoke on transparent and accountable sustainability pathways from a government perspective. Speakers from Weather Risk Management, the Taiwan Green Energy Public Welfare Development Association and the Executive Yuan's Youth Advisory Committee discussed data integration, data visualisation and youth advocacy. The Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research said sustainability should be part of everyday learning and life.2.2 Disaster prevention work with Taipei CityCommonWealth Magazine reported in October 2022 that NTUST has supported Taipei City's Disaster Prevention and Protection Programme since 2010. Professor Chien-Kuo Chiu explained that national and city governments use the programme to model the Shanchiao Fault every year, updating the scale of rupture, affected areas and damage estimates, and Taipei uses the results to plan disaster prevention parks and shelters. Because the city can reach only about 12 of its more than 400 villages a year, NTUST launched its Community Renewal and Resilience USR project in 2020 to help neighbourhoods in Da'an, Wenshan and Zhongzheng districts. It also signed a disaster prevention memorandum with the Da'an District Office.For energy resilience, the Juyu Building on the Huaxia campus is one of New Taipei City's emergency shelters. If grid power fails, the microgrid switches to island mode and can run the whole campus for 4 hours, or 8 hours with large air-conditioning units shed, putting shelter lighting and communications first. Emergency sockets at the guardhouse let neighbours charge their phones during outages (see evidence in 1.2).📎 News evidence for this sectionNTUST News (2026/05/28) NTUST and the Ministry of Environment promote climate action as government, industry and academia explore data and technology for sustainable cities: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-148240,r167.php?Lang=zh-twCommonWealth Magazine (2022/10/19) Thriving together with the neighbourhood: NTUST's Chengnan Unlimited Project shows how: https://www.cw.com.tw/article/51231893. Sharing and Practice with Local Communities3.1 Resilient communities: bringing disaster expertise to residentsOn the slopes of Toad Mountain, the USR team installed rainfall and tilt sensors, built an app that alerts village chiefs during heavy rain, and designed a LINE chatbot that shows the nearest shelter, fire hydrant and AED. The team also ran workshops in Xuefu Village on pre-disaster recovery planning and community resilience (CommonWealth Magazine, 2022).In November 2025, staff and students from the Departments of Civil and Construction Engineering and Architecture worked with Daxue Village in Da'an District to renovate an empty old building on Roosevelt Road, Section 3, into a Resilient Community Disaster Prevention Center with a disaster education room and a supplies room. Supplies are grouped for warning, evacuation and rescue, with stock and expiry tracking, and an evacuation route map for Daxue Village is mounted on the outside wall. Residents use the center to learn about disaster prevention and train.After extreme weather struck Hualien, on 4 October 2025 the NTUST Student Association and EDBA/EMBA Alumni Association brought 60 students and 34 alumni to Guangfu Township to help clear mud, with funds and supplies from the Alumni Association and campus vendors.3.2 Chengnan as a classroom: sharing sustainability with neighboursIn July 2026, the Center for General Education ran a summer school that took 13 high school students from across Taiwan and 15 NTUST undergraduates to Treasure Hill, Fanglan Mountain and Toad Mountain. Courses included green energy and design thinking, using technology to address local issues. In August 2026, the Chengnan College signed a memorandum with the Taipei Culture Foundation to bring teaching and building reuse to Huanmin New Village at Toad Mountain. Its course on cultural heritage and sustainable development looks at reusing the Japanese-era dormitories to benefit the community.📎 News evidence for this sectionCommonWealth Magazine (2022/10/19) Thriving together with the neighbourhood: NTUST's Chengnan Unlimited Project shows how: https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5123189NTUST News (2025/11/13) NTUST USR team and Daxue Village, Da'an District, turn an old building into a Resilient Community Disaster Prevention Center: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-142185,r167.php?Lang=zh-twNTUST News (2025/10/14) Nearly 100 NTUST students and EMBA alumni help clear mud in Hualien after the disaster: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-141169,r167.php?Lang=zh-twNTUST News (2026/08/13) Using Chengnan as a classroom, NTUST builds young people's cross-disciplinary skills: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-150646,r167.php?Lang=zh-twNTUST News (2026/08/31) NTUST partners with Huanmin New Village at Toad Mountain, bringing general education into the Chengnan cultural corridor: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-151078,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw4. Youth and Skills: Building Capacity for Climate Action4.1 Training carbon inventory and verification talentIn the Graduate Institute of Energy and Sustainability Technology's Sustainable Energy Strategy and Policy course, an industry speaker explained greenhouse gas inventory and third-party verification in practice. The course also coached students for the Ministry of Economic Affairs' iPAS Net-Zero Carbon Planning Manager certificate: about 75% of the class passed, against an official pass rate of 33.68% for the first 2025 entry-level exam (PeoPo, December 2025).In July 2026, NTUST and National Dong Hwa University's Carbon Neutrality Research Center ran a 40-hour ISO 14064-1:2018 lead verifier (auditor) course and an 8-hour iPAS exam review. 245 people took part: 79 from industry, 18 from government and public bodies, and 148 from schools and universities. 190 completed at least 32 hours. The course shared carbon management skills with government, business and schools in eastern Taiwan and nationwide.4.2 Net-zero technology competitionsAt the 2025 Net Zero Emissions Technology International Competition, organised by National Taiwan University and the TECO Technology Foundation with APRU, five NTUST teams reached the final and three won awards worth NT$1.12 million in total. In the 2026 competition, teams from Chemical Engineering and Applied Science won second place in the energy and sustainability categories for work on all-solid-state batteries, CO2 capture and battery recycling.📎 News evidence for this sectionPeoPo Citizen News (2025/12/19) Net zero is more than a slogan: NTUST brings carbon inventory and verification thinking into the classroom: https://www.peopo.org/news/832201CNA PR Newswire (2026/07/21) National Dong Hwa University and NTUST train net-zero talent through auditor training and iPAS exam review: https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/439446NTUST News (2025/08/28) Five teams reach the final and three win awards: NTUST shines at the 2025 Net Zero Competition: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-139612,r167.php?Lang=zh-twCommercial Times (2026/10/15) NTUST's net-zero technologies win awards, showing strength in energy storage: https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20261015700216-439901Summary of News CoverageThis indicator is supported by 15 news stories and public documents, listed by date:Summary: NTUST's climate action plan aims for 50% carbon neutrality by 2030 and 100% by 2049. It is led by the Center for Sustainable Development and Institutional Research and delivered through ISO 14064-1 inventories verified by DNV, a Net-Zero Declaration and a campus microgrid. NTUST shares the plan and its results with the Ministry of Education, co-hosts youth climate action with the Ministry of Environment, and has supported Taipei City's disaster prevention programme since 2010. In the community, its USR team builds resilience with Daxue and Xuefu villages and uses the Chengnan area as a classroom for sustainability. Carbon inventory courses, verifier training and net-zero competitions give young people, government and industry the skills to act on climate.

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NTUST's Local community outreach for energy efficiency

Through University Social Responsibility (USR) projects, the Center for General Education and industry partnerships, NTUST takes its energy expertise to Indigenous villages in Hualien and Taoyuan, communities in Taipei and the neighbourhood of its Huaxia Campus in New Taipei, and has turned the campus itself into an open energy demonstration site. News coverage from the past two years shows five themes: Tribal energy education: Gong-Hao Spark+ and Taipower's Eastern Power Plant: An MOU with Taipower's Eastern Power Plant; the "Saving Power Starts with Me" summer school at Tongmen Elementary School in Hualien; the "Energy Monopoly" teaching game; and a renewed Mugua River Story House. Green energy for disadvantaged and Indigenous children: The USR "Sustainable Green Energy and Carbon Reduction" project installed solar panels and flywheel generators at Bethany Children's Home; with the Dandelion Hope Foundation, NTUST ran hands-on green-energy lessons for Indigenous pupils in Fuxing District, Taoyuan. Empathy Social Lab - CGE Social Practice Week "Re: Power": The Center for General Education and Taipower held 9 exhibitions, talks and visits over 5 days to help students and the public think about the energy transition in daily life. Taiwan's first urban campus microgrid: open demonstration and community resilience: The Huaxia Campus microgrid combines solar power, storage, backup generation and an energy management system (EMS) to save energy every day and supply power in disasters. It is open for visits and provides emergency charging to nearby residents during blackouts. Extension education: ESG sustainability management training: The Center for Continuing Education runs a 300-hour pre-employment ESG Sustainability Management Practice Class that builds green-job skills for job seekers.The table below summarises the audience, main actions and supporting news for each theme:1. Tribal Energy Education: Gong-Hao Spark+ USR Project with Taipower's Eastern Power Plant1.1 From a language summer school to an energy summer schoolSince 2023, NTUST's Gong-Hao Spark+ USR team has run a science summer school at Tongmen Elementary School in Hualien, first focused on language and robotics. Seeing how closely village life is linked to Taipower's hydropower facilities, the team was introduced by the school to Taipower's Eastern Power Plant. Taipower engineers taught NTUST students on site at the Chuying and Rongshu units, giving them a solid understanding of hydropower and grid operation for developing teaching materials.In 2025 the two partners ran the "Tongmen Summer School: Saving Power Starts with Me", with a hydropower science class and a "Where Does Green Energy Go?" activity that explained, in terms children understand, where electricity comes from and why saving it matters.1.2 An MOU for a long-term partnershipProject leader Ying Wang and Plant Manager Chung-Yi Lee of the Eastern Power Plant signed a memorandum of understanding for long-term cooperation on green-energy education, translating power knowledge for the public, revitalising local sites and video documentation, built around "local connection x citizen science x sustainable action". Wang said the aim is to build "a bridge from the power plant to the village classroom".1.3 Turning power science into a game children can playNTUST students used their design and engineering skills to create the "Energy Monopoly" game. It grew from a small station-based activity into a sustainability game map several metres long covering wind, hydro and grid logic, using blown balls to simulate wind power and plastic bottles to show hydropower. Plant Manager Lee took part in person two years running and suggested adding advanced topics such as carbon credits and green-energy labels.The partners also renewed Taipower's Mugua River Story House with interactive exhibits such as a retired turbine guide vane and working models, and launched a local power and culture video project in which Tongmen pupils, parents and Taipower engineers film local stories together to build a community energy archive.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2025/08/21) From tribal classroom to power plant: NTUST's Gong-Hao Spark+ project builds a bridge for energy education: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-139425,r167.php?Lang=zh-twAlso reported by: CNA PR Newswire https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/Chi/410239; PChome News https://news.pchome.com.tw/living/cna/20250821/index-17557621156752918009.html; yam News https://n.yam.com/Article/202508218736572. Green Energy for Disadvantaged and Indigenous Children2.1 Bethany Children's Home: solar panels and flywheel powerAssociate Professor Cheng-Jhe Lin (Industrial Management) and Assistant Professor Hung-Lung Chou (Applied Science and Technology) led a USR team on the "Sustainable Green Energy and Carbon Reduction" project, installing a rooftop solar system and flywheel generators with storage at Bethany Children's Home in Taipei. The Rotary Club of Taipei Chung An and Ho An Insurance Agency donated the flywheel generators.Each flywheel generator produces about 500 W and about 4 kWh over 8 hours of use, directly lowering the home's electricity bills. The team also ran flywheel contests and quizzes so the children could turn their own effort into electricity and learn to save energy in daily life.2.2 Dandelion Hope Foundation: an Earth Day green-energy lesson for Indigenous pupilsOn Earth Day 2026, the Dandelion Hope Foundation and NTUST's Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology ran a "Sustainable Green Energy Education" event for pupils from Luofu and Kuihui Elementary Schools in Fuxing District, Taoyuan, at the Dandelion Sustainable Ecological Park. Professor Hung-Lung Chou brought interactive solar models, hand-crank generators and a pedal-powered dance machine so the children could experience energy conversion first-hand, alongside sensory nature activities and an organic-soil classroom.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2024/09/23) Learning green energy through play: NTUST brings flywheel power generation to disadvantaged children: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-129038,r167.php?Lang=zh-twAlso reported by: CNA PR Newswire https://www.cna.com.tw/Postwrite/Chi/382109; Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News https://www.tssdnews.com.tw/?FID=46&CID=764815 Commercial Times (2026/04/22) Earth Day lesson with the Dandelion Foundation: Indigenous pupils generate power with their own feet and experience green energy: https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260422702078-4312083. Empathy Social Lab - CGE Social Practice Week "Re: Power"3.1 An energy-themed week with TaipowerFrom 18 to 22 May 2026, the Center for General Education held the "Empathy Social Lab - CGE Social Practice Week" on the theme "Re: Power - Design Innovation, Sustainable Practice, and Social Dialogue". With Taiwan Power Company, it ran 9 exhibitions, talks, site visits and a creative call over 5 days, expecting more than 1,000 visits. The bilingual (Chinese and English) exhibition was open to visitors from outside the university.The exhibition at the NTUST Gallery covered energy science, reuse of retired materials, public art, Taipower's Kilowatt Design Award, NTUST's microgrid research, and the Gong-Hao Spark project with the Tongmen power plant in Hualien. Visitors who completed interactive tasks received Taipower design souvenirs.3.2 Talks, visits and making: from understanding to actionThree talks covered design for social communication, a project to remake retired electricity meters, and "the second life of materials". Students and staff visited Taipower's Energym, an interactive green-energy exhibition hall, where an "energy poker" game let them simulate energy mix decisions and learn the environmental impact of different power sources; they also toured the public art at the Taipower Building. Before the week, a creative contest invited students to redesign Taipower's retired porcelain insulators.President Jia-Yush Yen said a university campus should be not only a place of learning but also a demonstration base for the energy transition. Center Director Szu-Ying Lee described the week as a full learning cycle: "exhibitions build awareness, talks deepen the issues, visits connect to real sites and making shows the results".📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2026/05/19) NTUST launches the "Empathy Social Lab - CGE Social Practice Week", opening a new cross-disciplinary learning experience: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-147817,r167.php?Lang=zh-twAlso reported by: Center for General Education event page https://cla.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1076-146474,r1476.php?Lang=zh-tw; CNA PR Newswire https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/Chi/433855; yam News https://n.yam.com/Article/202605198826684. Taiwan's First Urban Campus Microgrid: Open Demonstration and Community Resilience4.1 Saving energy every day, supplying power in disastersNTUST was the first university in northern Taiwan selected for Taipower's University Energy Saving and Power Resilience programme, and in early 2026 completed Taiwan's first urban campus microgrid at its Huaxia Campus in New Taipei. It includes a 229.68 kWp solar system, 2 MWh of battery storage, two 100 kW DC fast chargers, a 400 kW diesel backup generator and an EMS showroom. NTUST invested over NT$50 million in site infrastructure, and Taipower contributed NT$100 million.In normal operation the microgrid runs in parallel with the grid; the EMS shifts load between peak and off-peak hours and manages storage, and the rooftop solar power is 100% self-consumed. Estimated savings are about NT$540,000 a year, rising to about NT$1.26 million with optimised storage and sales of renewable energy certificates. If grid power fails, it switches to island mode and powers the whole campus for 4 hours, or 8 hours with air-conditioning shed.4.2 Supporting the neighbourhood: evacuation centre and emergency chargingThe Juyu Building on Huaxia Campus is one of New Taipei City's emergency evacuation centres. The guardhouse has 6 emergency charging points, each with two 110 V sockets and three USB ports, so nearby residents can charge phones and laptops during a large blackout and stay in contact. Dean of General Affairs Jui-Sheng Chou said the microgrid makes the campus "not just an energy user, but a hub that connects with the community and puts sustainability into practice".4.3 Open visits and knowledge sharingThe Office of General Affairs runs a Huaxia Campus Microgrid page with a tour video and media coverage; anyone can apply to visit or take part in research by submitting a facility-use form and visitor declaration. On 31 March 2026, ITRI and NTUST's Energy Management System Industry-Academia Alliance held a Disaster-Resilient Solar PV Technology Seminar on Huaxia Campus. More than 200 people from industry, academia, research and community groups (such as the ROC Urban Renewal and Dangerous Building Reconstruction Association) attended and toured the site. Speakers shared measured results: the EMS cut annual grid purchases by 9.8% and electricity costs by 25%.In October 2025, Atemitech, the Yu-Hsiu Education Foundation and the Lien Hwa MiTAC Group also donated a smart hydrogen microgrid and storage system that uses a hydrogen fuel cell, mobile storage and an EMS to demonstrate disaster-resilient microgrids and energy efficiency in green buildings. The mobile storage unit can be deployed quickly to emergency sites.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2026/09/18) NTUST builds Taiwan's first urban campus microgrid: saving energy every day and supplying power in disasters: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-151678,r167.php?Lang=zh-twAlso reported by: Central News Agency https://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/202609180238.aspx; Liberty Times https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/5578334; United Daily News https://udn.com/news/story/6929/9763336; Radio Taiwan International https://www.rti.org.tw/news?uid=3&pid=232630; National Education Radio https://www.ner.gov.tw/CultureNews/Content/26091816180693688/; Mandarin Daily News https://www.mdnkids.com/content.asp?Link_String_=249J00000LJEOJE NTUST Office of General Affairs (2026/09) Huaxia Campus Microgrid: visit and facility-use applications: https://www.general.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1054-152457,r5.php?Lang=zh-tw yam News (2026/04/02) No fear of blackouts: inside NTUST's "energy fortress" - how a disaster-resilient microgrid cuts electricity bills by 25% and protects energy security: https://n.yam.com/Article/20260402341566 Liberty Times (2025/10/07) Getac's Atemitech and the Lien Hwa MiTAC Group install a hydrogen microgrid and storage system at NTUST: https://ec.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/52031195. Extension Education: ESG Sustainability Management Training5.1 Green-job pre-employment training for job seekersThe Center for Continuing Education runs cohort 3 of the pre-employment ESG Sustainability Management Practice Class, taught by NTUST experts in environmental engineering, green energy and management together with industry ESG practitioners, to train "green-collar" talent. The 300-hour course runs on campus from 14 October to 22 December 2026 and is open to job seekers aged 20 and over with at least a senior high school education who want to work in ESG. Enrolment is through the government's Taiwan Jobs portal.The course brings energy management and sustainability knowledge to members of the public, giving them practical skills to drive energy saving and carbon reduction in companies.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Center for Continuing Education (2026/09) Pre-employment training: ESG Sustainability Management Practice Class, cohort 3 (300 hours, 14 Oct - 22 Dec 2026): https://sce.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1074-150702.php?Lang=zh-twAlso reported by: Taiwan Jobs course page (class code 166065) https://its.taiwanjobs.gov.tw/Course/Detail?ID=166065Summary of News CoverageThis indicator is supported by 9 news reports and announcements, listed by date (media that also carried each story are listed in each section):Summary: The news coverage shows NTUST's energy-efficiency and clean-energy outreach reaching from campus into the community. In Tongmen, Hualien, a long-term partnership with Taipower's Eastern Power Plant turns power science into games for Indigenous children. In Taipei and Taoyuan, flywheel, hand-crank and pedal generators let disadvantaged and Indigenous children experience green energy first-hand, and lower a children's home's electricity bills. On campus, the Social Practice Week invites students and the public to think about the energy transition in daily life. At Huaxia Campus, Taiwan's first urban campus microgrid demonstrates energy saving and resilience, is open for visits and supports nearby residents. Extension education builds ESG and energy-management skills for job seekers. The microgrid story alone was carried by more than 30 media outlets, including CNA, the Liberty Times and United Daily News.