NTUST sees basic services as things everyone should be able to obtain: water, electricity, safe roads and living conditions, and education, job training and the chance to start a business. Building on its engineering and technical-education strengths, NTUST meets this responsibility through four types of programmes and courses: Engineers in Action (USR): This programme combines basic engineering with project-based learning (PBL). Students go to rural communities in Taiwan, such as Dong'ao in Yilan, and to communities in Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, where they build trails, water and power systems, drinking-water facilities and school facilities. This improves local access to infrastructure and education. NTUST Silicon Valley Program: The Business Incubation Center selects campus start-up teams for training in Silicon Valley, with up to NT$250,000 per team, giving students and staff access to international start-up resources and markets. Pre-employment Training: ESG Sustainability Management Practice Class: The School of Continuing Education runs this 300-hour, government-commissioned course for unemployed people who want to work in ESG, helping them gain green skills and return to work. General education and sustainability courses: The Center for General Education offers cross-disciplinary courses and social-practice events that deepen students' understanding of social structures, media access, sustainable development and care for disadvantaged groups. It also opens its learning to high-school students and local residents. The table below summarises the basic services each programme improves and the supporting news:1. Engineers in Action: Bringing Infrastructure and Education to Rural Communities1.1 PurposeEngineers in Action is a Ministry of Education (MOE) University Social Responsibility (USR) project led by Professor Meng-Jiy Wang (Chemical Engineering), with Associate Professor Chiu-Yen Wang (Materials Science and Engineering) as co-PI. It starts from basic engineering skills and uses project-based learning (PBL) to train engineers who communicate well, care about people and think green. The programme has trained nearly 1,000 students. Its sites include rural Taiwan (such as Dong'ao and Siji elementary schools in Yilan) and communities in Indonesia and Vietnam, and its work covers bridge repair, power systems and better living conditions.1.2 The Atayal community of Dong'ao, Yilan: trails, solar guide walls and school information boardsThe programme has worked in Dongyue village, Nan'ao Township, Yilan County, since 2020. From 7 to 16 June 2025, about 60 students and teachers from NTUST, Songshan Agricultural and Industrial High School, Osaka Institute of Technology (Japan) and Widya Mandala Catholic University (Indonesia) worked together as an international team for the first time. Using eco-friendly methods, they reopened the Snake Mountain Trail (Babaw Kulu), which had been closed for years, repairing steps, handrails, a pavilion and drainage. They installed a solar-powered guide wall at Dong'ao Station with audio in five languages (Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean and Atayal), set up an Indigenous-language information board at Dong'ao Elementary School, and designed eight STEAM sustainability lessons.1.3 Overseas communities: water, power, drinking water and disaster safetyIn summer 2025, the team repaired a greenhouse and built a crop dryer and composting system in Pacet village, Indonesia; repaired roofs, laid water pipes and wiring, and installed automatic irrigation in Gubug Lazaris; installed a post-earthquake rapid building-safety assessment system and multilingual evacuation signs at a shelter in Kawakami, Nara, Japan; and built a reading corner, play equipment and a football pitch at Long Tuyen 2 Primary School in Can Tho, Vietnam.In summer 2026, the team installed a reverse-osmosis drinking-water filter and renovated toilets and lighting at Hoa-An 1 Primary School in Vietnam; built a solar-powered aquaponics greenhouse, a reading room and road-safety signs in Pacet, and repaired leaking ponds and channels in Gubug Lazaris, Indonesia; and repaired sports facilities and ran a structures workshop in Otari, Nagano, Japan. This work directly improves local access to clean water, sanitation, power and a safe environment.1.4 International recognitionFrom 25 to 27 September 2025, the programme was invited to exhibit with Osaka Institute of Technology in the Future Life Village at Expo 2025 Osaka. It was the only Taiwanese USR project shown at the Expo and drew more than 600 visitors in three days. In April 2026 it received a Merit Award (Sustainability Curriculum category) at the 7th Global Views USR Awards.📰 News and evidence links for this section [Direct] NTUST Official Website (2025/06/30) NTUST Engineers in Action partner with Japan and Indonesia to revitalise rural Dong'ao: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-138039,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Direct] 1111 Job Bank News (2025/07/01) Can education transform rural areas? NTUST Engineers in Action light up the Dong'ao community with technology: https://www.1111.com.tw/news/jobns/161380 [Direct] NTUST Official Website (2025/10/08) NTUST Engineers in Action work in Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-140988,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Direct] NTUST Official Website (2025/12/03) NTUST USR goes international: Engineers in Action invited to Expo 2025 Osaka: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-142778,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Direct] NTUST Official Website (2026/04/30) NTUST wins two awards at the 2026 Global Views USR Awards: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-147199,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Direct] CNA Press Release Platform (2026/09/24) NTUST Engineers in Action go to Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, using engineering to meet community needs: https://www.cna.com.tw/Postwrite/Chi/4451252. NTUST Silicon Valley Program: International Start-up Resources for Campus Teams2.1 Programme designThe Business Incubation Center runs the NTUST Silicon Valley Program for campus spin-off teams. Teams need at least two members drawn mainly from NTUST staff and students, and at least one NTUST teacher or industry mentor as advisor. Each team receives up to NT$250,000. Selected teams pitch on an international stage in Silicon Valley, get face-to-face advice from venture capitalists, visit Google and international accelerators, and are supported by the Northern California alumni network.2.2 ResultsAccording to the Center's results page, 22 teams travelled to Silicon Valley between 2017 and 2025 (no teams are listed for 2020-2022 due to the pandemic), including Anx.IO Bio, Ergonome and Boring AI in 2025 and MIT Studio, COTWO and B-ECO in 2024. The programme gives students from all backgrounds access to international markets, investors and mentors that would otherwise be hard to reach.📰 News and evidence links for this section [Indirect] NTUST Business Incubation Center (Not stated) NTUST Silicon Valley Program highlights (teams 2017-2025): https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/%e8%87%ba%e7%a7%91%e8%b5%b4%e7%9f%bd%e8%b0%b7%e8%a8%88%e7%95%ab%e6%88%90%e6%9e%9c%e8%8a%b1%e7%b5%ae [Indirect] NTUST Business Incubation Center (2026/03/31) Hey entrepreneurs, how far is Silicon Valley? 15 April briefing on the 2026 NTUST Silicon Valley Program for campus start-up teams: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11347/3. Pre-employment Training: ESG Sustainability Management Practice Class3.1 Job training for unemployed peopleThe School of Continuing Education runs the government-commissioned ESG Sustainability Management Practice Class, now in its fourth cohort. It is open to unemployed people aged 20 or over with at least a high-school education who want to work in ESG-related jobs. Applicants register through Taiwan Jobs, the national employment portal, and are selected by written test and interview. Cohort 4 runs for 300 hours from 30 November 2026 to 17 February 2027.The course brings together NTUST experts in environmental engineering, green energy and management with ESG practitioners from industry, following a full training map to prepare "green-collar" workers. It gives unemployed people the skills they need to enter green industries and improves their job prospects.📰 News and evidence links for this section [Direct] NTUST School of Continuing Education (Not stated) Pre-employment Training: ESG Sustainability Management Practice Class, Cohort 4 (enrolment notice): https://sce.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1074-152093.php?Lang=zh-tw4. General Education and Sustainability Courses: Understanding Social Structures and Disadvantaged Groups4.1 Social Practice Week and community partnershipsThe Center for General Education offers cross-disciplinary courses that deepen students' understanding of social structures, media access, sustainable development and care for disadvantaged groups. The first CGE Social Lab Social Practice Week in May 2025 worked with the Spring Bud social-innovation association to promote the circular economy and women's empowerment by upcycling coffee burlap bags, and with the Mekong Cultural Hub to explore climate and social challenges in Southeast Asia. The second edition in May 2026, "Re:Power", partnered with Taiwan Power Company on nine exhibitions, talks and visits about energy literacy and a USR project with the Tongmen Power Plant in Hualien, with more than 1,000 visits expected.The Chengnan Forum on 5 December 2025 brought in scholars and local practitioners from National Penghu University of Science and Technology, the Taitung Sustainable Development Association and others to discuss how general education can create social impact. The 2025 Social Practice Expo held the same day showed student projects such as "Dong'ao Culture and Sustainable Action" and "Technology Empowering Rural Areas for Urban-Rural Prosperity". In August 2026, the Center's Chengnan College signed an MOU with the Taipei Culture Foundation's Huanmin New Village at Toad Mountain, making the settlement a field site for general-education courses and USR.4.2 Summer schools open to high-school studentsThe Center runs the annual Chengren STREAM Immersive Summer School. The second edition, on 2-5 July 2025, invited high-school students from across Taiwan to try mBot programming, 3D printing and green energy, and to do fieldwork in the Treasure Hill, Jiahe New Village and Toad Mountain communities, where they proposed "social prescriptions". On 7-10 July 2026, 13 high-school students from across Taiwan learned alongside 15 NTUST students, giving young people outside the university access to its teaching resources.📰 News and evidence links for this section [Indirect] NTUST Official Website (2025/05/14) Upcycled burlap bags and an international film showcase: NTUST Social Practice Week links bilingual teaching and cross-disciplinary skills: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-136525,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Direct] NTUST Official Website (2025/08/05) Technology × humanities × public issues: NTUST immersive summer school makes "the community a classroom": https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-138994,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Indirect] NTUST Official Website (2025/12/26) NTUST "Chengnan Forum" and Social Practice Expo turn knowledge into impact: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-143391,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Indirect] NTUST Official Website (2026/05/19) NTUST launches the CGE Social Lab Social Practice Week (Re:Power, with Taipower): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-147817,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Direct] NTUST Official Website (2026/08/13) Chengnan as a classroom: NTUST builds young people's cross-disciplinary practice skills: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-150646,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw [Indirect] NTUST Official Website (2026/08/31) NTUST partners with Huanmin New Village at Toad Mountain, taking general education into the Chengnan cultural corridor: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-151078,r167.php?Lang=zh-twSummary of News CoverageThis indicator is supported by 15 news reports and evidence pages covering four programmes: Engineers in Action (6), the Silicon Valley Program (2), ESG pre-employment training (1) and general education and sustainability courses (6). Following the THE scoring criterion "Existence of programmes: maximum one point for directly supplied, only 0.25 points for indirect programmes", they are grouped by the impact of the action each item reports: Directly supplied: NTUST staff and students carry out the work themselves and supply basic services or training directly to communities or the public. Examples: Engineers in Action building trails, solar power, drinking-water and sanitation facilities and teaching in rural and overseas communities (including reports of its Expo exhibit and award), the School of Continuing Education's ESG pre-employment training for unemployed people, and the Center for General Education's summer schools for high-school students across Taiwan. 9 items. Indirect: NTUST does not supply a basic service to a community directly, but promotes access indirectly by training campus teams, raising student awareness, hosting forums or forming partnerships. Examples: the Silicon Valley start-up training, Social Practice Week, the Chengnan Forum and the Toad Mountain MOU. 6 items. A. News on directly supplied programmes B. News on indirect programmesSummary: The coverage shows NTUST using its engineering and technical-education strengths to promote access to basic services for all. Engineers in Action builds trails, solar power, drinking-water and school facilities in rural Taiwan and in communities in Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan. The Silicon Valley Program gives campus teams access to international start-up resources. ESG pre-employment training helps unemployed people gain green skills and jobs. General education and sustainability courses deepen students' understanding of social structures and disadvantaged groups and open NTUST's teaching to high-school students and local communities.

In line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 1 "No Poverty", NTUST treats poverty reduction as long-term work to protect the right to education, narrow urban-rural and digital divides, and build the capacity of disadvantaged groups. NTUST acts through campus support systems, general education, University Social Responsibility (USR) projects and international service, from the local to the global level: Financial support for disadvantaged students: NTUST provides a full aid system for students with financial need, including need-based scholarships and grants, emergency relief funds and on-campus work-study jobs, supplemented by corporate scholarships. These ease financial pressure and safeguard students' right to education and basic living. General education and sustainability courses: The Center for General Education and the Language Center offer courses such as "Introduction to Sustainable Development" and "Sustainable Development and Society", which bring SDG 1 and social-justice issues into teaching and build students' social responsibility. USR and local practice: NTUST runs USR projects such as healthcare outreach for elderly people in rural areas, community science and environmental education, mentor-led tutoring in students' home towns, and camps for new-immigrant families. These reach under-resourced communities and narrow gaps in information, learning and professional skills. International and transnational service: Through teacher education and transnational student teams, NTUST brings digital education, life education and international social responsibility to Kenya and the Philippines (Manila and Cebu), extending poverty relief and educational equity to the region and the world. The table below summarises NTUST's main actions at each level and the supporting news: 1. Local Level: Campus Financial Support and Disadvantaged Children in Taipei 1.1 Financial support system for disadvantaged studentsNTUST maintains a complete aid system for students with financial need, covering need-based scholarships and grants, emergency relief funds and on-campus work-study. It helps students from low-income families, or whose families face a sudden crisis, to stay in school, which helps break the cycle of poverty across generations.NTUST also brings in corporate support for disadvantaged students. In July 2025, Taiwan Fertilizer Co. donated nearly NT$2 million in scholarships, of which NT$600,000 went to NTUST for 20 students in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology. The awards go to high-achieving students from families in financial difficulty, and international students from New Southbound Policy countries are especially encouraged to apply.1.2 Green-energy education for disadvantaged children: flywheel power at Bethany Children's HomeUnder NTUST's USR "Sustainable Green Energy and Carbon Reduction" project, Associate Professor Cheng-Jhe Lin (Industrial Management) and Assistant Professor Hung-Lung Chou (Applied Science and Technology) led students to install a rooftop solar system and flywheel generators with storage at Bethany Children's Home. They also ran game-based lessons, such as flywheel contests and quizzes, to teach the children how flywheel and solar power work.The Rotary Club of Taipei Chung An and Ho An Insurance Agency donated two flywheel generators. Each has an output of about 500 W and generates about 4 kWh over 8 hours of use, directly lowering the home's electricity bills while providing environmental education.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2025/07/21) Industry-academia partnership: Taiwan Fertilizer scholarships support sustainable chemical-engineering talent at NTUST: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-138593,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw 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-tw2. Regional Level: Rural and Indigenous Communities in Eastern Taiwan 2.1 EMBA Alumni "Dream Come True in Taipei": narrowing the urban-rural gapOn 4-5 July 2024, the NTUST EDBA/EMBA Alumni Association brought 68 pupils from three rural primary schools in Hualien County (Guanyin, Changliang and Mingli) to Taipei, supported by nearly 300 alumni volunteers. The children saw NTUST's Formula Student electric race car and robots, tried VR/MR at the Department of Design, joined career tours, and visited Taipei 101 and the zoo. A thank-you dinner encouraged gratitude and social responsibility.The trip followed the previous year's "Gift of Love for Hualien", in which 104 alumni donated and 41 travelled at their own expense to deliver 253 gifts to pupils at six rural schools. This long-term support responds to the way the urban-rural gap limits children's sense of what their future can be.2.2 Engineers in Action: the Atayal community of Dong'ao, YilanThe Ministry of Education (MOE) USR project "Engineers in Action" has worked in Dongyue (Dong'ao) village, Nan'ao Township, Yilan County, for six years since 2020. From 7 to 16 June 2025, about 60 students and teachers from NTUST, Osaka Institute of Technology (Japan), Widya Mandala Catholic University (Indonesia) and Songshan Agricultural and Industrial High School rebuilt the Snake Mountain Trail with eco-friendly methods. They also installed a solar-powered guide wall at Dong'ao Station with audio in five languages (Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean and Atayal), set up an Indigenous-language information board at Dong'ao Elementary School, and designed eight STEAM lessons.By combining infrastructure, tourism guidance and education, the project strengthens the community's ability to develop local tourism and improves both economic and educational conditions in a remote Indigenous village.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2024/07/08) NTUST EMBA Alumni help rural Hualien children "Make a Dream Come True in Taipei", opening up future choices: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-126794,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw NTUST Official Website (2025/06/30) NTUST Engineers in Action partner with Japan and Indonesia to revitalise rural Dong'ao: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-138039,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw3. National Level: Curriculum, Policy Alignment and Multi-County Rural Service3.1 SDG 1 in general education and sustainability coursesThe Center for General Education and the Language Center offer courses such as "Introduction to Sustainable Development" and "Sustainable Development and Society". These cover poverty, inequality and social justice so that students across the university understand the structural causes of poverty and go on to service learning and USR work.3.2 USR and educational equity in line with national policyIn line with the MOE University Social Responsibility policy and the "I-Villages: Mobility for Change" programme, NTUST runs projects including healthcare outreach for rural elderly people, community science and environmental education, mentor-led tutoring in students' home towns, and camps for new-immigrant families. These bring university knowledge and people to under-resourced communities across Taiwan.3.3 Sweet Potato Ball volunteer team: technology equity in seven countiesThe Sweet Potato Ball volunteer team was founded by skills-competition students in the Bachelor Program of Applied Science and Technology and is advised by Chia-Wen Hu. Guided by the idea "from rural areas, giving back to rural areas", the team has since 2023 brought hands-on STEAM lessons such as 3D printing and laser engraving, combined with local culture, to New Taipei, Miaoli, Hsinchu, Changhua, Nantou, Yilan and Hualien. Participants range from 8 to 88 years old. By April 2026 the team had run 22 tailored sessions with 96 volunteer shifts, serving more than 510 people.The team received the MOE Youth Development Administration's 2nd Youth Volunteer Award (Rising Star) in 2025 and met the President, then received the Youth Volunteer Excellence Award in 2026. One team leader founded a science-education company after graduating to continue this work in rural areas, showing the long-term value of technical education in building capacity in disadvantaged regions.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2025/05/20) NTUST "Sweet Potato Ball" volunteers bring hands-on STEAM to rural Taiwan and win national Youth Volunteer Award: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-136716,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw NTUST Official Website (2026/04/08) Turning technical skills into impact: NTUST Sweet Potato Ball volunteer team showcases results: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-146363,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw4. Global Level: Transnational Educational Equity and International Social Responsibility4.1 Kenya digital-education volunteers and the Transnational Service Co-learning CourseIn summer 2023, with MOE support, Professor Shelley Shwu-Ching Young of the Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education ran the "Equation of Love" Kenya service project, leading 17 student volunteers (mainly from NTUST, with others from National Tsing Hua University and National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences) on a 20-day trip to Nyeri, Kenya. At Christ the King Girls' Secondary School and St. Mary's Boys' Secondary School they taught SDG-themed drawing, social-emotional learning, information literacy and AI picture-book creation, and they visited Gititu Secondary School. The aim was to "internationalise rural Taiwan and digitalise education in Kenya".The team then launched the Innovative Transnational Service Co-learning Course, which brings together 75 Taiwanese secondary students, 75 Taiwanese university students and 75 Kenyan secondary students for online learning. Rural Taiwanese children gain international experience and Kenyan students gain access to digital learning, narrowing digital and resource gaps on both sides.4.2 Life education and social-responsibility exploration in the slums of Manila, the PhilippinesUnder NTUST's USR project led by Professor Young, teacher-education students from a partner university, NTUST students and students from Sanchong Commercial and Industrial Vocational High School formed a joint team for the first time. They spent a week in Manila and Cebu on life-experience lessons, community service and cultural exchange. Working with the global humanitarian organisation Metro World Child, the team visited a Manila slum beside a garbage mountain, where more than half of the families live in less than about 6.6 m² (two ping). They joined children's Sunday school activities, handed out supplies and played games with the children.Facing extreme poverty first-hand helps future teachers and young people build empathy and a will to act on poverty, extending NTUST's concern for poverty relief and educational equity to Southeast Asia.4.3 AI life-education workshop with African studentsIn February 2025, Assistant Professor Tsai-Ju Lee and Professor Young ran an online "Life Review" workshop for 71 participants from Malawi and Kenya studying medicine, education and law. Participants used AI to write scripts, generate images and edit videos, producing more than 60 life-review videos while building AI literacy and cross-cultural understanding.📰 News and evidence links for this section NTUST Official Website (2023/09/17) Volunteers fly 9,000 km to promote digital education; NTUST to launch transnational digital co-learning with Kenyan students: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1000-117070.php?Lang=zh-tw (also published on the NTUST USR website: https://usr.ntust.edu.tw/news/23) NTUST Official Website (2024/10/24) NTUST teacher-education students join vocational high-school students for the first time to bring life education to slums in the Philippines: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-130371,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw NTUST Official Website (2025/02/18) AI meets humanistic care: NTUST and African students create AI videos for cross-cultural life education: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-133525,r167.php?Lang=zh-twSummary of News Coverage This indicator is supported by 9 news reports covering the local, regional and national levels (2 each) and the global level (3):Summary: The news coverage shows NTUST's poverty-reduction work reaching from campus to the world. Locally, the aid system and corporate scholarships protect disadvantaged students' right to education, and a children's home has lower electricity bills. Regionally, NTUST gives long-term support to rural and Indigenous communities in Hualien and Yilan. Nationally, general-education courses and volunteer service across seven counties narrow technology and learning gaps. Globally, digital education, life education in slums and AI life education connect NTUST with Kenya, the Philippines and Malawi. Together these show NTUST's strategy of using education and technology to address SDG 1.

NTUST supports financially, socially and environmentally sustainable start-ups on campus and in the surrounding community through its Business Incubation Center (Taiwan Tech Innovation Incubator, Tii), the School of Continuing Education, academic departments, and its University Social Responsibility (USR) projects. With more than 26 years of incubation experience, the Center runs the "Taiwan Tech Industry Accelerator", which brings together distinguished alumni, industry mentors and NTUST's technical expertise in a model where established companies help smaller ones grow.NTUST's resources fall into two groups, depending on whether participants pay:Free resources: entrepreneurship talks, start-up resource briefings, hands-on workshops, the Global Talent Entrepreneurship Program (GTEP), the U-start Acceleration Camp and application coaching, start-up competitions, local USR collaboration, and pre-employment training that is fully subsidised for eligible trainees.Paid resources: professional courses for employed workers offered by the School of Continuing Education (e.g. the Carbon Inventory Practice Course), with government subsidies that greatly reduce the trainee's share. Incubator residency is provided under a tenancy agreement.1. Mentorship & Training Workshops1.1 Global Talent Entrepreneurship Program (GTEP) [Free]In 2022 NTUST launched the Global Talent Entrepreneurship Program (GTEP), a free, English-language, roughly six-month programme open to international students across Taiwan. It offers lean start-up courses and one-to-one expert mentoring, and ends with a Demo Day competition. The first cohort drew 10 teams from 8 universities and 13 countries. Winners included sustainability-focused ventures such as AFA, which recycles plastic bags into eco-friendly bags.The 4th GTEP Demo Day was held on 28 November 2025 in NTUST's International Building. After about six months of training and mentoring, teams from five countries competed alongside international teams from partner universities in Thailand. The total prize pool was NT$270,000, including a Special Excellence Award (NT$100,000), an Excellence Award (NT$50,000), Merit Awards and shortlist prizes.1.2 Silicon Valley and Overseas Training [Free / Funded]Working with its alumni, NTUST set up the "NTUST Silicon Valley Center" in the United States in 2016 and launched the "Taiwan Tech to Silicon Valley" programme. The programme selects campus spin-off teams with international market potential and funds them to train in Silicon Valley, visit companies, and meet investors and experienced entrepreneur-mentors. When they return, teams share what they learned and take up residency at the NTUST incubator for continued support.1.3 Entrepreneurship Talks and Hands-on Workshops [Free]The Business Incubation Center holds free, open talks and workshops in its Micro Garage, where founders share practical experience from the first idea through product development to a working business model1.4 Sustainability and ESG Professional Training [Free] / [Paid]The School of Continuing Education brings together NTUST experts in environmental engineering, green energy and management with ESG practitioners from industry. Its sustainability courses help job seekers and employed workers bring sustainability and carbon-management skills into their businesses:Pre-employment training: ESG Sustainability Management Practice Course, Cohort 4 (free): 20 Nov 2026 to 29 Jan 2027, 300 hours, for job seekers who want to work in ESG roles, training future green-collar professionals. Eligible trainees receive a full subsidy.Industrial talent course: Carbon Inventory Practice Course, Cohort 1 (paid): 9 to 23 May 2026, 18 hours, taught through case studies and hands-on exercises by an instructor specialising in ISO 14064, ISO 50001 and carbon footprinting. The fee is NT$3,510. Eligible employed workers receive a subsidy of at least 80% and pay NT$702.📰 News and evidence links for this section • CNA (5 Dec 2022) NTUST builds a cradle for international talent, pioneers start-up training for foreign students: https://www.cna.com.tw/Postwrite/Chi/330653 • Tii (Nov 2025) 4th GTEP Demo Day international competition concludes: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11194/ • Tii, 4th GTEP Demo Day event page: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11168/ • Tii, 2018 "Taiwan Tech to Silicon Valley" call for applications: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/4067/ • AI-Driven Business Innovation workshop: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/10982/ • "Entrepreneurs Are Here": Qunqingji https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11131/ | Mingtian Design https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11163/ • ESG Sustainability Management Practice Course: https://sce.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1074-152093.php?Lang=zh-tw • Carbon Inventory Practice Course: https://sce.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1074-146434.php?Lang=zh-tw2. Financial & Start-up Assistance2.1 Ministry of Education U-start Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program [Free]The Business Incubation Center coaches current students and alumni who graduated within the last five academic years as they form teams and apply to the Ministry of Education's U-start programme. U-start provides basic start-up funding in Stage 1 and additional grants for outstanding teams in Stage 2. Over five years, 37 NTUST teams received U-start funding, the most of any university in Taiwan. In 2022 alone, 8 teams passed Stage 1 (NT$4 million in total), and 3 of them were named outstanding teams and received another NT$1.1 million, for NT$5.1 million overall.To help teams write their proposals, the Center held briefings on the 2026 U-start Stage 1 application (9 to 11 Dec 2025). It also ran the free 4th U-start Acceleration Camp (10 Jan 2026, Micro Garage), with courses on pitching, product design and market strategy, start-up financial planning, and IP and patent strategy. Past U-start teams mentored participants one to one on their proposals. The camp was open to university students, recent graduates and young people aged 18 to 35, including foreign nationals with residence visas.2.2 Taiwan Tech Rising Star Start-up Competition [Free]The NTUST Distinguished Alumni Association runs this competition together with the university's start-up support system. Distinguished alumni mentor each team one to one, and the champion receives a NT$1,000,000 start-up fund. The 4th final took place on 19 September 2025 and was won by Boling Intelligent Control, an AI workflow-automation platform. Each finalist received NT$30,000 and each semi-finalist NT$20,000. Six coaching mentors and a panel of alumni and industry judges took part.📰 News and evidence links for this section • CNA (16 Nov 2022) NTUST start-ups win NT$5.1 million in U-start funding, the most teams funded nationwide: https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/329122 • Tii, 4th NTUST U-start Acceleration Camp: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11226/ • Tii, 2026 U-start Stage 1 application briefing: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11179/ • Tii, 4th Taiwan Tech Rising Star selection concludes: https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11204/ • NTUST News: NT.1,000,000 for Rising Stars to Shine: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/16-1000-106531.php?Lang=en3. Access to University Facilities3.1 Accelerator Residency and Co-working Space [Briefings free] / [Residency by agreement]The Business Incubation Center offers office space, the Micro Garage co-working space and company residency, and links early-stage teams with NTUST laboratories, faculty expertise and industry mentors. With listed company Liontek (撼訊科技), the Center runs a joint R&D centre that hosts start-ups on campus. It also helps teams apply for government grants, matches them with partner companies and promotes their products.To make these resources easier to reach, the Center held the free "2025 Taiwan Tech Accelerator Call for Applications and Start-up Resource Briefings":Session 1: 27 Mar 2025, Glass House, 1F International Building. Besides presenting incubation space and coaching services, outside agencies explained the Taipei City industry incentive programme, government policy resources for registered international incubators, the AI start-up investment programme, and the Startup Island TAIWAN overseas programme.Session 2: 16 Oct 2025, online, on start-up funding, financial planning and AI R&D resources.3.2 Technology Transfer and Industry-Academia CollaborationThrough the technology transfer function of the Office of Industry-Academia Collaboration and its specialist research centres, NTUST licenses patented technology and arranges industry partnerships, so that start-ups and local businesses can use university research. In 2025 the value of NTUST's industry-academia contracts topped NT$530 million, and IP income in 2024 reached NT$130 million, both record highs. With 73 invention patents in 2025, NTUST ranked fourth among Taiwanese universities. Its "steel side-brace buckling-restrained member" is licensed non-exclusively and has been licensed 89 times, so many small and medium-sized firms can use it.📰 News and evidence links for this section • Business Today (24 Dec 2024) NTUST Business Incubation Center focuses on technology and engineering, accelerating a big-helps-small incubation model: https://www.businesstoday.com.tw/article/category/183030/post/202412240021/ • 1111 Job Bank News (17 Mar 2026) NTUST ranks 4th in patents; industry-academia contracts top NT$530 million: https://www.1111.com.tw/news/jobns/164956 • 2025 Accelerator Call and Start-up Resource Briefing (Session 1): https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/10945/ • 2025 Accelerator Call and Start-up Resource Briefing II (online): https://www.bic.ntust.edu.tw/11134/4. Local Community & USR [Free]Through its University Social Responsibility (USR) projects, NTUST takes faculty and students into local communities. They work with residents, local governments, farmers' associations and community groups to build sustainable models that combine social benefit with regional revitalisation:Chengnan Unlimited: Sustainable Co-creation of the City and the Unlimited University: set in Taipei's Chengnan district, where NTUST is located, this project plans a cultural and environmental corridor linking the Gongguan campus, the Huizi Building, the Toad Mountain settlement and the Chengnan Academy. It returns what the project has built up to the community to support local sustainable development and revitalisation."From Fields to Stage: A Regional Revitalisation Experiment" (Guanshan, Taitung): in February 2026 NTUST's Department of Architecture signed an MOU with Waseda University, the University of Shiga Prefecture, the Guanshan Township Office and the Guanshan Farmers' Association. Together they are redesigning the association's "Mi Guo School" public space, reusing driftwood from Typhoon Morakot as building material. Students interview residents and contribute designs, Supporting local agritourism and food-education businesses.Engineers in Action: an international-collaboration project in the Ministry of Education's fourth USR phase. It works with universities in Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan on sanitation and water needs in remote communities.2026 MOE USR Joint Capacity-Building Event: on 18 September 2026 NTUST hosted "New Horizons for Sustainability: Innovation, Diffusion and International Cooperation". Scholars and practitioners from Taiwan, Japan, the US and Indonesia shared experience in regional revitalisation, smart governance and community resilience.📰 News and evidence links for this section • CNA (26 Feb 2026) NTUST Architecture partners with Japan in Guanshan, Taitung, to transform rural public space for regional revitalisation: https://www.cna.com.tw/Postwrite/Chi/426734 • CNA (21 Sep 2026) NTUST brings together USR experience from Taiwan, Japan, the US and Indonesia: https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/444750 • CommonWealth Magazine: NTUST "Chengnan Unlimited" project: https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5123189 • LINE TODAY: "Chengnan Unlimited" USR project: https://today.line.me/tw/v2/article/nXgeNEKSummary of News CoverageSummary: Media coverage shows that NTUST's start-up support covers four areas: talent training (GTEP, talks and workshops, ESG training), funding (the most U-start teams funded nationwide and a NT$1 million start-up fund), facilities and technology (the accelerator and record technology-licensing income), and local engagement (USR work in Chengnan, Guanshan and remote communities overseas). Most of these resources are free to students, alumni, job seekers and local communities, and government subsidies cut the trainee's share of paid professional courses to 20% or less. Together they show NTUST meeting SDG 1.4.1 by supporting sustainable local start-ups.

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