National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST, Taiwan Tech) actively collaborates with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), charitable foundations, industry associations and international partners to promote environmental education and climate adaptation projects. In 2025–2026, these efforts focused on two themes: (1) transnational University Social Responsibility (USR) projects and educational initiatives built on university–industry–NGO collaboration, and (2) green-collar talent development and professional certification.
Under the first theme, NTUST's "Urban Mountain City" USR project has worked for years with the Taipei Zhuzhu Mama Child Education Care Association in Upper Pisang, a village in Nepal's Annapurna region, on heritage revitalization, evacuation planning and earthquake-preparedness education for children. The "Engineers in Action" (EIA) program links the Atayal community of Dongyue in Yilan with partner universities in Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam. Its teams restore greenhouses, build composting and irrigation systems, install drinking-water systems and teach renewable-energy concepts, and the program was invited to exhibit at Expo 2025 Osaka. NTUST's Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology also works with the Dandelion Hope Foundation (蒲公英希望基金會) on green-energy and sustainability lessons for Indigenous and disadvantaged children.
Under the second theme, the NTUST School of Management works with the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy (TAISE) to run the "Corporate Sustainability Manager Certification Training Program". The program covers CSR case practice, sustainable (green) finance and corporate decarbonization, and trains front-line talent for sustainability and the green transition. NTUST also works with the Logistics Association of the R.O.C., National Dong Hwa University, the Ministry of Environment and corporate partners on ESG logistics training, greenhouse-gas verification training and iPAS net-zero carbon management courses, turning sustainability principles into practical workforce skills.
In summer 2025, NTUST's USR team "Urban Mountain City: Cultivating Sustainable Talent – Rooted in Chengnan, Reaching Internationally" returned to Upper Pisang in Nepal's Annapurna region for the fourth consecutive year. The Taipei Zhuzhu Mama Child Education Care Association, a long-term NGO partner, supported the project by facilitating cross-border communication and overcoming language and cultural barriers. The team built a new retaining wall in front of a century-old house, installed road signs and a guide map, mapped evacuation routes and assembly points, and produced an earthquake-preparedness leaflet for residents. It also taught earthquake safety through games at a primary school in Manang and repaired facilities at two orphanages in Kathmandu. GO-IN Engineering joined for the first time to assess power improvements, and ties with Kathmandu University's Department of Civil Engineering were strengthened.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大深耕尼泊爾山城 共築地方創生與防災教育 (2025/09/23): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-140536,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
l NTUST News (EN): Taiwan Tech empowers Nepal's mountain communities with local revitalization and disaster education: https://www.secretariat.ntust.edu.tw/p/16-1063-140987.php?Lang=en
l CNA Press Release Platform (2025/09/23): https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/Chi/413100
In summer 2026, Professor Po-Chien Hsiao (蕭博謙) of the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering led 11 students back to Upper Pisang, where the restored century-old "Pisang Story House" officially opened as a space for cultural exchange and for travelers to rest. The team installed tourist signs, launched a tourism website, produced a promotional video and ran interactive disaster-preparedness lessons on self-protection and evacuation at a primary school in Manang. The Zhuzhu Mama Child Education Care Association again facilitated cross-border communication. GO-IN Engineering provided the power system for the Story House, several construction companies and the department's alumni association donated funds, and the team discussed disaster-mitigation research with Kathmandu University. Together these partners form a university–NGO–industry–academic collaboration model.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大持續深耕尼泊爾山城 攜手企業推動觀光與防災教育 (2026/10/14): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-152618,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
l CNA Press Release Platform (2026/10/14): https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/chi/446917
l PChome News (2026/10/14): https://news.pchome.com.tw/living/cna/20261014/index-17919436030606718009.html
Under the Ministry of Education's USR program, NTUST's "Engineers in Action" (EIA) has worked with the Atayal community of Dongyue in Nan'ao Township, Yilan, since 2020. From 7 to 16 June 2025, about 60 students and teachers from NTUST, Songshan Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School, Osaka Institute of Technology (Japan) and Widya Mandala Catholic University (Indonesia) restored the Babaw Kulu trail, which a typhoon had closed for years. They cleared drainage ditches using eco-friendly methods, installed a solar-powered guide wall, and designed eight STEAM sustainability lessons for Dongao Elementary School covering homemade generators, saponification and carbon footprints.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大行動工程師攜手日本印尼深耕東澳，翻轉偏鄉再升級 (2025/06/30): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-138039,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
In summer 2025, EIA teams worked with Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT), Widya Mandala Catholic University and Can Tho University (CTU). In Pacet Village, Indonesia, they repaired greenhouses, built a crop dryer and a composting system to support resource circulation, and ran soap-making and eco-bag workshops. In Gubug Lazaris, Indonesia, they restored an abandoned organic greenhouse and installed automatic irrigation. In Kawakami Village, Nara, Japan, they installed a rapid post-earthquake building safety assessment system and multilingual evacuation signs. In Vietnam, they improved learning spaces at Long Tuyen 2 Primary School.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大行動工程師深耕印尼、日本、越南 展現超群實踐力 (2025/10/08): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-140988,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
l NTUST News (EN): Taiwan Tech Mobile Engineers excel in Indonesia, Japan, and Vietnam: https://www.secretariat.ntust.edu.tw/p/16-1063-142060.php?Lang=en
From 25 to 27 September 2025, EIA was invited to co-host a booth with Osaka Institute of Technology in the "Future Life Village" zone of Expo 2025 Osaka. The booth presented NTUST's USR work in Yilan, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam. It was the only Taiwanese USR program exhibited at the Expo and drew more than 600 visitors over three days.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大USR國際能見度大躍進 行動工程師計畫受邀登上大阪世博 (2025/12/03): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-142778,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
l NTUST News (EN): Taiwan Tech USR Program, Engineers in Action, gains global spotlight at Osaka World Expo: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/16-1000-143617.php?Lang=en
In summer 2026, EIA again worked with ITS, UKWMS, CTU and OIT. In Gubug Lazaris, Indonesia, the team repaired leaking ponds and irrigation channels, maintained greenhouse irrigation, ran a workshop on making charcoal bricks from agricultural waste and built a solar-powered aquaponic greenhouse that combines renewable energy with circular farming. At Hoa-An 1 Primary School in Vietnam, the team installed a reverse-osmosis drinking-water system and a hydroponic rack that reuses water, improving sanitation and water access. It also ran environmental lessons such as candle-making from used cooking oil and waste-sorting games.
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l CNA Press Release Platform: 臺科大行動工程師前進印尼、越南、日本 以工程專業回應社區需求 (2026/09/24): https://www.cna.com.tw/Postwrite/Chi/445125
At the 7th Global Views USR Awards, Professor Meng-Jiy Wang's (王孟菊) "Engineers in Action" program won a Merit Award in the Sustainable Curriculum category. Associate Professor Chia-Chun Ho's (何嘉浚) team won a Model Award in the Industry Co-creation category for its project protecting the Feitsui Reservoir watershed. The awards recognize NTUST's environmental education and cross-sector collaboration.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 展現技職永續實力 臺科大榮獲2026《遠見》USR雙項大獎 (2026/04/30): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-147199,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
Professor Hung-Lung Chou's (周宏隆) team at NTUST's Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology works with the Dandelion Hope Foundation on a "Sustainable Green Energy Education Action". On Earth Day 2026, Indigenous pupils from Fuguo and Kueihui Elementary Schools in Fuxing District, Taoyuan, visited the foundation's sustainable ecological park. They tried solar-power models, hand-crank generators and pedal-powered generators, learned about native plants and practised making organic fertilizer. In July 2026 the partners co-hosted a sustainability summer camp themed "Explore Green Energy, Practise Sustainability", where disadvantaged children learned about renewable energy through flywheel generators and solar-panel demonstrations.
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l Commercial Times (ZH): 蒲公英地球日最有感一課！原鄉學童用雙腳發電 親身感受綠能魅力 (2026/04/22): https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260422702078-431208
l Taiwan Reports (ZH): 蒲公英基金會攜臺科大 推永續綠能教育: https://taiwanreports.com/archives/981590
l Commercial Times (ZH): 孩子踩出綠電也踩出希望！蒲公英攜手台科大打造全台最有電的永續夏令營 (2026/07/16): https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260716701809-431204
- Green-Collar Talent Development and Professional Certification
The NTUST School of Management has a long-standing partnership with TAISE to run the "Corporate Sustainability Manager Certification Training Program". NTUST provides venues and teaching assistants, and Professor Tsai-Chi Kuo (郭財吉) of NTUST's Department of Industrial Management serves as Secretary-General of the Taiwan Academy of Corporate Sustainability (TACS, 台灣企業永續學院), TAISE's training arm. The 10-week, 80-hour program covers sustainability standards and regulations, CSR case practice, sustainable (green) finance and corporate decarbonization, with brainstorming and hands-on exercises. At the certification ceremony on 29 June 2024, 70 participants from many industries, including many mid- and senior-level managers, received their certificates after passing the examination. Speakers from Billion Watts Technologies and Cathay Financial Holdings shared approaches to net-zero emissions and corporate sustainability transformation. TAISE continues to offer the program.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大與臺灣永續能源研究基金會合作開辦「企業永續管理師證照培訓班」 培養永續金融人才: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-126882,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
l NTUST News (EN): Taiwan Tech and Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy Research launch 'Corporate Sustainability Manager Certification' Training: https://www.secretariat.ntust.edu.tw/p/16-1063-127457.php?Lang=en
l TAISE course page: Corporate Sustainability Manager Certification Training (2026.11–2027.01): https://taise.org.tw/events/courses/%E5%AF%A6%E9%AB%94%E4%BC%81%E6%A5%AD%E6%B0%B8%E7%BA%8C%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E5%B8%AB%E8%AD%89%E7%85%A7%E5%9F%B9%E8%A8%93%E7%8F%AD2026-11-2027-01%E6%9C%88/
The NTUST School of Management and the Logistics Association of the R.O.C. launched the first "Smart Logistics Technology Integration Engineer Program". It offers 48 hours of coursework and 6 hours of company site visits, covering sustainable smart logistics and ESG implementation to help the logistics industry cut carbon emissions through digital transformation.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大攜手物流協會開設智慧物流工程師班 聚焦ESG推動產業數位轉型 (2025/04/15): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-135513,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
The NTUST office of the Ministry of Education's Industry–Academia Talent Cultivation Platform and National Dong Hwa University's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies jointly ran an ISO 14064 Greenhouse Gas Lead Verifier course (6–10 July 2026, 40 hours) and an iPAS Net-Zero Carbon Manager (Entry Level) course (13 July 2026, 8 hours). The courses were open to school teachers, government officials and corporate ESG and GHG inventory staff, with 150 in-person places and unlimited online participation.
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l Course brochure: iPAS Net-Zero Carbon Planning Manager Practical Training (NDHU & NTUST Talent Platform Office): https://www.ccsh.tn.edu.tw/newsupload/iPAS%20%E6%B7%A8%E9%9B%B6%E7%A2%B3%E8%A6%8F%E5%8A%83%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E5%B8%AB%E5%AF%A6%E5%8B%99%E6%87%89%E7%94%A8%E7%A0%94%E7%BF%92%E8%AA%B2%E7%A8%8B1150609.pdf
l Course announcement: https://news.stust.edu.tw/id/94805
NTUST held a carbon inventory system donation ceremony and net-zero forum, where it issued its Net-Zero Declaration. Industry and academic experts discussed carbon management, digital enablement and sustainability transformation. The donated carbon inventory system is now used in campus governance and teaching to build practical carbon-management skills.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大舉辦論壇發表淨零宣言 啟動永續轉型 (2025/04/17): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-135620,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
NTUST and the Ministry of Environment co-hosted a campus lecture in the "Youth Participation in Climate Action" series, themed "Data, Technology and Civic Action: Co-creating Sustainable Cities". Nearly 130 students and members of the public took part and discussed how young people can use data and technology in climate action.
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l NTUST News (ZH): 臺科大攜手環境部推動氣候行動 產官學共探數據科技邁向永續城市 (2026/05/28): https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-148240,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
3.Summary of News Coverage
Note: Compiled from NTUST official news, the CNA press release platform, Commercial Times, the TAISE website and course brochures (retrieved 2026/11/04). Links marked (ZH) are in Chinese.