Through the University Social Responsibility (USR) programme Engineers in Action (EIA), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST, Taiwan Tech) students and faculty work with partner universities and local communities to support practical water conservation off campus. Their work includes repairing leaking ponds and irrigation channels, maintaining irrigation facilities, and introducing water reuse and recirculation systems in Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan and rural Taiwan.
In summer 2026, one team worked with Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya in the Gubug Lazaris community, repairing leaks in ponds and irrigation channels to reduce water loss and maintaining greenhouse irrigation facilities to meet local agricultural water needs. In Pacet village, a team partnered with Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember to help establish a solar-powered aquaponic greenhouse system. At Hoa-An 1 Primary School in Vietnam, the team worked with Can Tho University to install a reverse osmosis (RO) water filtration system and incorporated a hydroponic vegetable-growing rack into plans for water reuse, introducing pupils to the concept of water recycling.
The team holds a DIY charcoal briquette workshop, where residents of Gubug Lazaris use agricultural waste to make charcoal briquettes. The activity promotes resource reuse while fostering interaction between Taiwanese students and local residents.
The team paints and decorates the toilets at Hoa-An 1 Primary School, refreshing deteriorated walls and creating a cleaner, brighter environment.
News links
English: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-152613,r1182.php?Lang=en
中文（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）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-152058,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
In summer 2025, a team collaborated with Widya Mandala Catholic University in the Gubug Lazaris area, where students helped install water pipes and set up a programmed automatic watering system for an organic greenhouse that had been left unused during the pandemic.
The team restored an organic greenhouse that had been left unused during the pandemic and installed an automatic watering system to assist with irrigation.
News links
- English: https://www.secretariat.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1063-142060.php?Lang=en
- 中文（臺科大行動工程師深耕印尼、日本、越南 展現超群實踐力）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-140988,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
In Magetan regency, Indonesia, the team helped residents build greenhouses and install solar aquaponics systems, which combine fish farming with growing vegetables. In Kawakami Village, Nara Prefecture, Japan, the team and Osaka Institute of Technology held workshops teaching local elementary and middle school students to filter spring water with simple devices made from PET bottles, activated carbon, quartz sand and cotton.
Students from Taiwan, Indonesia, and Japan collaborated to build a solar-powered aquaponics system, providing local farmers with a sustainable agriculture model.
News links
- English: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1000-131167.php?Lang=en
- 中文（從印尼、越南到日本 臺科大行動工程師深入偏鄉推動永續發展）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-129482,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw
A 50-member volunteer team spent 10 days in the Dongyue Atayal village and at Dong'ao Elementary School in Yilan County. The team built an aquaponics system that allows cultivation water to be continuously recycled, and taught pupils to make their own water filters from PET bottles and gravel.
News links
- English: https://www.secretariat.ntust.edu.tw/p/404-1063-128503.php?Lang=en
- 中文（臺科大行動工程師前往東澳：熱情與專業推動社會公益）: https://www.ntust.edu.tw/p/406-1000-127921,r167.php?Lang=zh-tw