International Student Sources and Exchanges 

Establishing a stable and close communication platform with global partners to stabilize the international student population and enhance international cooperation.

1.Establishment of sister schools and signing of joint dual-degree structure:

Currently, there are 370 overseas sister schools, 89% of which are located in Asia, and 5 sister schools have signed joint dual-degree scheme with a total of 8 programs. 251 foreign exchange students were enrolled in 2019-2024 and 263 students went abroad on exchange. In 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of exchange students and interns, both going abroad and coming from abroad, affected by border control, was greatly reduced. However, the number of exchange students has increased since 2023.

2.Establishment of an International College

The International College was established in the 2018 to integrate all foreign language curriculums, optimize internationalized teaching and learning environment for learning Chinese, and offer credit-bearing programs in all English to enhance learning and career matching.

3.Establishment of Medan Office in Indonesia by combining the alumni association network: To set up an overseas office to explore opportunities for internships, study abroad and exchanges.

4.Cooperation with Taiwan Study Support Center and promoting Japanese students to study in Taiwan.

International Cooperation & Interchange 2024

Strengthen the mechanism and effectiveness of students' transnational learning

1. Communicating and coordinating with sister schools for intra-school exchange every year to discuss how the courses in the exchange school will match the students’ majors in their original institution.
2. Since 2015, the school has been subsidized by the Ministry of Education's Xuehai Scholarship every year, and has recommended many students to go abroad for exchange and internship. From 2019 to 2024, a total of 263 students have been recommended to go abroad for exchange. The application of the Xuehai Scholarship gives students financial support and provides underprivileged students with opportunities to reduce economic pressure.
3. The school organizes regular seminars on overseas exchange and scholarship application every year to promote the information on scholarship application and internal selection, and to share the information on overseas exchange and preparation for scholarship application through students' experience sharing by meetings and reports.

Implement a mechanism to support and counsel overseas students in their academic studies

1. Provide support for studying Chinese courses: In order to enhance the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of non-native Chinese speaking students, a Chinese conversation class is offered to teach language skills such as listening comprehension and oral expression in Chinese to enhance students' listening and speaking skills; and a Chinese reading class is offered to teach writing, Chinese characters and reading comprehension through communicative approach.
2. Assist overseas students to enhance the effectiveness of their academic learning:

The school offers a Chinese language program for foreign students and implements systematic grade-level and classroom teaching to strengthen their skills to listen, speak, read, and write in Chinese. The school regularly tracks the status of the courses and encourages the acquisition of basic Chinese proficiency for the students to facilitate their learning and adaptation to life.

3. To provide international study partners to assist overseas students with administrative support and application procedures, such as visas and course selection. After training, international study partners also assist foreign students in handling various matters.

 International Academic and Cultural Exchange

Combine the characteristics of digital technology and internationalization to promote the international exchange of SDGs links:

1. Refine Southeast Asian languages and develop iCAP functionally oriented instructor-led MOOCs courses.

Combined with its international characteristics, the University will continue to develop Vietnamese and Thai and other Southeast Asian functional language courses for MOOCs. At the same time, physical courses will be offered to implement flipped teaching to strengthen learning.

In 2017-2022, a total of 16 teachers participated in the production of digital teaching materials, and a total of 885 teaching materials for 30 courses were produced and made available for students to view on a high-quality audio-visual platform.

With reference to Workforce Development Agency, MOL function-oriented iCAP "Semiconductor Industry Manufacturing - Process Engineer Benchmarks" and experts in the microfilm manufacturing industry jointly developed “Semiconductor Microfilm Manufacturing Process" function-oriented MOOCs course to cultivate students with behavioral indexes and functional connotations of junior microfilm engineers, which were also launched on TaiwanLIFE learning platform in November, 2022.

2.Link international mobile courses/programs with SDGs: link international sister schools with SDGs issues, develop international mobile courses and Asia Virtual Academy, and deepen practical exchanges and interactions under the theme of "Global Studies and Sustainability".

Organize international exchanges and academic cooperation activities with sister schools.

1. Asia Virtual Academy: The University is committed to connecting with the international community through SDGs and has established the Asia Virtual Academy (AVA) as a platform for knowledge and cultural exchanges since 2021, inviting eight schools from six countries to share in the event. Each school took turns inviting experts and scholars to give lectures online, which were open to teachers and students from partner schools and could be viewed on platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, with zero-time lag in real-time exchanges. AVA has held 13 webinars, 3 online forums and 3 conferences since its opening.
2. International Young Sustainability Leaders - Online-SDGs Innovation Competition (IYSL): in 2019-2022, the University organized three IYSL Online-SDGs Innovation Competition to encourage university students to develop their creativity and global citizenship, and to fulfill their social responsibilities; IYSL 2020 was held in a physical manner. Since 2021, the impact of the epidemic has shifted the competition online, attracting more like-minded international partner schools to join the event.

Co-author papers or collect data with other countries to fulfill sustainability goals

Since 2024, the University has conducted an inventory of co-authored papers and publications with other countries in order to collect and consolidate data related to the SDGs. 48 papers were published in 2024, of which 38 were journal papers, 7 conference papers, and 3 monographs. 73 of these publications were related to the SDGs, with SDG9 (industry, innovation, and infrastructure), SDG7 (affordable clean energy), and SDG8 (decent work and economic growth) being the major ones, in order to understand the expertise of our research areas and strengthen our research capacity, as well as to continue to enhance our academic impact through the publications.