17.2.5) Collaboration with NGOs for SDGs
Collaborate with NGOs to tackle the SDGs through: student volunteering programmes, research programmes, or development of educational resources.

1. Student volunteering programs
Through the practice of the “Tamkang University Service-Learning Program”, TKU collaborates with local communities and NGOs to tackle the SDGs issues. Selected teams of the service-learning program were subsidized to encourage students to initiate volunteering programs and participated in community service and placemaking.
● Summer and winter vacation voluntary service teams: Students of volunteering service groups will visit remote towns and the countryside to provide tuition and extracurricular activities for the children during the winter and summer vacations.
● Cambodia service-learning team: Led by teachers from the Department of Economics, the volunteering team of students visits Cambodia during winter and summer vacation to provide educational activities such as language teaching, computer literacy, environmental education, and field studies in partnership with the local NGO ECC School. The village where ECC school is located is close to the World Heritage Angkor Wat. It is a poor village where the local children generally look forward to becoming tour guides with a good income in the future. Therefore, English and computer skills are crucial to develop tourism and increase their income. 經探號柬埔寨志工服務
● Seashore primary school project: The volunteering group of students from the Department of Accounting collaborates with organizations such as the Fund for Children and Families to provide online tuition for children from primary schools and disadvantaged families of remote villages at the seashore. 濱海小學堂計畫
● Other volunteering programs: Students from the Department of Mass Communication assists local NGOs in preparing creative marketing proposal; students from the Department of Global Politics and Economics assists human rights organizations in advocating issues on human rights; the Department of International Tourism Management assists local communities in promoting local features activities; the Department of Educational Technology assists local NGOs in website establishment and digital material production.

2. Research programs
● The team from the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering has been undertaking a project with subsidy from the Ministry of Education to develop the R & D of high-value ceramic filter membranes made from waste incineration ashes. This research helps in enhancing industrial wastewater treatment technology and water pollution control. 垃圾焚化飛灰製成高價值陶瓷濾膜」技術
● Eco-friendly Treatment for agricultural waste and kitchen waste: Monster Environmental Co. Ltd, one of the many startups supported by the Champion Incubator Center of TKU, developed a BSF-Bio System that helps to turn food waste into a resource. The team has recently been invited to participate in the 2022 SDGs International Forum held by the CommonWealth Magazine to present their achievement. 巨獸綠色科技

3. Development of educational resources
● Tamsui Wiki: The teachers and students from the Department of Information and Library Science set up a public digital collaboratively-editing online website, Tamsui Wiki, to introduce and record the culture and humanity in Tamsui. Since 2021, the team has extended the field of practice to Malaysia and set up the Malaysian Chinese Wiki. From September 2013 to December 2021, the cumulative total number of page views has reached more than 2.83 million times. There are more than 1.13 million cumulative users in 149 countries or regions around the world. 淡水維基館
● The Environmental Protection Documentaries Project: This project adapted the concept of “participatory documentary” and “narrative communication”, integrating with courses in video and TV program production, to record the stories of people and organizations that have greatly impacted environmental protection in Tamsui. Topics of the documentaries cover the eco system, pollution control, resource recycling, and environmental protection in the community. 淡水環保志
● Watershed course co-planning: Since 2019, TKU has been continuously promoting a “Learning-oriented urban and rural construction” project, which through the collaboration of Tamkang University, primary and secondary schools, and local culture works, jointly develop courses in environmental protection. There are 3 modules, 4 lesson plans, and a research paper published in 2021. 流域課程