17.4.3)Education for SDGs in the wider community

1. Through USR projects
● The USR project teams organize events and activities integrated with classroom teaching, expanding the practice field to local communities and Northern Taiwan, so that the students can gain deeper awareness about the issues in community development and the resources needed, searching for solutions and applications accordingly. Relative activities include:
● Food and agriculture education：In partnership with local tea farmers, the USR team organizes activities of tea culture sharing and organic tea farming experiences to help promote local tea culture and sustainable agriculture. 農情食課有機印象淡水
● Sea and land light tourism: To promote tourism in Northern Taiwan, the USR team Organizes activities such as day tour guides, lectures, canoe lessons, field trips, filming, and interactive games that are related to cultural and historical education and marine leisure, integrated with marketing and industrial platforms, brand building and value-added new media including smart tourism interactive platform combined with A3 (AR, AI, APP). 淡蘭海陸輕旅遊、智慧互動趴趴走
● Learning-oriented urban and rural construction: The USR team organizes outreach educational activities such as field-study training, watershed course workshops, beach cleaning, and artisan mom crafts online showcase to enhance collaboration in local communities.

2. Through multimedia:
The Department of Mass Communications produces and broadcasts educational and cultural programs on Tamkang TV's official website, YouTube channel, and through the Voice of Tamkang Radio (FM88.7) to provide various channels of information for the general public. 淡江電視台淡江之聲

3. Through educational activity tour:
The Science Education Center and the Department of Chemistry jointly promote the popular science education activity "Chemistry On the Go", traveling to elementary and middle schools in remote rural areas across Taiwan to demonstrate chemistry experiments for students, hoping to inspire students in the ways of science. The class will first allow the students to understand the goals and methods of the activity, then let the students participate in the preparation of the activity by themselves, giving them the freedom of choosing the number of times they wish to participate in the activity, and finally returning to school to reflect on their learning. In 2021, a total of 42 chemical tourism fun activities have been held across Taiwan, serving nearly 10,000 teachers and students. 化學遊樂趣

4. Through service-learning program:
● The voluntary students' group from the Department of Economics provides several sustainable economic education in 2021 to help the disadvantaged from remote villages find a way out of poverty.
● The Department of Accounting has a course titled “Tax filing consultancy and service” which takes students to assist taxpayers in tax filing at local revenue agencies. Another course titled “Social Service” encourages students to provide online tuition for children from primary schools and disadvantaged families of remote villages at the seashore in Northern Taiwan.
● The Department of Education and Future Design opens service-learning courses leading students to collaborate with NGOs and conceive methods and services for adult learning by adapting the education technology profession and the theory of adult learning they have learned from class.

5. Through lectures and activities:
● The Center of General Education and Core Curriculum and the library jointly held the “Sexuality Equality” campaign and provided six lectures and activities on gender equality in March 2021.
● The TEDxTKU invited the Executive Director of Taiwan Labor and Social Policy Research to give a keynote speech titled “The Dilemma and The Way-outs for Youth in Poverty.”