4.3.2) Public events (lifelong learning)
Host events at university that are open to the general public.

To promote basic education and lifelong learning, and to popularize educational opportunities, Tamkang University often holds lectures, workshops, or community educational courses open to the public. More than 200 public lectures and activities have been held in 2021, including lectures and seminars organized by various departments, as well as workshops and educational courses organized by various administrative units, including:

1. Activities on programmed basis
● University Social Responsibility Program: TKU actively practices university social responsibility and promotes several USR programs combining teaching, curriculum, and community building, covering topics such as food and agriculture education, regional tourism, and urban and rural construction. Activities in 2021 include cooperation with local tea farmers to conduct tea cultural exchanges; farm experience activities combining organic farm promotion and community service learning; promotion of in-depth tourism experience in freshwater areas, holding cultural and historical viewing and marine leisure activities, including day-reading guided tours. tours, lectures, canoeing courses, field trips, filming, interactive games, and breakthrough activities; to build the Tamsui District as a learning-oriented urban and rural area, field research training, watershed course workshops, online experience courses on sustainable handcraft for working mothers, as well as activities such as beach cleaning. 淡江大學USR計畫
● Higher Education Sprout Project: Tamkang University echoes the Higher Education Sprout Project promoted by the Ministry of Education to set our medium and long-term development goals following four indicators: implement teaching innovation and improve teaching quality, develop school characteristics, improve the publicity of higher education, and fulfill the social responsibility of the university. We hold many lectures, workshops, or community education courses yearly, including local historical data research and cross-domain application, to promote local creation and sustainable urban and rural areas. 淡江大學高等深耕教育
● Music Festival: The General Studies and Core Curriculum Center organizes music season activities every year, open to the school members and the general public to participate. 淡江大學音樂季
● Art Appreciation: The General Education and Core Curriculum Center holds many art appreciation lectures or workshops every year. Activities held in 2021 includes "Ink Painting and Calligraphy Workshop", "Creative Illustration Workshop", "Japanese Tea Ceremony Culture Workshop", " Dance and Natural Environment Improvisation Workshop", "Digital Music Workshop", and "Self-Awareness Theatre Body Workshop". All the activities are open to outsiders to participate.
● Graduation project production: Exhibitions or performances of the graduation project production achievement of each department are held every year and open to the public to visit and share the learning results.
● Voice of Tamkang Radio: The Department of Mass Communications produces and broadcasts educational and cultural programs every semester, which are broadcast on Voice of Tamkang FM88.7 and the official website. 淡江之聲廣播電台
● Tamkang TV: The Department of Mass Communications produces and broadcasts educational and cultural programs every semester, which are broadcast on Tamkang TV's official website and YouTube channel.
● MOS Certification Training and Examination: TKU is authorized by Microsoft to offer MOS professional-level license courses and conduct license examinations every year to provide students and people outside the school with opportunities for further study. MOS認證研習
● Chinese Digital Teaching Workshop: Introducing hybrid teaching methods, hardware and software equipment, to improve a teachers' teaching mobility, creating a highly interactive classroom. A total of 3 classes were held in 2021, serving 98 teachers. 2021年華文教師線上遠距研習
● TKU Mathematics Day: The "TKU Mathematics Day" is held every March, open to high school students across the country, with an average of about 50 participants each year. 2021淡江大學數學日
● Department of Physics Open Day: The Department of Physics has regularly held the "Department of Physics Open Day" every year since 2015, which is open to high school students for participation. Through lectures, laboratory visits, and hands-on experiments, high school students can be exposed to physics in a variety of ways. More than 500 high school students participated in the first six years. The 2021 event, however, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021淡江大學物理系開放日
● Chemistry tour activity: 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
● Digital e-pen lecture: The computer writing system developed by the University's Calligraphy Research Office, the Distance Learning Development Team and the Department of Information Engineering, combining traditional Chinese calligraphy and computer systems, is conducive to cultural inheritance and promotion.
● Tamsui Formosa International Poetry Festival: The international poetry festival is held in Tamsui every year. In September 2021, the festival was organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of Tamkang University. Through the MRT Poetry Exhibition, the Internet Poetry Exhibition, and the one-day chanting poetry event, we invited villagers and visitors of Tamsui to discover the beauty and cultural characteristics of Tamsui. 淡水福爾摩莎國際詩歌節
● Beaujolais Night: Once a year, teachers from the French Department will introduce the origin of Beaujolais Nouveau and related red wine knowledge, and invite members of the Tamsui Fatima Catholic Church, retirees from Runfu Community, other Tamsui villagers, and the Homecoming Department to get to know the French wine culture in depth together.
● Grape Swallowing New Year's Eve Celebration: Once a year, the Spanish Department invites cultural and arts worker and local residents to celebrate New Year's Eve together.

2. One-time event
● Water Resources Forum: On July 29, 2021, the "SIG Water Resources Forum" was held to discuss sustainable issues in the Tamsui area. It joined forces with several universities, primary and secondary schools, and village offices in the Tamsui area, as well as the Cambodian NGO ECC School. With the theme being water resources, it discusses four topics: coastal pollution, between mountains and seas, water cycle, and international field. Nine lectures were arranged to share experience and report on results. 2021SIG水資源論壇
● Popular science education tour: The Science Education Center cooperated with CSRC (International CSRC Investment Holdings Co., Ltd.) on April 10, 2021, and held a green economy-related educational activity to promote knowledge on carbon black at the Maker Faire organized by Parenting Magazine. 全台巡迴化學普及教育
● Food safety education activities: On November 5, 2021, the Science Education Center cooperated with the New Taipei City Education Bureau to hold a food safety educational activity. This activity shall extend to 2022, leading a total of 300 teachers and students from various regions of New Taipei City to conduct food safety related analysis experiments. 察「鹽」觀色食安教育
● Showcasing event for the winners of the Innovation Creativity and Robot Creativity Competition: The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering held the event to share the works of the winners in 2021 and is open to outsiders for participation.
● Water patrol tasks and local ecological observation: The Department of Economics held a water patrol on ancient pathways on December 10, 2021 and conducted water patrol tasks regarding local water resources, assisting local water patrol team members.
● Future Thinking Tamsui High School Camp: The Department of Education and Futures Design organized the camp in February 2010. High school students from all over the country were invited to participate. In addition to getting to know Tamsui, it also focused on thinking and planning for the future. 未來思考 玩轉淡水