4.3.4) Education outreach activities beyond campus
Undertake educational outreach activities (e.g. tailored lectures or demonstrations) beyond campus – in local schools, in the community.

To popularize education and provide lifelong learning opportunities, Tamkang University conducts various education and publicity activities outside the campus. We establish the “Tamkang University Service-Learning Program” to actively offer professional knowledge and service learning courses. The professional courses and activities opened by the centers and departments, Sports Office, Military Training Office, and other units include淡江大學服務學習:
● Ecological and environmental protection educational activities: Wetland protection, mountain cleaning, beach cleaning, green space maintenance, electricity saving propaganda, invoice solicitation, stray animal care, butterfly habitat conservation, life education, and public welfare propaganda.
● Research analysis training: Information and data collecting and analyzing; research reports writing.
● Community building activities: Old community revitalization and residential safety upgrade.
● Learning support: Educational activities with themes such as language, environment, and programs, as well as participation in after-school counseling to assist in remedial teaching at middle schools, primary schools or communities.
● International Culture: Assisting in foreign language reception, translation, tour guiding and other services, to advance international cultural exchanges, as well as record, establish and promote local culture.
● Marketing and promotion: Assisting non-profit organizations in the planning and implementation of promotion and marketing in the real estate industry.
● Care for the disadvantaged: Regular trips to orphanages, nursing homes and other institutions in order to carry out care and companion activities; LOHAS courses providing the elderly with lifelong learning opportunities.

In 2021, the school undertook various types of education outreach activities, including:
● Leading club activities in primary and secondary schools: 8 courses are planned by student clubs and are carried out in primary and secondary schools. A total of 307 students participated and served 353 hours.
● Aboriginal students’ homecoming service team: A total of 70 students returned home to serve, forming 8 service teams, and the number of service recipients was 210 people.
● Generational Co-Learning: Regular trips to community care bases for the purpose of providing lessons and activities regarding 3C product information to the elderly.
● Food and agriculture education: Cooperation with local tea farmers to conduct tea based cultural exchanges and explore the possibility of future development; farming experience activities that combine organic farm promotion and community service learning. 農情食課有機印象淡水
● Local tourism promotion: The team promotes in-depth tourism experience in Tamsui district and organizes cultural and historical viewing and marine leisure activities. Integrating marketing and industry platforms, brand building and new media value-added, combined with A3 (AR, AI, APP), a smart tourism interactive platform was launched, as well as other related activities, including walking tours, speeches, canoe courses, field trips and filming, and interactive task completion based minigame activities. 淡蘭海陸輕旅遊、智慧互動趴趴走
● Learning-oriented urban and rural construction: The team aims to build a learning-oriented urban and rural area in freshwater areas, and organizes activities such as field investigation training, watershed course workshops, online experience courses on sustainable handicrafts for working mothers, and beach cleaning activities.
● Physical education: Conducting physical education lessons such as taekwondo, badminton, water lifesaving license and other courses within middle, primary schools or communities.
● "Urban Tracker - Mapping as a Method" Lecture: Explaining the spirit and method of Mapping, practice local care, and promote sustainable urban and rural areas.
● 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
● 9 lectures on the Higher Education Sprout Project: Content of these lectures includes local historical data research and cross-domain application, placemaking and sustainable development of urban and rural areas.
● 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
● 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