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Does your university as a body collaborate with NGOs to tackle the SDGs through: 
 
In order to continuously promote sustainable development goals, our university actively cooperates with NGOs and has achieved outstanding results in many goals. For example, we work with NGOs to achieve sustainable development goals in the area of culture preservation by means of student volunteering and research programmes, and development of educational resources.
 
 
In order to continuously promote sustainable development goals, our university actively cooperates with NGOs and has achieved outstanding results in many goals. For example, we work with NGOs to achieve sustainable development goals in the area of culture preservation by means of student volunteering and research programmes, and development of educational resources.
Helping to improve the quality of science education in primary and secondary schools in the central region
In recent years, the Science Education Centre of our university collaborated with the K-12 Education Administration, Ministry of Education to develop white papers on science education in primary and secondary schools. The collaboration also works towards strengthening the research, promotion, study, and guidance of science education in primary and secondary schools and has undertaken initiatives related to the advice and promotion of science education in the central region. In addition, the Changhua Office of Yuan T. Lee Foundation Science Education for All was established in the Jin-De Campus of our university. A professor from the Department of Physics serves as the director of the office. Summer and winter science camps are held every year during the summer and winter vacations respectively. In addition to ordinary students, students with vision and hearing impairments were also included, and delivery of science education was facilitated to their homes during the semester (a semester comprises about 16 weeks of classes). This initiative provided more science learning resources for students in the central region, and fulfilled the responsibilities of a national university in its joint efforts to promote national science education.
Continuously promoting environmental education theories and practice
In order to promote the development of academic and practical work in environmental education, our university has set up an ‘Environmental Education Centre’. In December 2016, the Centre gained the approval of the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan as an environmental education certification body. The centre has a cross-disciplinary and cross-school faculty team. Its main task is to implement relevant plans of the Environmental Protection Administration, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology (such as Solenopsis Invicta and Forcipomyia Taiwana control, wetland ecological conservation, biodiversity education, and low-carbon green energy). It also runs 33-hour seminars and 120-hour training courses to cultivate aptitude in environmental resources and ecology conservation. In addition, the centre also guides and assists high-quality development of local environmental protection communities, so as to fulfil the University’s social responsibilities; guides and assists local sites to pass certifications of environmental education institutions; and expands industry-university cooperation to sustain environmental resources.
Long-term commitment to fulfilling the physical and mental potential in groups with physical and mental disabilities and gifted groups
The Special Education Centre of our university provides special education consultation and guidance services for students and faculty members of our university, as well as county and city governments, special education schools (classes), and social welfare institutions in the region.
Improving the quality of life of people with physical and mental disabilities in the central region with efficient and professional treatment services
The Behavioural Guidance Research and Development Centre of our university applies the rationales and principles of behaviour analysis to conduct one-to-one intensive treatment to promote all-round effective interventions to analyse, assess, treat, and rehabilitate people with physical and mental disabilities. It also provides training for professionals in domestic institutions and spreads knowledge about treatment to the Changhua community, thereby fulfilling its social responsibilities as a university. The centre’s services cater to people holding household registrations in the Changhua region who possess a physical and mental disability handbook or a physical and mental disability certificate. Based on long-term assessment, these people require behavioural guidance for mental retardation or autism that seriously influences their ability to adapt to life. The centre also placed an active bid for the ‘Physical and Mental Disability Behaviour Guidance Service Plan’ of the Changhua County Government.
Establishing a career reconstruction service base for people with physical and mental disabilities in the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou region
In order to integrate relevant service resources for career reconstruction in the central region, train special personnel, establish a network of professional guidance service resources for career reconstruction, and improve the effectiveness and service quality of professional services related to career reconstruction, the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou Branch of the Workforce Development Agency entrusted our university to establish the ‘Career Reconstruction Service Resource Centre for the Physically- and Mentally-Disabled in the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou region’. By linking the administrative resources in the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou region, the centre develops local service features and promotes the integration of career reconstruction resources in the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou region to effectively help local governments solve the problems and dilemmas of career reconstruction services for the physically and mentally disabled.
Promoting the development of counselling expertise and providing mental health services in the central region
In order to provide services related to mental health for people in the central region, our university established the ‘Community Mental Counselling and Potential Development Centre’ in 2004 by integrating the professional resources of the Department of Guidance and Counselling. In recent years, we have held mental health programmes for the Changhua County Fire Bureau, National Yuanlin Home-Economics and Commercial Vocational Senior High School, and Nursing Department of Changhua Christian Hospital, and implemented the Honorary Probation Officers Training programme of Taiwan Changhua District Prosecutors Office. Various workshops and academic seminars were also held to provide practical training for professional mental counsellors and to provide professional resources to enable professional workers in the central region to continue to grow and develop.
Long-term recording of audio textbooks to protect the right of learning of visually impaired people 
For the purpose of widening the knowledge fields of visually impaired people, our university has undertaken a special programme for the Ministry of Education since 1989. The university records audio textbooks in the humanities and social sciences for visually-impaired students in junior high schools and primary schools, and for students with mental and physical disabilities in colleges and universities. This helps them adapt to their studies, increases supplementary teaching materials to enable students with physical and mental disabilities to learn synchronously with their peers, improves the learning outcomes of students with physical and mental disabilities at all stages of education, and achieves the teaching goal of barrier-free education for students with special education needs.
Setting up the aboriginal resource centre to protect the right of aboriginal students to education
As of October 2017, our university has 108 aboriginal students. In October 2017, the Aboriginal Student Resource Centre was set up to provide more systematic guidance for aboriginal students’ studies, residence, and employment and ensure equal opportunity to education.
Implementing higher education policies and plans, fulfilling social responsibilities, and missions of our university
In cooperation with national education policies, the university has been entrusted by the Ministry of Education or other government agencies to implement, or assist in implementation of, relevant plans. In future, we will continue to combine resources from the industry, government, academia, and research to enhance our interaction and dialogue with the public, community, or society, to fulfil our social responsibilities as a university.