National Chiayi University (NCYU), through a subsidy from the Higher Education SPROUT Project, has organized the Self-​directed Learning Achievement Exhibition Week (called initially Specialty Week) Joint Publicity Event. The NCYU hopes that ​successively promoting events exhibiting self-directed learning achievements in different fields can build a platform and a ​site for self-directed learning and ultimately achieve the objective of interdisciplinary, integrated, and lifelong learning.

Horticulture Week

Organized by the Department of ​Horticulture, the Department ​conducted diverse activities based ​on the theme of rainforest ecology.

Mountaineering Week

Students from the Cloud Mountaineering ​Club organized them. Students creatively ​exhibited mountaineering culture.

Animal Science Week

The event was organized by the Department of ​Animal Science, which fully realized the concept of ​“farm to table” by integrating Department of Animal ​Science-related knowledge into static posters, ramp-​up games, products created by students during their ​internships, and exhibits of actual animals.

A joyful group photo after the road race

The NCYU Higher Education Sprout Project encourages professors ​to lead students in undertaking international study. From March 29 ​to April 4, 2024, NCYU’s Department of Physical Education ​professors traveled to South Korea to meet with the Daegu Sports ​Association for the Disabled.

Students expressed that they constantly had opportunities to learn throughout the international visit. Additionally, they ​thanked the NCYU for granting a subsidy, allowing them to further their professional development, promote cross-​cultural understanding, and establish friendships.

The NCYU Higher, Education Sprout Program, continuously holds community ​service and regional revitalization events to guide students in service. During ​the Creative Thinking Edutainment Camp event, NCYU students honed their ​skills at guided thinking activities. They felt the delight of guiding NCYU children ​in open-minded thinking and witnessed the power of the NCYU children’s ​creative thinking.

NCYU students lead elementary NCYU children ​in group activities

NCYU students who participated in ​the Creative Thinking Edutainment ​Camp expressed that they reaped ​significant benefits. The whole event ​itinerary received a satisfaction score ​of 86.7%. The NCYU children who ​participated also successively ​expressed their love for the event.

NCYU students lead elementary NCYU ​children in small group activities

To promote the 2nd Phase of the Higher Education Sprout Project, NCYU has held over 270 events to date. This series of ​events has garnered widespread participation, attracting more than 23,000 attendees from inside and outside the ​NCYU. NCYU has conducted various classes, lectures, and workshops to strengthen interaction between students and ​the community, which has had an outstanding positive effect on cultivating students’ key competencies and deepening ​social engagement, aligning with various United Nations SDGs and the six critical competencies for students.

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Self-directed learning accounts for 29.38% of all activities

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Senior high school students visit NCYU

To align with the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education Sprout Project and the ​National Science and Technology Council’s Popular Science Project, enhance ​students’ understanding of advanced science and technology, and cultivate talents ​needed in related industries, NCYU organized a Semiconductor Research Camp for ​the Chiayi County Yung Ching Senior High School. NCYU professors and students ​led the Senior High School students in conducting experiments and familiarizing ​themselves with relevant instruments and equipment.

In 2024, NCYU continuously promoted SPROUT financial aid, guidance, and care to enhance student’s ​critical abilities for self-directed learning.

Informational meetings were held on three ​campuses to help students quickly understand ​how to apply for scholarships and financial aid. ​For implementation measures, please see the ​website(https://sites.google.com/view/ncyuhes​pss/).

Three campuses invited experts in ​industry, government, and academia ​to promote correct and practical ​disaster prevention and evacuation ​concepts.

The lecturer and students exchange ​ideas and play quiz games for prizes.

NCYU lectured on Civic Competency: ​Protecting Intellectual Property ​Rights to establish proper concepts ​regarding intellectual property rights ​and improve students’ legal ​competencies.

The scholarship for disadvantaged students ​and Financial Aid Informational Meetings

Rental Housing Safety Lecture