In order to encourage Indonesian college students to study abroad, last year Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology established the Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA). The first scholarships will be awarded in September this year to four hundred students of technical and vocational colleges and universities to promote their internationalization.
To echo with the upcoming "International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 ROC (國際版畫雙年展)," the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) invited members of the jury of the exhibition to give keynote speeches on Taiwanese and international printmaking trends at the seminar on June 25. The speakers included Professor Lesley Duxbury from Australia and Professor Lu Yen-ching (呂燕卿), who serves as the Taiwanese representative of the jury.
Taiwan Innotech Expo (TIE) 2022 will take place from October 13 to 15. In order to build Taiwan as the global R&D hub, Ministry of science and Technology promotes” Inbound: Attract overseas talents to come to Taiwan” strategy and hosts Tech Innovation Excellence Award (TIE Award) to facilitate interaction and match-making between startups, research institutes and industry.
The 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies (WCTS) will be held June 27-29 (Pacific Daylight Time, PDT), 2022 at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. The theme this year is “Taiwan in the Making,” looking at Taiwan from a global perspective and connecting with the world through Taiwan Studies.
The New Zealand Commerce and Industry Office (NZCIO) marked Matariki, or Maori New Year, in Taipei Friday with a celebration featuring prayer sessions and Indigenous dancers from Taiwan and New Zealand.
After a successful two-week tour of Taiwan’s capital city dishing out free Filipino food, the Philippines will continue to promote its food products at the Food Taipei international food show this week, attracting the attention of importers.
Taipei is ranked the 10th most livable city in the annual quality of life survey published by U.K.-based fashion magazine Monocle in its July/August issue.
The 2022 Tang Prize winners for sinology and rule of law were announced June 20 and 21, respectively, by Taipei City-based Tang Prize Foundation.
The Taipei Cultural Center in New York works with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) for the first time to launch the “2023-2025 Taiwan Fellowship Program,” which is calling for two performing arts administrators from Taiwan to participate. Submissions will be accepted from now until July 15.
In response to the damage caused by Super Typhoon Rai, locally known as Odette, that hit the central-southern Philippines, specifically the Visayas and Mindanao Islands in December 2021, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) has worked with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), an United States-based international non-governmental organization, to implement the Southern Leyte Typhoon Rai Livelihoods Early Recovery Support project in the Philippines.
