On August 2, 2022, the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) announced its cooperation with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) to establish a mercury wet deposition monitoring station at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory using a Taiwan-made instrument.
In 2022, HYPE Global Virtual Accelerator Taiwan (HYPE GVA Taiwan), executed by the sports Administration Ministry of Education and entrusted to the National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, collaborated with APEC Sport Policy Network. On July 20, 2022, “2022 ASPN x HYPE GVA Taiwan Demo Day” was held in Taipei 101.
Co-hosted by the Training Institute, Ministry of Finance (MOFTI) and Customs Administration, the 2022 International Customs Workshop was held on July 25-26, 2022. Customs experts and officers shared their experiences about how they develop and apply technologies on border control in this virtual workshop.
With the support of the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) under the Minister of Economic Affairs, ITRI held the 2022 International Workshop on Trustworthy AI online on August 2. Over 500 experts gathered at the first-ever conference in Taiwan on this theme to discuss topics such as AI risk management and trustworthy AI systems.
The 45th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF45) will take place from Aug. 3 through 13. Three films by Taiwanese directors as well as two US-Taiwan co-productions have been selected. In addition, Taiwanese American film editor Jean Tsien (錢孝貞) was announced as the recipient of AAIFF45's Media Award.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand has joined hands with the Chinese Cultural and Educational Innovation Association and Thailand’s Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (SSRU) to launch the “Taiwan Eco-Island Paper Art Exchange Exhibition (台灣生態島－台灣紙藝交流展).”
Three Taiwanese artists Huang Hsin-chien (黃心健), Hsu Chia-wei (許家維), and Yu Cheng-ta (余政達) have been selected to join the Aichi Triennale (愛知三年展), one of the largest international art festivals in Japan, to showcase the artistic energy of Taiwan on the international stage.
A Taiwanese Indigenous music video “kemay calun (return from the wild),” performed by an indigenous band from the Puyuma tribe in Taitung and produced by the Alian Culture Creative Workshop (阿藜漾文創工作室), has won several international awards.
Organized by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Malaysia and curated by INXO Arts and Culture Foundation, the 55th Tea Philo (哲學茶席) calls attention to the Lightbox Photo Library (攝影圖書室), Taiwan’s first non-profit photo library, inviting the founder Tsao Liang-Pin (曹良賓) to give an online talk on the topic of “Co-Creating an Open Photography Culture: The Mission and Purpose of Lightbox Photo Library (共創開放平權的攝影文化—Lightbox 攝影圖書室的工作與目標)” on July 30.
The Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand organized a Thailand Industry 4.0 forum for alumni of universities in Taiwan to share their experiences of starting up a business in Thailand. It was held on June 19, 2022 at the Evergreen hotel in Bangkok and attended by 63 alumni from 21 universities and the Association of Taiwan Alumni (Thailand).
