The Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in India (TECC) has been working tirelessly despite the pandemic. It has established collaborations with 21 educational institutions all over India. There were over 2,700 Indian students studying in Taiwan in 2019, and Mr. Peters Chen, Director of the Education Division, hopes to encourage more Indian students to come to Taiwan after the pandemic, for further studies and to conduct research.
To break through the restrictions caused by the pandemic, the well-known director Lekal Sumi Cilangasan (勒嘎.舒米) directed a documentary film “We Sing For The Islands (我們在島嶼歌唱),” presenting the precious achievements of the “HOT Island Music Festival (H.O.T.島嶼音樂季),” the cross-cultural and international exchange activity between Taiwan and Okinawa, and the profound friendship established between musicians, craftsmen and communities.
ITRI has won three R&D 100 Awards this year with its Software-defined Augmented Robot Joint (SARJ), 3D Printing Biomimetic Materials and Structures for Tissue Integration (BioMS-Ti), and Ubiquitous Water Wand (UWAW). This marks the 14th consecutive year that ITRI has received the honor of R&D 100 Awards. Other winners this year include world-leading research organizations such as MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The “2021 Fun Sports in Taiwan Exchange and Sharing Program” was held by the Sports Administration, Ministry of Education on October 12th in Taichung. Held both physically and online, it displayed the diverse faces of Taiwan-brand sports events.
Over a third of last year’s 20,000 takers of the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language were from Vietnam. That number came from an online study camp for Mandarin teachers organized by the Taiwanese representative office in Vietnam.
In line with the Executive Yuan’s “Salute to the Seas (向海致敬)” policy, the National Center for Traditional Arts (NCFTA) will launch the 19th edition of the Asian-Pacific Traditional Arts Festival at the Yilan Park of NCFTA from Nov. 20 to 26 and Nov. 26 to 28.
Five Taiwan-produced films are set to be screened Oct. 21-31 as part of the 2021 London East Asia Film Festival, according to the Ministry of Culture Oct. 19.
Taiwanese nonprofit organization One-Forty, which is devoted to migrant workers’ rights, won a Good Design Gold Award Wednesday for its education kit, which was praised for its contribution to facilitating networking among migrant workers as well as with Taiwanese.
In light of the pandemic, the 2021 Taiwan International Human Rights Film Festival (臺灣國際人權影展), organized by the National Human Rights Museum (NHRM), will be held both online and in physical venues from Oct. 15 to Nov. 30.
The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) will be hosting the 8th Asian Art Biennial titled “Phantasmapolis (未至之城)” from Oct. 30 to March 6, in hopes of re-evaluating Asia’s past and present through sci-fi perspectives to re-examine topics about Asian cities, technologies, conflicts, gender and fantasies of the future.
