Join hands with Southeast Asia to build a new Taiwan dream

Migrant workers learning. Invest in the future. Dreaming in Taiwan.

In Taiwan, hundreds of thousands migrant workers enter the labor market every year, making up for Taiwan’s economic development and long-term care manpower gap. In addition, as of August 2020, the number of foreign residents who have acquired nationality has exceeded 500,000. These foreign migrant workers, mainly from Southeast Asian countries, have become an important part of Taiwan. Regardless of race, age, language, belief, or culture, pursuing one's own ideals and having a better future are universal values and human needs and desires. These long-term migrant workers and new immigrants who have lived in Taiwan, have left their hometown. If help them to learn, accumulate future employability, improve life adaptation, and create a happy experience of life in a foreign country, I believe it will be positively helpful to Taiwan’s society, family, industry, community development, and international image.

In Taiwan, they can return to school and embrace their dreams

Because of family factors, some migrant workers have to give up their dreams of studying and have to work hard in Taiwan to earn their lives. However, when they came to Kao Yuan University  they took a one-day set of learning courses. In the morning, they had a Chinese class. In the afternoon, they could learn how to taste coffee, to make handmade soap, to have tea ceremony experience and so many hand-made learning experiences. In addition, in fitness training course, they learn how to improve their health and physical fitness. This training course combining the school’s faculty and equipment, with the assistance of the students, the eight weeks of learning was full of laughter and memories.

Encourage migrant workers to write their own life stories

In order to encourage migrant workers to write their own profound life stories in Taiwan, the first Kao Yuan university cup of Literature awards for migrant workers was held. With the assistance of teachers and students from the General Education Center, and external reviewers were invited, professional teachers and students on campus assisting in the translation, so that these stories can be seen by the social community. It helps us to have a deeper understanding of these migrant workers, who have contributed to Taiwan so much.

Leisure sports competition for foreign students on campus

This activity is aimed at foreign students inside the school. Through the school’s high-quality leisure sports facilities and the professional faculty team of the Department of Training, various sports activities are carried out. The events are divided into boccia, badminton, 7-a-side football, and 3-on-3 for basketball and fitness courses. Students from Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines and other nationalities participate in the activities. Through the study and experience of sports without borders, the social responsibility of multicultural integration, mutual love and common prosperity is achieved.

Off-campus sports competitions-7-a-side football, 6-a-side volleyball

On September 6th, our school held a national foreign student sports competition. More than 200 foreign students from 10 universities participated in the competition. The competition was divided into 6-a-side volleyball matches with 9 teams participating, and 7-a-side football matches with 10 teams participating. After more than 30 fierce competitions a day, it ended smoothly in an atmosphere of competition and joy. In the 6-a-side volleyball match, Jianxing University of Science and Technology, Kaoyuan University of Science and Technology, and Jianan Pharmaceutical University won the top three places. In the 7-a-side football match, Jianan University of Medicine, Kaoyuan University of Science and Technology, and Jianxing University won the top three.

KYU Learning Intra-campus Fitness Course Intervention

During 10/7-11/15, our school will implement the "Sports Intervention Course for Foreign Students and Local Students" at the fitness workshop of Kaoyuan University every Sunday at 3-5 pm. Through the spirit of sports without borders, it integrates the learning of local and international students. The content of the activity is through exercise lectures, physical fitness and exercise prescription consultation for 2 hours, physical fitness testing for 2 hours, exercise curriculum intervention for 8 hours, assisting foreign students and local students in school to improve their health and physical fitness to cultivate future workplace competitiveness. Teaching content: 6 weeks of sports intervention courses, 2 hours per week, including health lectures, fitness testing and consultation, flexibility/stretching exercises/dynamic stretching, static stretching, cardiopulmonary fitness/aerobic exercise/boxing aerobic, muscle Fitness/bare-hand resistance training and functional aerobics.



Let everyone know the beauty of Gangshan 

The Department of Tourism Management of Kao Yuan University implements the 109 academic year of the Ministry of Education's USR Project. We target  local migrant workers and international students, and hope that we can help to promote local travel in Gangshan District. In this project, we train international students to learn how to conduct a native-speaking guide, and how to coordinate and integrate off-campus visits by regional migrant workers and international students. We have planned three local travel routes, including museum visits (Natural History Education Museum/Shadow Play Museum/Aviation Education Exhibition Hall/ Taiwan Soya-mixed meat Museum) and natural landscape visits (The Eye of Gangsan / Agongdian Forest Park / Gangsan Ecological Park), and a local cultural tour (Gangsan Old Street/Shoutian Temple/Military Village Culture). Most of the international migrant workers and international students live in dormitories besides class and work. Through the experience of these trips, they can ride electric bikes and know more about some leisure and leisure attractions. They can also learn more about the humanities, history and natural culture of Taiwan.

Learning in the Living Museum

One of the important skills learned by the Department of Tourism is the practical tour guide. Through the life museum connected by the trips in the area, foreign students are trained to deeply understand the local historical, geographical and cultural background and knowledge of the Gangsan area and make full use of it. The learning field of life museum nurtures the essence of tourism education.

The future social trend is the integration of multiple cultures

Kao Yaun University invests teachers and students in the Department of Tourism Management to plan local cultural experience trips in the Gangsan area so that foreign migrant workers and international students can better understand the local culture, and promote community development resources and tourism value through local experience trips. To discover and reshape the core value of sustainable management of the community make the local residents and the foreigners can unite the local feelings of the local countryside, and make the people and the land have a deeper connection.