The "8th Taipei Golden Eagle Micro Movie Festival 2024" was organized by the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy (TAISE). Winners were announced at the award ceremony recently held at the SDG Asia Exhibition. Two works from NCYU stood out from the rest. The work "Rural or Not, Chiayi Cares. AI Localization, Let me do +E" won the Silver Award in the "Sustainable Micro Movie Award" category. The work "Urban-Rural Symbiosis, Ecological Companionship, and Rethinking How to Coexist with Nature" won the Bronze Award in the "Sustainable Micro Movie Award" category. Both showcased NCYU's remarkable achievements in fulfilling the social responsibility as a university, and promoting sustainable actions.
Sustainability encompasses a wide range of complex issues that may seem distant but are closely related to our future. To guide the public in exploring the diversity of sustainability, TAISE organized the "8th Taipei Golden Eagle Micro Movie Festival 2024." The event aimed to encourage organizations at all levels to exert social influence in conveying the meaning and achievements of sustainability education using innovative visual imagery. There was a total of 183 entries from across Taiwan in the "8th Taipei Golden Eagle Micro Movie Festival 2024." Among them, two works submitted by NCYU were highly recognized by the judging panel for their outstanding performance. The USR project team "Cross-domain STEAM Bilingual +E: Beautiful Symphony for Chiayi" won the Silver Award in the "Sustainable Micro Movie Award" category with the work "Rural or Not, Chiayi Cares. AI Localization, Let me do +E." Li Yong-Han, a student from the Department of Electrophysics who participated in the project, received the award on behalf of the team. The USR Hub project team "Eco-Healing Mastery" won the Bronze Award in the "Sustainable Micro Movie Award" category for the work "Urban-Rural Symbiosis, Ecological Companionship, Rethinking How to Coexist with Nature." The award was presented to Prof. Yen-Cheng Chiang, Vice Dean of the College of Agriculture, who hosts the project.
Under the leadership of Prof. Su Chiung-Wu from the Department of Electrophysics, the "Cross-domain STEAM Bilingual +E: Beautiful Symphony for Chiayi" USR project at NCYU is a cross-domain collaboration among faculty and students across the Department of Electrophysics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of E-learning Design and Management, and Department of Landscape Architecture. The work "Rural or Not, Chiayi Cares. AI Localization, Let me do +E" serves as a cradle for talent cultivation, with the team introducing bilingual, cross-domain AI courses to rural schools in Chiayi County. Through interdisciplinary practices, the project aims to help enhance thinking about local issues, problem-solving abilities, and cognitive skills among the students in rural areas, so that the seeds of hope planted by NCYU will sprout and thrive.
NCYU's USR Hub project "Eco-Healing Mastery" is supported by faculty and students from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Department of Plant Medicine. "Urban-Rural Symbiosis, Ecological Companionship, and Rethinking How to Coexist with Nature" integrates professional knowledge of "forest health" and "habitat creation" into elementary school curricula and community education. By sharing knowledge about plant diseases and pests commonly seen in our surroundings with community residents, and incorporating a variety of Taiwan's native plants into design, they hope to help transform idle spaces in local elementary schools, optimize the environment to create green habitats, and build awareness of environmental and tree protection among students and residents. Moreover, it is expected to enhance NCYU students' practical application, cross-domain integration, design thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
Since
2017, NCYU has been implementing the Ministry of Education's project
"University Social Responsibility," or USR, and has since received
recognition from various sectors for their outstanding performance over the
years. In the "8th Taipei Golden Eagle Micro Movie Festival 2024,"
they shared stories of social practice, and demonstrated their mission and
achievements in promoting social responsibility.
Photo 1: A group photo of
NCYU's "Eco-Healing Mastery" team, including College of Agriculture
Vice Dean Yen-Cheng Chiang and Department of Landscape Architecture Project
Assistant Prof. Pei Chun Chen, and TAISE Chairman Jian You-Xin (middle)
Photo 2: NCYU's
"Cross-domain STEAM Bilingual +E: Beautiful Symphony for Chiayi"
project won the Silver Award, and Li Yong-Han (right), a student of the
Department of Applied Physics, accepted the award on behalf of the team.
Photo 3: NCYU's
"Eco-Healing Mastery" project won the Bronze Award, which was presented
to Yen-Cheng Chiang (right), Vice Dean of the College of Agriculture, who
represented the team.
Photo 4: A group photo of team members of NCYU's "Cross-domain STEAM Bilingual +E: Beautiful Symphony for Chiayi" project.