international cooperation projects implemented by the
TaiwanICDF, as well as those implemented by other
organizations.
The distribution of workshops held during 2012 by
sector and number of participants was as follows: health
care, one class of 16 participants (4%); the environment,
one class of 19 participants (4%); social development,
two classes for a total of 55 participants (9%); ICT, two
classes for a total of 21 participants (9%); trade and
economics, seven classes for a total of 296 participants
(31%); agriculture and aquaculture, eight classes for a
total of 174 participants (35%); human capital/TVET, one
class of 24 participants (4%); and one other class of 28
participants (4%).
In the future, our workshops will be planned
according to the training needs and objectives of our
target beneficiaries. They will be classified by subject
matter, form and beneficiary. The program will mainly
comprise project-based workshops designed to promote
and upgrade capacity in our bilateral cooperation projects.
These will be supplemented by policy-based workshops
designed to introduce and share Taiwan’s experiences
and comparative advantages. Content will be planned
yearly and we will also make use of seminars and short-,
medium- and long-term training placements. We will invite
participants from a wider range of backgrounds to take
part in our training. This will mean, for example, inviting
officials working at a policy-making level to exchange
experiences in seminars and short-term workshops,
offering training to seed trainers who can strengthen
project promotion and disseminate knowledge, offering
series of graded short-, medium- and long-term workshops
over a longer period to assist partner countries to tackle
specific technical issues, and inviting technicians to take
part in medium-term workshops and placements so that
the training we provide is more pragmatic and timely and
better focused on beneficiaries and content. All of these
measures will help to achieve the objectives of building
capacity and managing projects sustainably.
International Higher Education
Scholarship Program
The TaiwanICDF’s International Higher Education
Scholarship Program was initiated in 1998 to support the
increasing demand for highly skilled human resources in
our partner countries. As part of the program, students
from partner countries receive a full scholarship to study
in Taiwan. All courses are taught in English.
The program was originally restricted to a smaller
number of graduate and postgraduate programs, but
was expanded considerably in 2006 when undergraduate
courses were offered for the first time. The range of
subjects on offer continues to increase each year. As
of the end of 2012, the TaiwanICDF was cooperating
with 18 universities to offer 28 undergraduate, graduate
and postgraduate degree programs covering a range of
academic disciplines such as agriculture, social sciences
and humanities, business administration, public health
and medicine, and engineering. At this time, 359 students
from 31 countries were studying in Taiwan, of whom 161
had been newly enrolled at the start of the academic
year in September. The number of students enrolled by
subject was as follows: agriculture, 67 students (19%);
engineering, 105 students (29%); business administration,
106 students (30%); social sciences and the humanities,
30 students (8%); and public health and medicine, 51
students (14%).
Since the program was established, 953 students
have received scholarships, comprising 339 recipients
of TaiwanICDF-funded scholarships, 506 recipients
under the Republic of China (Taiwan)-Central American
Economic Development Fund and 108 recipients of the
MOFA-sponsored Taiwan Scholarship.
As the program continues, we will update operations
according to the state of the national education systems
in the majority of our partner countries, as well as their
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35% Agriculture and Aquaculture
31% Trade and Economics
9% ICT
9% Social Development
4% Environment
4% Medicine
4% Other
4% Human Capital/ TVET
30% Business Administration
29% Engineering
19% Agriculture
14% Public Health and Medicine
8% Social Sciences and the Humanities
Figure 6 Workshops by Sector (2012)
Figure 7 Students Enrolled in the International
Higher Education Scholarship Program by
Subject (2012)
