Enrollment in the Ministry of Education’s Ten Billion Overseas Dream Realization Program for Youth has doubled. (Provided by the Ministry of Education)
Turning the world into a classroom, Taiwanese youth go directly to overseas industries for on-site practice from disassembly and assembly of car engines, aerospace maintenance, and drone technology. The Ministry of Education's "Youth Ten Billion Overseas Dream Fund Program" had a total of 12,028 applications this year, and 3,073 people were admitted, more than doubling the 1,463 last year. The footprint has also expanded from 67 countries last year to 78 countries; some of them went to Canada to study machinery manufacturing and automotive technology, and some went to North America for aerospace practice and to visit the Boeing factory.
The Youth Development Agency of the Ministry of Education held the Yunjiachang District Achievements Exhibition at Huwei University of Science and Technology today (3rd), focusing on "technical and vocational practice" and "local creation", including 4 partner units and 8 projects including the Unmanned Vehicle Society of the Republic of China, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), the Education Department of Chiayi County Government, and Yunlin University of Science and Technology. Youth overseas study locations include Canada, the United States, the Czech Republic and Japan.
Liu Guowei, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Education, said that the Ten Billion Overseas Dream Realization Program for Youth has entered its second year this year. For technical and vocational talents, factories, machines and airlines are the most real learning venues. BC Institute of Technology in Canada has been communicating with Taiwan for more than 15 years. This year, a total of 82 Taiwanese youths completed the training, setting a record high. The unmanned vehicle course is also connected to the industrial development of the Asia Drone AI Innovation Application R&D Center in Chiayi.
The contents of youth overseas internships are quite diverse. Some students from the Department of Bio-Industrial Mechanical and Electrical Engineering completed a mechanical manufacturing internship in Canada and are thinking of bringing their Vancouver bus barrier-free ramp experience back to Taiwan; high school graduates learned about electric vehicle safety by disassembling and assembling car engines; students from the aviation maintenance program and composite materials technicians went to North America to complete aerospace internships and visited Boeing factories, and high school students went to the Czech Republic to learn drone technology.
In addition to technical and vocational practice, there are also young people who bring overseas experience back to their local areas. High school students went to Minamisanriku Town, Japan, to learn about post-earthquake reconstruction. After returning to Taiwan, they held a resident sharing session in Yunlin Community; journalism students visited four places in Japan to reflect on the future of their hometown based on local development experience.
The Ministry of Education stated that this year a new "Dream Realization Assistance Program" was added, using the "training instead of review" method to provide a total of 32 projects for economically disadvantaged, rural, indigenous people and young people with special circumstances to go abroad to realize their dreams. This year’s National General Achievements Exhibition is expected to be held at the North Hall of the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center from October 30 to November 1.
Enrollment in the Ministry of Education’s Ten Billion Overseas Dream Realization Program for Youth has doubled. (Provided by the Ministry of Education)
