To preserve and promote local culture through action, the Ministry of Education encourages young people to integrate into community practice

Young people inject new blood into local culture! The Ministry of Education encourages young people to form groups to preserve local memories through practical actions and retain precious cultural assets for the local area. For example, the "Yu Society" and "Dabi Youth" have taken root in Toucheng, Yilan and Xiaogang, Kaohsiung respectively. Through "deep-sea fishery knowledge collection" and "relocation memory transfer", they explore local stories that are about to disappear and demonstrate the action power of young people to protect the subjectivity of local culture.

The Youth Development Administration of the Ministry of Education runs the "Youth Community Participation Action 2.0 Changemaker Project" to encourage young people aged 18 to 35 to invest in the preservation and promotion of local culture. This year's project uses "LOCAPPELLA" as the theme and brings together more than a hundred groups of young people in action. The results exhibition will be held at the Songyan Cultural and Creative Park from December 5 to 6, showcasing the results of young people's actions in local areas.

The youth group "Fish Study Society" located in Daxi Fishing Port, Toucheng Town, Yilan County, saw that the local area is rich in deep-sea fish species, but as the fishery faces a gap in inheritance, much fishing knowledge and unique deep-sea fish species are gradually being forgotten. The team went into the fishing port, interviewed old captains and fishmongers, recorded the distribution of fish species and the physical experience accumulated by the fishermen over the years, and preserved this knowledge completely. The team also cooperated with elementary school clubs, leading school children to understand the structure of fish bodies, participate in the specimen preparation process, and finally held a "Deep Sea Fish Festival", inviting fishery professionals and the public to participate, so that the memories of fishermen can be passed on, and the resource-rich Daxi Fishing Port can become a cultural space carrying fishery wisdom and marine ecology.

The youth group "Dabi Youth" in Xiaogang District, Kaohsiung City, whose members are the third generation of Dalinpu youth who are about to move to the village, chose to take the initiative to promote the "Dalinpu Village Relocation-Memory Transfer Project". Young people transformed into "cultural porters" and rode "transfer bicycles" into temples to collect old photos and residents' stories, recording the local wisdom and life history of residents coexisting with industrial pollution. At the same time, they went into community bases and accompanied their elders to sort out every detail of Dalinpu's life. They transformed common memories into the "Wind of Dalinpu" publication, Dalinpu audio map and exhibition, turning their attachment to the land into "visible community identity" and demonstrating the community's resilience in the face of changes in the settlement.

The Youth Department stated that whether it was the "Fish Society" who recorded deep-sea knowledge by the harbor, or the "Big Nose Youth" who left traces for the community on the eve of relocation, the Changemaker youth team used innovative translation methods to let the public see that "local memory preservation" is not only a pursuit of the past, but also the key to strengthening local resilience and gathering collective identity, so that gradually forgotten stories can be transformed into cultural assets for sustainable inheritance.