President's Statement

Inherited from the sustainable development research context in the 1990s, in 2023, National Central University chose "Sustainability - Leading the Way, Keep Going!" as the theme of its academic affairs, and continues to cultivate the sustainability literacy and skills of faculty, staff and students in administrative, teaching, research, social practice, public and private sector cooperation, and jointly fulfill the social responsibility of citizens in the local community.

In order to fully utilize and integrate interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in campus and society, and to concretely implement the SDGs on campus and local community, NCU uses "Objectives and Key Results" to coordinate the USR practices on and off campus, gradually develop various social innovation and retrieve sustainable outcomes from cross-border collaboration.

Meanwhile, NCU also established Social Responsibility Promotion Committee and Taoyuan USR Alliance to organize training and mentoring programs for students, faculty and staff from a school-wide perspective. It also promotes cross-school curriculum and field investigations, and continuously acts as social practice think tank for Taoyuan City government.

This website aims to promote SDGs and decarbonization as NCU’s DNA, conveying NCU's capacity for interdisciplinary collaboration on sustainability, and concretely presenting the progress of student cultivation, ESG empowerment on enterprise transformation, and decarbonization on and off campus. Lastly, NCU continuously connecting with the blueprint of Taiwan's net-zero emissions by 2050.