The SDGs proposed by the United Nations are intertwined with social, economic and environmental concerns while we human societies advance living conditions enabled by technologies.
As a higher education institute, our upmost mission is to cultivate talents for sustain human societies via various endeavors in research, teaching and learning, and cooperating with industries and communities. To respond to the achievement of SDGs, we went through the following four stages of cyclic activities: awareness, alignment, execution, and evaluation. In the awareness stage, we invited faculty in NTHU to tag their research projects, outcomes, and students’ theses corresponding to SDGs. By this widely involved efforts from faculty members, we aimed to draw their attentions on SDGs, especially to connect their research with SDGs. In the alignment stage, we started to align our efforts on achieving SDGS with the STARS (the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System) measures. In the execution stage, the administration started to set up policies to streamline the value flow from various resource integration to achieve measurable SDGs. In the evaluation stage, the outcome of SDGs achievement will be evaluated to revise the policies and execution in order to better achieve SDGs. On the web site, you will be able to browse the updated information regarding the efforts from the university in faculty research projects, courses, students’ participations, social practice, and campus sustainability corresponding to each SDGs. Moreover, we will keep the web site live to post events and news related to actions taken by NTHU to respond to SDGs.