Rural up - Innovative participation program for young fellow was awarded as 3rd place in Asia Regional Award. This presentation was presented in Reimagine Education 2015 Conference.

1. RURAL UP !
Innovative participation program for young fellow
Ching-Ching WU, Yung-Chuan KO
Soil and Water Conservation Bureau

2. Age <50 50~59 60~69 70~79 80~89 90~99 >100
People 269,870 264,983 280,795 373,797 198,903 25,542 516
Avg. 62.1years old

3. 5 years ago, only students/professors from
College/faculty of agricultural…

4. Rural communityStudents’ team
• Enthusiasm
• Creativities
• Mult. Skill/knowledge
• Enjoy challenge
• Desire to change
• Practical
Experience
• Resources
How

5. virtual/real platform
Rural Up
Rural
community
Students’
team
Grant
InstructorsTraining
Dev.
Project
support
Profession
Backup
Students’
network Gov.
support

6. Participant-centered
Collaboration with rural communities

7. OBSERVE
Question behind
Question

9. INNOVATION
Reuse of
agricultural waste

10. Not Just a Pen
Value-added
products
Communities’
employment
Startup
opportunity

11. VITALITY
Bring energy to
local residences

12. 63%
Universities in Taiwan
188
Departments
This year
Impact

13. College 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
1 Agriculture / Bio-Resources 9 9 26 7 20
2 Engineering 3 3 14 3 3
3 Design 2 1 13 26 29
4 Humanities and Social Sciences 4 2 6 6 6
5 Management / Business 0 5 7 13 11
6 Journalism and Communication 2 3 6 5 3
7 Tourism and Leisure 6 3 5 5 1
8 Science 2 1 3 0 0
9 General Education 1 1 1 1 1
10 Languages and Literature 1 0 1 1 5
11 Arts 0 0 1 1 2
12 Computer Science 0 0 1 2 0
13 Education / Medicine / Others 0 0 3 2 2
Total (teams) 30 28 87 72 83

14. New Cooperation
University and Community

15. 92.6%
trad.
classroom
are
insufficient
83.7%
equipped
new skills
67%
have
willingness
to return
Social Participatory Education

16. 圖片來源:廖怡雅
Rural UP

17. 圖片來源:蘋果日報

18. Thank you for
your attention