Course and Degree Program Fostering young talent is a key step to mitigate global environmental challenges. National Taiwan University Research Center for Future Earth integrates NTU faculty members and resources across academic disciplines, affiliated departments, degree programs, and institutions to offer general education courses and a degree program. In partnership with Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica and Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), NTU RCFE will offer a Future Earth Ph.D. program in 2021 to cultivate new-generation scientists to promote research capacity in sustainability science and future environmental leaders to establish foresighted policies.
Our faculty members’ research projects are funded by government agencies and foundations. Students will have opportunities to participate in research across Earth science, climate change, environmental engineering, geography, and social science. Our students are encouraged and supported to attend international conferences and conduct research abroad to enhance their international experience. Training Program To promote Taiwan and our partnering countries’ capacity in disaster reduction and management, earthquake early warning, landslide monitoring, and environmental remediation, NTU RCFE will cooperate with Academia Sinica, National Applied Research Laboratories, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, National Center for Earthquake Engineering, and Tatun Volcano Observatory to offer training programs, workshops, and technology transfer to government agencies or private sectors.
Outreach Program The evolution of human society has become the primary force that has caused a rapid and unprecedented impact on the earth system after the Industrial Revolution. Since the scale of the anthropogenic impact on the environment is so enormous, scientists use the term “Anthropocene” to refer to the most recent geological epoch. To spread knowledge in sustainability science to the public and to exchange ideas across disciplines, NTU RCFE will host “Anthropocene Seminars.” Seminar topics align with global climate and environmental change, Earth science, social-ecological system and other issues that address contemporary environmental challenges.