With the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak around the world, it has once again shown that we need everyone to get involved in a massive effort to keep the world safe. 

NCKU would like to invite its global partner universities, government officials, and healthcare experts participate in this one-day virtual forum and learn from different perspectives and strategies in combating the virus.

2020 NCKU International Virtual Forum's tentative agenda is: https://ump.edu.vn/uploads/ckeditor/files/2020-NCKU-International-Virtual-Forum%20tentative%20agenda.pdf

Date, Time and the related infomation:

◆ Date | April 21, 2020

◆   Time | 9:30 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. (GMT+8, Taiwan Time)

◆   Live streaming | YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBroBViAvcHXiSfyjV1FzTQ/live

Topics:

• How can a democracy effectively respond to COVID-19: Lesson from Taiwan
• Building academic resilience in response to COVID-19: Case report of universities' measures in Asia
• Challenges for regional coordination and communication engagement: Challenges to a coordinated response to COVID-19
• Perspectives on global research partnerships: Scientific innovations to conquer COVID-19

Impact:

This forum will provide the first step in establishing a new collaborative platform for our partner universities, government officials, and healthcare experts to share best practices concerning this pandemic. Future discussions will also be planned for more comprehensive medical and technical cooperation and the development of new research alliances. Moreover, NCKU invites all of our partner universities to work with our existing platform consisting of more the one hundred member universities of the SATU Presidents’ Forum (or SATU for short) located in South and Southeast Asia and Taiwan.